Visualising Immigrant Fertility -- Profiles of Childbearing and their Implications for Migration Research

Tønnessen, Marianne; Wilson, Ben

doi:10.1007/s12134-020-00762-5

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“…Finally, the differences by nativity status within Asian groups may be related to migration effects on fertility, which could lead to the postponement of childbearing until after migration [26]. Prior research has suggested that some immigrant women, depending on their age at migration, have higher fertility compared to their non-immigrant counterparts [27]; especially if these pregnancies are more likely to be intended, immigrants' use of abortion services may be lower than non-immigrants', as found in this analysis. That said, this study does not examine age at migration or fertility desires and further research is needed to assess the influence of tempo or migration effects in this population.…”

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Differences in Abortion Rates between Asian Populations by Country of Origin and Nativity Status in New York City, 2011–2015

Desai

Jones

2021

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Despite the size of the Asian population in New York City (NYC) and the city’s robust abortion surveillance system, abortion-related estimates for this population have not been calculated previously. This study examined the use of abortion services among specific Asian groups in NYC from 2011–2015. Using NYC surveillance data, we estimated abortion rates for Asians, disaggregated by five country of origin groups and nativity status, and for other major racial/ethnic groups. We compared rates between groups and over time. From 2014–2015, the abortion rate for Asian women in NYC was 12.6 abortions per 1000 women aged 15–44 years, lower than the rates for other major racial/ethnic groups. Among country of origin groups, Indian women had the highest rate (30.5 abortions per 1000 women), followed by Japanese women (17.0), Vietnamese women (13.0), Chinese women (8.8), and Korean women (5.1). Rates were higher for U.S.-born Asian groups compared to foreign-born groups, although the differential varied by country of origin. The abortion rate declined or remained steady for nearly all Asian groups from 2011–2015. These findings reinforce the importance of disaggregating data on this population at multiple levels and begin to provide much-needed evidence on the use of abortion services among Asian groups.

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Differences in Abortion Rates between Asian Populations by Country of Origin and Nativity Status in New York City, 2011–2015

Desai

Jones

2021

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“…There is also evidence of adaptation from below; in other words, migrants moving from a country with low fertility to one with higher fertility (see Nahmias, 2004, on Former-Soviet Union migrants in Israel; and Tønnessen & Mussino, 2020, on non-family migrants from Germany, Lithuania, and Poland in Norway). The adaptation hypothesis has some shortcomings; for example, for migrants who have more than two children prior to migration it is impossible to adapt to (below) replacement fertility levels in the host country (Adserà et al 2012;Tønnessen & Wilson, 2020), or the birth may be strictly connected to the migration (e.g., Hoem & Nedoluzhko, 2016). These issues can be dealt with, however, by testing the hypothesis across several migrant generations moving from low-to high-fertility countries.…”

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Childbearing among Polish migrant women and their descendants in Sweden: an origin-destination country approach

2022

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This paper examines the childbearing behaviour of Polish migrant women and their descendants in Sweden. Also considering stayers in the country of origin, we rely on a country-of-origin and country-of-destination approach in a careful examination regarding the relevance of three hypotheses on migrant fertility: the socialisation, selection, and adaptation hypotheses. We analyse the transitions to first and second births based on a piecewise exponential model, using Swedish register data and the Polish Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) first wave. The results support the socialisation hypothesis, as the Polish stayers and the first-generation Polish migrants have their first child at younger ages and are less likely to remain childless than the other groups but are also more likely to not proceed to a second child, unlike the Swedish natives and the second generation. We find partial support for the selection hypothesis. Descriptively, we observe signs of selection into migration based on education, cohort, and marital status. Additionally, our study shows that the impact of marriage varies between stayers and migrants, in the first-birth transition, suggesting selection into migration when it comes to unobserved characteristics as well. The adaptation hypothesis is also supported, as the fertility behaviour of the second generation more closely resembles that of the Swedish natives than that of the first generation and differs more from that of the Polish stayers in terms of both quantum and timing of the first and second births.

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“…There are various hypotheses used to study immigrant fertility behaviours namely, (childhood) socialisation, adaptation, selection, disruption, interrelation of events and others (Milewski 2010;Tønnessen/Wilson 2020). The fi rst four of these behaviours are the most widely discussed in demography literature.…”

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Partnership Transitions among Turkish Immigrants and their Descendants in Western Germany

Erdogan¹,

Özgören

2022

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Adaptation to host country behaviours encompasses both individual and social change, bringing about rising diversity issues in the host society and societal shifts in the country of origin. This study aims to detect whether Turkish immigrants and their descendants converge towards or diverge from the partnership practices of the native-born population in Western Germany. Specifically, transitions from (1) singlehood to the first partnership, (2) singlehood to the first marriage, (3) singlehood to the first cohabitation, (4) cohabitation to marriage and (5) marriage to divorce are investigated. Data from the Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (pairfam) survey for the period of 2008-2018 are used, applying Kaplan-Meier survival estimations and Cox proportional hazard models. This is the first study that includes natives, immigrants and their descendants simultaneously in an analysis of extensive partnership transitions covering practices of cohabitation, marriage and divorce and to investigate the proportionality assumption in Cox models. We formulate four research hypotheses based on the hypotheses of socialisation, adaptation and the cultural maintenance and segmented assimilation theory. Supporting our first hypothesis, our findings indicate a difference in partnership patterns between both first- and second-generation immigrants and natives, except for the finding that second-generation immigrants resemble the native pattern in their transition to the first union (including both cohabitation and marriage). Immigrants and their descendants tend to marry directly and have lower divorce hazard ratios than their native counterparts, while consensual unions are uncommon among Turkish immigrants. As suggested by our second hypothesis, the extent of the divergence varies across partnership transitions. Finally, our results provide support for our third hypothesis rather than the fourth in that partnership transition of Turkish immigrants’ descendants more closely resembles that of first-generation immigrants compared to natives.

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Visualising Immigrant Fertility -- Profiles of Childbearing and their Implications for Migration Research

Cited by 12 publications

References 78 publications

Differences in Abortion Rates between Asian Populations by Country of Origin and Nativity Status in New York City, 2011–2015

Differences in Abortion Rates between Asian Populations by Country of Origin and Nativity Status in New York City, 2011–2015

Childbearing among Polish migrant women and their descendants in Sweden: an origin-destination country approach

Partnership Transitions among Turkish Immigrants and their Descendants in Western Germany

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