Patriarchy and fertility in Albania

Lerch, Mathias

doi:10.4054/demres.2013.29.6

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“…On the other hand, traditional social institutions have also gained renewed importance in social organisation due to the regulatory and political vacuum during the first crisis decade (Fisher 1999;Nixon 2009). Persistent traces of patriarchy in the public and family sphere continued to promote early marriages and high fertility (Lerch 2013b). Yet with the appearance of the one-child family model in cities and progressively postponed marriages, the TFR in 2006-2009 was half the level observed in 1990 (1.6, down from 3; Lerch 2013a).…”

Section: The Albanian Contextmentioning

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Does indirect exposure to international migration influence marriage and fertility in Albania?

Lerch

2015

J Pop Research

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Our knowledge of the interactions between international migration and fertility in sending countries is biased towards family members left behind, who constitute a minority and decreasing share of populations. We assess the potential for emigrants' social diffusion of low fertility into Albania and investigate how family behaviours are affected by indirect exposure to migration within the sending society, using data from multiple survey rounds. Effects arising from direct exposure within the family had a limited importance. Marriages were postponed and marital fertility was reduced because of the transformation of the larger social context, as indicated by the importance of community migrant networks and by women's increased aspirations, which are induced by the perception of the prospects and benefits of migration in the society at large. The effects of emigration on the fertility transition seem therefore to be independent of periodic fluctuations in population flows and their associated economic benefits.

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Section: The Albanian Contextmentioning

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Does indirect exposure to international migration influence marriage and fertility in Albania?

Lerch

2015

J Pop Research

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“…These exogamous marriage traditions in the patrilocal society of Albania were instrumental in circumventing governmental restrictions on internal movements under communist rule (Sjöberg 1994). After the fall of the regime, the society experienced a return to traditionalism (Nixon 2009), and persistent traces of patriarchy promoted early marriage and large families (Lerch 2013b). Thus, traditional patterns of family formation related to mobility may have sustained in-migrants' fertility level in cities.…”

Section: Age and Sex Selectivity Of Migration Flows During The 1990smentioning

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The Role of Migration in the Urban Transition: A Demonstration From Albania

Lerch

2014

Demography

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Although natural increase has been recognized as the main driver of postwar urban growth in developing countries, urban transition theory predicts a dominant role for population mobility in the early and late phases of the process. To account for this discrepancy between theory and empirical evidence, I demonstrate the complex role played by internal and international migration in the pattern of urban growth. Using a combination of indirect demographic estimations for postwar Albania, I show that the dominant contribution of natural increase from the 1960s to the 1990s was induced by a limited urban in-migration; this was due to the restrictions on leaving the countryside imposed under communist rule and, thereafter, to the redirection abroad of rural out-migrants. Although young adults in cities also engaged in international movements and significantly reduced their fertility, the indirect effects of rural-to-urban migration attenuated the fall in urban birth rates and postponed demographic aging. In-migrants swelled urban cohorts of reproductive age and delayed the urban fertility transition. Despite a high level of urban natural increase in Albania, I thus conclude that the role of population mobility dominated in the early and most recent phases of urban growth. The results also have implications for our understanding of demographic processes during the second urban transition in developing countries.

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“…Issues relating to the intergenerational and gender relations in a woman's family. The choice of such questions was mainly based on the concept of "patriarchal" family structure (Gruber and Szołtysek 2012;Lerch 2013). Questions were asked, inter alia, whether the woman's decision about marriage was independent or her marriage was initiated by her elder relatives; whether she worked and studied after marriage, whether she can make life decisions (major purchases, new job, migration to another region, etc.)…”

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Marriage in Ingushetia: intergenerational changes and their possible causes

Kazenin¹

2019

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The article deals with marriage of women of different birth cohorts in Ingushetia in the post-Soviet period. The results of the quantitative survey of women aged 16–44 years in the Republic of Ingushetia in 2019 are analyzed. The analysis is based on proportional risk models, as well as logistic regressions for the probability to enter first marriage for a woman at different ages. The analysis showed that among women in Ingushetia whose marriageable and reproductive age was during 1990s–2010s the probability of marriage (both during the entire reproductive period and by specific ages) is higher for younger generations. This trend is not consistent with the all-Russian pattern. Various explanations of the dynamics of marriage in Ingushetia are presented. The author argues that the rise of marriage rates in this republic followed the stabilization of the political and social situation after the armed confrontation in the neighboring Republic of Chechnya was put to the end.

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Patriarchy and fertility in Albania

Cited by 24 publications

References 46 publications

Does indirect exposure to international migration influence marriage and fertility in Albania?

Does indirect exposure to international migration influence marriage and fertility in Albania?

The Role of Migration in the Urban Transition: A Demonstration From Albania

Marriage in Ingushetia: intergenerational changes and their possible causes

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