Migrant and minority fertility

There is an ongoing discussion on the demographic consequences of migration to Europe and between European countries. The debate is not only related to migration and its impact on population development itself, but also to the processes of family formation and fertility of migrants and their descendants, as well as minority groups.

• To discuss the applicability of different demographic approaches: e.g. tempo vs quantum, period vs cohort to migrant fertility.
• To assess to what extent national and international data sources can be used for comparative analyses and to overcome problems related to different sampling criteria, definitions of migrants etc.
• To test traditional hypotheses of migrant and minority fertility within the current European context.
• To develop a comprehensive picture of the results from various research perspectives on migrant and minority fertility, such as the comparison between several migrant groups at one destination, a migrant group from one sending country at different destinations, emigrants from one sending country to stayers in the country of origin.
• Studying the impact of meso and macro-level discontinuities such as regional disparities on the labour market or economic crises, on family formation of migrants and minorities.
• To explore the relationship between other aspects of family dynamics, such as partnership formation, and fertility.
• To carry out comparative analyses between migrant generations in order to understand the patterns, causes and consequences of intergenerational change.

We hope that we can organize a regular conference in the second half of 2021 (or early 2022), depending on the conditions that the situation in the next year will have improved sufficiently and that in-person events are possible again. And, as for the previous occasions, we are planning to link the event with another special collection in an international journal. For now, we have postponed the CfP for this regular conference to next year.

For information please contact the members of the steering group: nadja.milewski@bib.bund.de; eleonora.mussino@sociology.su.se; elisabeth.kraus@bib.bund.de

Steering committee

Elisabeth Kraus

Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany

Nadja Milewski

Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany

Eleonora Mussino

Stockholm University, Sweden

Recent events:

• Virtual meeting of the “Working Group on Migrant and Minority Fertility in Europe” on Tuesday, 18 May 2021
• Conference Children in Migrant or Ethnic Minorities: Demographic and Social Processes in a Comparative Perspective, Rostock, Germany, 16-17 May 2019
• Side meeting at the European Population Conference 2018 in Brussels, Belgium, June 2018.
• Workshop on migrant and minority fertility in Hannover, February 2017
• Side meeting at the European Population Conference 2016 in Mainz, Germany, September 2016.

Recent publications

Publications by members of the Working Group:

2021

Mussino, E., Gabrielli, G., Ortensi, L.E. & Strozza, S. (2021). Fertility Intentions Within a 3-Year Time Frame: a Comparison Between Migrant and Native Italian Women. Int. Migration & Integration. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-020-00800-2

Tønnessen, M, Aradhya, M.S. & Mussino, E. (2021). How Assad changed population growth in Sweden and Norway: Syrian refugees’ impact on Nordic national and municipal demography. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244670

2020

Adsera, A. & Ferrer, A. M. (2020). Speeding up for a Son: Sex Ratio Imbalances by Birth Interval Among South Asian Migrants to Canada. Canadian studies in population, 47, 133–149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42650-020-00025-9.

Ammann Dula, E. (2020). Family Formation: an Intergenerational Comparison: The Relevance of Social Inequalities for Family Formation in a Transnational Migration Context. Int. Migration & Integration. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-020-00766-1

Baffour, B., Raymer, J. & Evans (2020). A. Recent Trends in Immigrant Fertility in Australia. Int. Migration & Integration. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-020-00767-0

Braack, M K. & Milewski, N. (2020). A different perspective on exogamy: Are non-migrant partners in mixed unions more liberal in their attitudes toward gender, family, and religion than other natives? Journal of Family Research, 31(3): 361–386. https://doi.org/10.3224/zff.v31i3.06

Braack, M K. & Milewski, N. (2020). An explorative approach to the cross-section of international migration and sexual preference: same-sex couples in Germany. Genus 76(33): 361–386. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-020-00102-6

Gatskova, K. & Kozlov, V. (2020), Doubling Up or Moving Out? The Effect of International Labor Migration on Household Size. International Migration, 58(2), 162-179, https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12629.

Impicciatore, R., Gabrielli, G., & Paterno, A. (2020). Migrants' Fertility in Italy: A Comparison Between Origin and Destination. European Journal of Population, 36(4), 799–825, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-019-09553-w.

Kuhnt, A.-K., & Krapf, S. (2020). Partnership Living Arrangements of Immigrants and Natives in Germany. Frontiers in Sociology, 5(86), 1-8, https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.538977.

Marynissen L., Mussino, E., Wood. J. & Duvander, A. (2019). Fathers’ Parental Leave Uptake in Belgium and Sweden: Self-Evident or Subject to Employment Characteristics?, Social Sciences, 8 (11), 312 https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8110312

Milewski, N. & Haug, S. (2020). Religious Diversity and Women’s Attitudes Toward Using Assisted Reproductive Technologies— Insights from a Pilot Study in Germany. Journal of Religion and Demography, 7: 150–168. https://doi.org/10.1163/2589742X-12347104

Nauck, B. (2020). Is Ethnic Retention a Result of Unmet Educational Aspirations? Academic Career and Ethnic Identity of Migrant Minority Youth in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Int. Migration & Integration. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-020-00760-7

Pailhé, A., Panico, L., & Heers, M. (2020). Being born to a single mother in France: trajectories of father’s involvement over the first year of life. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 11(1), 123‑149, https://doi.org/10.1332/175795919X15720984151059.

Tønnessen, M. & Mussino, E. (2020). Fertility patterns of migrants from low-fertility countries in Norway. Demographic Research 42, 859-874.

Tønnessen, M. & Wilson, B. (2020). Visualising Immigrant Fertility -- Profiles of Childbearing and their Implications for Migration Research. Int. Migration & Integration. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-020-00762-5