Family dynamics of international migrants and their descendants
- Autores: Elisabeth Kraus
- Directores de la Tesis: Pau Baizán Muñoz (dir. tes.), Amparo González Ferrer (codir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( España ) en 2017
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Helga de Valk (presid.), Jose Maria Gonzalez Prieto (secret.), Gunnar Andersson (voc.)
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
This dissertation explores the relationship between two demographic phenomena—migration and fertility—by focussing on several aspects of the link between the two across the different empirical chapters. The thesis consists of three independent research papers that are all tied together by the same theoretical framework that has been proposed in the literature to explain the link between migration and fertility (selection, disruption, interrelation of events, socialization and adaptation). Chapter 2 and 3 analyse the fertility behaviour of Senegalese migrants in Europe. While Chapter 2 takes a descriptive approach to family trajectories of male and female migrants and how they evolve in the time prior and following migration, Chapter 3 compares the fertility behaviour of migrant and non-migrant couples. Finally, Chapter 4 focuses on adolescent Latin American child migrants in Spain and their fertility preferences compared to native Spanish youth. The findings of the dissertation contribute to our understanding of the interplay between migration and fertility, and provide theoretical and methodological implications for the study of migrant fertility.
