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Lessons from the pandemic: Gender inequality in childcare and the emergence of a gender mental health gap among parents in Germany (by Nicole Hiekel, Mine Kühn) Demographic Research (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Nicole Hiekel, Mine Kühn
Background: The gender gap in mental health that emerged in Germany during the pandemic grew disproportionally among partnered parents. The question arises as to why mothers – compared to fathers – experienced greater declines in mental health when guiding their families through the pandemic. Objective: This study investigates how changes in childcare arrangements affected parental mental health during
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Migration and inflation nexus under high and low interest rate environments: Some panel data evidence International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Afees A. Salisu, Rabia Abdul Muhammad, Mojeed O. Saliu
This study analyzes the relationship between migration and inflation as well as the intervening role of interest rates in selected OECD countries from 1995 to 2020, covering periods of turbulence and tranquillity. The study finds that migration increases inflation in the short run but lowers it in the long run. In other words, the inflationary effect of migration is a long‐run phenomenon. Additionally
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Are Syrians in Türkiye vulnerable to ‘epistemic injustice’?: A ‘narrative inquiry’ in the case of Bursa International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 İbrahim Oğulcan Erayman, Ahmed Burak Çağlar, Derda Küçükalp, Günhan Gayırhan
This study examines whether Syrians under temporary protection status in Türkiye vulnerable to epistemic injustice from the host society, exploring implications and transformation of these approaches. It provides a framework for understanding how the host society perceives Syrian refugees, assessing credibility within identified narrative motifs. The study focuses on the host community's narrative
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Back for good? Return aspirations of immigrants in the Netherlands International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Özge Elif Özer, Adrien Remund, Matthijs Kalmijn
Return migration is a complex process increasingly discussed in academic and policy circles. This study calls on complementary concepts and theories of migration, such as transnationalism, integration and family ties, to explore the return migration aspirations of first‐generation immigrants in the Netherlands. It aims to examine to what extent an immigrant's contacts with their origin country, proximity
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Fertility and Family Dynamics in the Aftermath of the COVID‐19 Pandemic Population and Development Review (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Natalie Nitsche, Joshua Wilde
When the COVID‐19 pandemic began in early 2020, speculation was rife both in public and academic spheres over its possible effects on birth rates and partnership behavior. Now, over four years later, we still know surprisingly little about the effect of COVID‐19 on fertility and family dynamics. In this paper, we outline three main takeaways from the scientific literature produced on this topic in
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The Demography of Crisis‐Driven Outflows from Venezuela Population and Development Review (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Jenny Garcia Arias
The Venezuelan exodus represents the largest known displacement of people in recent Latin American history. The regional crisis caused by this mass Venezuelan migration drove the development of multiple interagency initiatives (such as the R4V platform) as well as academic attempts to keep track of outflow intensity. However, little is known about the age and gender composition of the emigrants since
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Overeducation of migrants in Lombardy: A trend analysis 2008–2021 International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Sara Maiorino, Laura Terzera
This study examines the determinants of the overeducation phenomenon among migrants in Lombardy, Italy, and how it has evolved over the last 14 years. The target population consists of legal and undocumented individuals with original citizenship from countries defined as ‘high migratory pressure countries’, who declared themselves as ‘employed’. Italy has one of the highest rates of overeducation among
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Household migration decisions: Understanding Ethiopians irregular migration from Kembata‐Tembaro zone to the Republic of South Africa International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Hailu Megersa, Tesfaye Tafesse
This research intends to shed light on the household migration decision‐making process of Ethiopian irregular migrants heading to the Republic of South Africa. Data were drawn from a cross‐sectional household survey (n = 659) and in‐depth interviews (n = 24) conducted in 2022. Descriptive statistics, binary logistic regressions and thematic analysis were employed to analyse the data. Our findings reveal
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Remittance as reactive transnationalism: The role of perceived unfairness among immigrants in South Korea International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Nari Yoo, Sou Hyun Jang
Despite numerous studies on the economic transnational connections of immigrants, focusing mainly on remittances to their home countries, the remittance behaviours and related factors of immigrants in South Korea, a country experiencing increased racial and ethnic diversity, remain relatively understudied. Applying a resource‐dependent and reactive transnationalism framework, this study examines the
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Climate change and fertility desires: An experimental study among university students in Belgium and Italy (by Sara Bisi, Nadia Sturm, Jan Van Bavel) Demographic Research (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Sara Bisi, Nadia Sturm, Jan Van Bavel
Background: As more people recognise the challenges of climate change, an increasing number are trying to reduce their ecological footprint. However, it remains uncertain whether this extends to decisions about having children. Despite public debate, scholarly research remains scarce. Objective: Our aim is to explore whether and how vignettes about climate change impact short-term fertility desires
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Are Contraceptive Method Preferences Stable? Measuring Change in the Preferred Method among Kenyan Women Studies in Family Planning (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Carolina Cardona, Dana Sarnak, Alison Gemmill, Peter Gichangi, Mary Thiongo, Philip Anglewicz
Contraceptive preferences are important for reproductive outcomes, such as contraceptive continuation and pregnancy. Current approaches to measuring reproductive preferences in population surveys are limited to exploring only fertility preferences and implicitly assume that contracepting people are using a method they want. We know that people change their fertility preferences over the life course
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The Global Adolescent Fertility Decline is Counteracted by Increasing Teen Births in Sub‐Saharan Africa Studies in Family Planning (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Thomas Spoorenberg, Ellen Øen Carlsen, Martin Flatø, Marcin Stonawski, Vegard Skirbekk
There is a lack of understanding of the persistence of elevated teen fertility rates in certain regions and countries, in contrast to the significant decline observed in other regions globally. This report considers fertility trends among 15‐ to 19‐year olds in the period 1950–2020 and explores potential driving factors behind the significant shifts that occurred over this period. The countries where
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‘They must know their rights’– reflecting on privacy, informed consent and the digital agency of asylum seekers and refugees in border contexts International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Claudia Lintner
The article questions digital agency as a subjective experience of refugees when crossing Europe's external and internal borders. More concretely, the article asks how refugees experience digital agency, and how this concrete experience is constituted in specific border practices. In doing so, it examines the contradictions that arise between European laws and human rights in the context of border
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Worlds in Motion Redux? Expanding Migration Theories and Their Interconnections Population and Development Review (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Fernando Riosmena
Migration theorizing has coalesced around sets encompassing several frameworks. Despite many contributions of these collections, contemporary migration theorizing exhibits three important shortcomings, which this paper aims to address. First, sets of theories have traditionally not explicitly and jointly addressed fundamental questions in migration, namely (i) key motivations beyond those related to
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The call of the green: The role of green spaces in residential relocations across the life course in Germany Population, Space and Place (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Tetiana Dovbischuk, Stefanie Kley
Research on the benefits of green living environments in urban settings has gained attention, but comprehensive comparisons across life course phases remain scarce. Furthermore, the importance of green spaces in the context of residential relocations has been underexplored. This study addresses this research gap by testing hypotheses derived from a general theory of well‐being generation and a three‐stage
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Issue Information Population, Space and Place (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-10
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Does Inequality Have Momentum? The Implications of Convex Inequality Regimes for Mortality Dynamics Population and Development Review (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Arun S. Hendi
For decades, educational inequalities in mortality have widened and mortality among the least educated has stalled, even as overall mortality has improved, and an increasing proportion of young people have completed secondary and tertiary education. While researchers recognize that these trends are in part related to changing selection into education groups, there has been no unifying framework for
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Exploring the impacts of COVID‐19 on births in Italy, 2020−2022 Population, Space and Place (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Gianpiero Dalla‐Zuanna, Tommaso Di‐Fonzo, Daniele Girolimetto, Marzia Loghi
During the different phases of the COVID‐19 pandemic, conception trends in developed countries varied in profoundly different ways. Scholars have proposed a variety of explanations for these differences, often related to the particular socioeconomic context and social groups of a given nation, highlighting the need for country‐specific, in‐depth analyses. Italy was one of the countries where the number
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The ‘Coronavirus Crisis’ and xenophobia in South Africa: How did the pandemic affect anti‐immigrant sentiment? International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Steven Lawrence Gordon
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on xenophobia in South Africa is little understood. The Behavioural Immune System (BIS) theory would predict that hostility towards immigrants increases during periods of heightened pathogen stress. This BIS‐hypothesis is tested against the relative strength of three other possible drivers of anti‐immigrant sentiment. These included anger at the national lockdown
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Stay away or stay in? Exploring settlement decisions of economic migrants and war refugees from Ukraine in the structural approach framework International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Olena Shelest‐Szumilas, Marcin Wozniak
A sound understanding of immigrants' settlement intentions and the factors that influence them is crucial for developing successful integration policies and predicting the economic performance of the host country. It can also help us better comprehend migration patterns and individual decisions. Drawing upon a structural approach, we examined selected phenomena such as a skills mismatch and perceived
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The ontology, measurement, and features of temporary internal migration in selected countries of Asia Asian Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Ying Wang, Elin Charles-Edwards
Temporary internal migration is an important livelihood strategy but there have been inconsistencies in its conceptualisation and measurement which limit understanding of the phenomenon across dive...
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Diaspora and development: The IOM's role in diaspora mapping in Bosnia and Herzegovina International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Dženeta Karabegović
Diaspora governance strategies are part of an increasingly vibrant academic and policy debate. International organisations play a significant role in promoting diaspora institutions, collaborating with home states, diaspora communities, and other stakeholders. In post‐conflict states, the involvement, and evolving roles of international organisations, among a variety of actors in diaspora institution
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“Knowledge is confused”: Rethinking pull factors in light of asylum and refugee integration policies International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Colleen Boland, Daniel Morente, Elena Sanchez‐Montijano
The degree to which asylum or refugee integration policy influences a forcibly displaced individual's decision to settle in one European country versus another remains understudied, yet highly visible in policy and public debate. This work asks what explains this decision‐making via Spanish case study. The authors analyse 30 in‐depth interviews with persons seeking international protection from Spain
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The Last Bastion is Falling: Survey Evidence of the New Family Reality in Italy Population and Development Review (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Arnstein Aassve, Letizia Mencarini, Elena Pirani, Daniele Vignoli
The study makes use of the 2016 Household Multipurpose Survey of Family, Social Subjects, and Life Cycle to demonstrate that family‐related behavior is now rapidly changing in Italy. The country is often taken as a stronghold of traditionalism. We, instead, highlight recent and substantial changes in cohabitation, dissolution, and nonmarital fertility in the country. In doing so, we carefully assess
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No End to Hypergamy when Considering the Full Married Population Population and Development Review (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Daniela R. Urbina, Margaret Frye, Sara Lopus
The worldwide expansion of female educational opportunities in recent decades has prompted demographers to assess the frequency with which women marry up (hypergamy) or down (hypogamy) with regard to education. A series of articles documented dramatic and nearly universal declines in hypergamy over time and across female educational advantage. However, this previous work investigated hypergamy only
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Unhealthy Assimilation or Compositional Differences? Disentangling Immigrants' Mental Health Trajectories with Residence Duration Population and Development Review (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Claudia Brunori
Studies have often found that recent immigrants have better mental health than natives, whereas established immigrants have no such advantage. This could be interpreted as evidence for immigrants' mental health deteriorating with residence duration—the “unhealthy assimilation hypothesis.” However, the methods used in the literature are unfit to assess whether the mental health differences between recent
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Spousal Agreement on Sex Preferences for Children and Gender Gaps in Children's Education Population and Development Review (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Vida Maralani, Candas Pinar
Using data from 60 countries, we measure how much couples agree on sex preferences for children and whether differences in sex preferences are associated with gender gaps in children's education. Results show extensive disagreement in sex preferences for children, with husbands far more likely to want more sons but their wives more likely to prefer having equal numbers of boys and girls, wanting more
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Developing and implementing the UN's probabilistic population projections as a milestone for Bayesian demography: An interview with Adrian Raftery (by Monica Alexander, Adrian E. Raftery) Demographic Research (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Monica Alexander, Adrian E. Raftery
Background: Population projections for all countries are published by the United Nations Population Division (UNPD) every two years as part of the World Population Prospects (WPP). Since 2015, probabilistic population projections have been published as part of WPP, produced using Bayesian statistical models. Central to this methodological change was a team of statisticians at the University of Washington
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Personal and Social Worries Associated with the Likelihood of Having Children Population and Development Review (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Kateryna Golovina, Markus Jokela
Previous studies showed that worries about the economic situation and job security are associated with childbearing, but evidence is scarce on whether worries about other personal and social issues are also related to childbearing. Drawing on the German Socio‐Economic Panel Study, this study examined the relationship between worries about various personal and social issues and the likelihood of having
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Redefining family structures: Births out of wedlock in 21st century Greece Population, Space and Place (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Vasilis S. Gavalas, Michail Raftakis
This study explores Greece's unique position as the country with the lowest nonmarital childbearing rate in Europe. The socio‐demographic profile of mothers is being analysed in three categories of marital status: married, unmarried, and in civil partnership. Unpublished data, custom‐made exclusively for this study from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), have been used, spanning from 2019
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Afghan immigrants' perceptions of integration policies in Iran International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Leila Zandi‐Navgran, Rasoul Sadeghi, Hossein Afrasiabi, Abbas Askari‐Nodoushan
In the contemporary global context, the challenge of integrating immigrants into host societies has gained prominence. This paper delves into the perceptions and experiences of Afghan immigrants in Iran regarding immigration policies and laws. Employing a constructivist grounded theory methodology, the study aims to uncover participants' interpretations and the meanings attributed to immigration policies
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Escape from education fever?: Impact of migration on child education practice International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Yong Moon Jung
An extraordinary interest in education has a historical and cultural foundation in Korea, but its harmful nature has created education emigration of Korean parents. This study sought to track if and how the culturally embedded education fever changed over migration generations. To this end, this study compared three different parent groups: staying‐put parents in the origin country (Korean parents
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Using Respondent-Driven Sampling to measure abortion safety in restrictive contexts: Results from Kaya (Burkina Faso) and Nairobi (Kenya) (by Lonkila Moussa Zan, Onikepe Owolabi, Adama Baguiya, Ramatou Ouedraogo, Martin Bangha, Caron Kim, Clémentine Rossier) Demographic Research (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Lonkila Moussa Zan, Onikepe Owolabi, Adama Baguiya, Ramatou Ouedraogo, Martin Bangha, Caron Kim, Clémentine Rossier
Background: Due to restrictive laws and limited service provision, globally the majority of induced abortions are unsafe and remain largely undocumented, despite their negative impact on women’s health. Objective: The purpose of this study is to test Respondent-Driven Sampling – used previously in HIV research – for abortion, and to measure abortion safety characteristics in the small town of Kaya
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Changes in recruitment plans of Polish enterprises caused by the outbreak of war in Ukraine International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Ewa Rollnik‐Sadowska, Katarzyna Dębkowska, Andrzej Kubisiak
The aim of the article is to identify the influence of the first months of Russian aggression against Ukraine on the recruitment plans of enterprises in the country receiving refugees, as exemplified by the Polish case study. Quantitative research was conducted among 500 Polish enterprises. Based on monthly measurements, before and after the outbreak of war in Ukraine, information was received from
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Return intentions among Ukrainian refugees in Europe: A Cross‐National Study International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Frank van Tubergen, Gusta G. Wachter, Yuliya Kosyakova, Irena Kogan
This study examines the return intentions of Ukrainian refugee women who fled to various European countries following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. By analysing data from the cross‐national OneUA survey, which included over 18,000 respondents in eight European countries, this research investigates the interplay of contextual, compositional, and cross‐level interaction effects on their intentions
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Fleeing Ukraine: The Forced Migration Journeys of Black African Students Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Lindsey N. Kingston, Igho Ekakitie
This study utilizes qualitative interview data to chronicle the migration journeys of 15 Black African international students who escaped the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. This research address...
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Ugandan women and sex trafficking in Istanbul International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Emel Coşkun, Lucy Williams
This paper demonstrates how the social construction of gender shapes women's migration choices and post‐migration experience using the example of Ugandan women migrants in Istanbul, Türkiye. Building on an ethnographic case study, we reveal how Ugandan women negotiate and find agency within oppressive structures that force them into debt, into “illegality”, and limit their opportunities for safe and
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Predictive utility of key family planning indicators on dynamic contraceptive outcomes: Results from longitudinal surveys in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Uganda, and Côte d'Ivoire (by Amy Tsui, Dana Sarnak, Phil Anglewicz, Fredrick Makumbi, Georges Guiella, Peter Gichangi, Rosine Mosso, Saifuddin Ahmed) Demographic Research (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Amy Tsui, Dana Sarnak, Phil Anglewicz, Fredrick Makumbi, Georges Guiella, Peter Gichangi, Rosine Mosso, Saifuddin Ahmed
Background: Many health and demographic surveys routinely collect information on women’s exposure to family planning (FP) messages, counseling on contraceptive side effects, discussions about FP with providers, contraceptive decision-making autonomy, and the desire for additional children. Several studies have shown significant associations with current contraceptive use status from these cross-sectional
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Gender inequality and subjective well-being amongst professional women in East and Southeast Asia: a study of eight societies Asian Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-15 Liuyan Jiang, Vincent Chua, Daniel Xue Wei Wong, Dong-Kyun Im
The dynamic combination of an increasingly progressive gender revolution in modern Asia and cultural characteristics that include the hierarchisation of gender, especially in East Asia, has the pot...
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Housework sharing among older couples: explaining the gendered division of domestic labour in older age in South Korea Asian Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Seung-Eun Cha, Jooyeoun Suh, Kamila Kolpashnikova
Our study investigates the relationship between family models and housework division among older couples. Using the 2019 Korean Time Use Survey, we analysed wives’ share of housework in four family...
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The Average Uneven Mortality index: Building on the ‘e-dagger’ measure of lifespan inequality (by Marco Bonetti, Ugofilippo Basellini, Andrea Nigri) Demographic Research (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Marco Bonetti, Ugofilippo Basellini, Andrea Nigri
Background: In recent years, lifespan inequality has become an important indicator of population health. Uncovering the statistical properties of lifespan inequality measures can provide novel insights on the study of mortality. Methods: We introduce the ‘Average Uneven Mortality’ (AUM) index, a novel mortality indicator for the study of mortality patterns and lifespan inequality. We prove some new
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Open science practices in demographic research: An appraisal (by Ugofilippo Basellini) Demographic Research (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Ugofilippo Basellini
Background: In the light of recent concerns about the reliability of scientific research, the open science movement has attracted considerable attention and interest from a variety of sources, including researchers, research institutions, the business industry, intergovernmental organizations, the media and the public. However, the current extent of openness in demographic research remains unknown
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Uncovering disability-free grandparenthood in Italy between 1998 and 2016 using gender-specific decomposition (by Margherita Moretti, Elisa Cisotto, Alessandra De Rose) Demographic Research (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Margherita Moretti, Elisa Cisotto, Alessandra De Rose
Background: Decreasing fertility rates and increasing lifespan affect the time grandparents and grandchildren co-exist. Any changes in the time and length of grandparenthood could alter the quality and the direction of intergenerational exchange. In Italy, a country in which grandparents constitute a fundamental resource for the provision of childcare and where families are the main source of support
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Two-dimensional contour decomposition: Decomposing mortality differences into initial difference and trend components by age and cause of death (by Dmitri Jdanov, Domantas Jasilionis, Vladimir Shkolnikov) Demographic Research (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Dmitri Jdanov, Domantas Jasilionis, Vladimir Shkolnikov
Background: Conventional decomposition analysis identifies contributions from differences in covariates in total between-population difference, but does not address the question of the historical roots of the differences. To close this gap, the contour decomposition method was proposed. Since 2017, when it was published, this method has been successfully applied in several papers. Nevertheless, it
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The Bordering Practices of Canadian Newspapers (2011-2022): “Canada is the Hope of the World” Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Juanne Clarke
This paper is based on a frame analysis of the media portrayal of Syrian refugees in the three highest circulating Canadian newspapers from 2011 to 2022. From 2011 to 2013 the focus was on the conf...
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The variability of age at first marriage across birth cohort and education level: the case of Taiwan Asian Population Studies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-02 Hao-Chun Cheng, Philip N. Cohen
The variability of age at first marriage has implications for the destandardisation of life course and the deinstitutionalisation of the marriage institution. Previous studies, based on Western soc...
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Decomposition analysis of disparities in infant mortality rates across 27 US states (by Benjamin Sosnaud) Demographic Research (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Benjamin Sosnaud
Background: Infant mortality rates (IMRs) vary dramatically across US states. A potential explanation centers on compositional differences in births from sociodemographic groups with a high risk of infant mortality. Objective: I seek to identify the contribution of key compositional factors to state-level disparities in IMRs using a series of Kitagawa–Blinder–Oaxaca decompositions. Methods: Drawing
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Melissa S.KearneyThe Two Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling BehindUniversity of Chicago Press, 2023, 240 p., $25.00. Population and Development Review (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 SARAH R. HAYFORD
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Claire L.WendlandPartial Stories: Maternal Death from Six AnglesUniversity of Chicago Press, 2022, 356 p., $35.00. Population and Development Review (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 SANYU A. MOJOLA
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Assessing Timely Migration Trends Through Digital Traces: A Case Study of the UK Before Brexit International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Francesco Rampazzo, Jakub Bijak, Agnese Vitali, Ingmar Weber, Emilio Zagheni
Digital trace data presents an opportunity for promptly monitoring shifts in migrant populations. This contribution aims to determine whether the number of European migrants in the United Kingdom (UK) declined between March 2019 and March 2020, using weekly estimates derived from the Facebook Advertising Platform. The collected data is disaggregated according to age, level of education, and country
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Agricultural crisis, refugee crisis, or health crisis? Migrant seasonal workers in Italian agriculture during the COVID pandemic International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Pietro Cingolani
The concept of crisis has been widely used to describe European social phenomena which have become acute and unmanageable in recent years. Exceptionality and emergency have become attributes of the political strategies developed to address the economic, social, and environmental unsustainability of industrial farming; the flow of forced migrants; and the COVID‐19 pandemic. This article is based on
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Which definition of migration better fits Facebook ‘expats’? A response using Mexican census data (by Tania Varona, Claudia Masferrer, Victoria Prieto Rosas, Martín Pedemonte) Demographic Research (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Tania Varona, Claudia Masferrer, Victoria Prieto Rosas, Martín Pedemonte
Background: Data from social media have emerged as an auxiliary source for real-time information on migrant populations. Facebook users’ tagged ‘expat’ data – an ‘expat’ being someone who lived in country x but now lives in country y – has been used to estimate immigrants and its quality assessment has relied on household surveys and UNDESA migration estimates. Objective: Using the census as the gold
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Integrating Traditional and Social Media Data to Predict Bilateral Migrant Stocks in the European Union International Migration Review (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Dilek Yildiz, Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, Guy J. Abel, Ingmar Weber, Emilio Zagheni, Cloé Gendronneau, Stijn Hoorens
Although up-to-date information on the nature and extent of migration within the European Union (EU) is important for policymaking, timely and reliable statistics on the number of EU citizens residing in or moving across other member states are difficult to obtain. In this paper, we develop a statistical model that integrates data on EU migrant stocks using traditional sources such as census, population
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The buying of freedom: Migrant workers and the “Azad” Visa in the Persian Gulf1 International Migration (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Zahra Babar
The six monarchies of the Persian Gulf are considered to be the world's third largest hub of international migration, having over the decades drawn millions of labour migrants to occupy a range of jobs across all tiers of the labour market. Despite decades of an unabated inward flow of foreign workers, none of the regional governments consider themselves to be destinations for permanent settlement
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Deservingness Perceptions Toward Refugees: A Gender Perspective Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Anselm Fliethmann, Verena Seibel, Daniel Degen
Refugee men are found to be less deserving of government support than refugee women. However, is this still the case if they engage in economic reciprocal behavior and attitudes? Following theories...
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Machine Discriminating: Automated Speech Recognition Biases in Refugee Interviews Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Tuba Bircan, Duha Ceylan
This study scrutinizes Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) software, a powerful instrument to expedite the translation process, and their unintended bias against Arabic speakers, particularly refuge...
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The effect of migration and time spent abroad on migrants’ health: A home/host country perspective (by Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Eralba Cela, Eleonora Trappolini) Demographic Research (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Eralba Cela, Eleonora Trappolini
Background: It is widely recognized that migrants are generally healthy upon arrival, but for several reasons, a longer length of stay abroad can have detrimental effects on health. Empirical evidence suggests the use of different comparison groups (natives in the destination country; co-nationals in the origin country) to analyse migrants’ health, depending on research aims and data availability.