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Fertility Postponement, Economic Uncertainty, and the Increasing Income Prerequisites of Parenthood Population and Development Review (IF 10.515) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Daniël van Wijk, Francesco C. Billari
Rich societies have witnessed a postponement of parenthood over the past two decades, and young adults’ economic conditions are often invoked to explain this trend. However, macro-level trends in both “subjective” perceptions of economic uncertainty and “objective” measures of actual income provide no satisfactory explanation for the postponement of parenthood. We propose a potential solution to this
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Exploring the difference: Immigrant peers and the imagination of natives International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Ana Alanis‐Amaya, Carlos Vargas‐Silva
Using data for the United States, we explore how interactions with immigrants during school age affect imagination during adulthood for native children. The analysis uses The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health survey and focuses on the impact of differences in the number of immigrants across cohorts within schools. Results suggest that exposure to immigrant classmates has positive
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The Causes and Consequences of Administrative Burdens in the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (IF 2.087) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Tihomir Sabchev, Ian Hennessey
This article explores the administrative burdens that refugee sponsors experience in their interaction with the state in the context of the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program. Drawing...
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Evaluation of Emergency Contraceptive Pill Use with Health Management Information Systems Data in Pakistan Studies in Family Planning (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Shiza Farid, Khan Mohammed, Kristin Bietsch, Priya Emmart
According to the WHO, all clients should have access to a range of contraceptive methods, including at least one short‐term, one long‐term, one permanent, and one emergency method of contraception. While there are data on the contraceptive method mix available for many low‐ and middle‐income countries, there are limited data on emergency contraception (EC). This is likely due to some surveys not routinely
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Henry Kissinger on Population and National Security Population and Development Review (IF 10.515) Pub Date : 2024-03-13
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The Missing Millions: Uncovering the Burden of Covid‐19 Cases and Deaths in the African Region Population and Development Review (IF 10.515) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Tara McKay, Rachel Sullivan Robinson, Serena Musungu, Nana Addo Padi‐Adjirackor, Nicole Angotti
Early in 2020, experts warned of the devastating toll that COVID‐19 would have on African countries. By the close of 2021, however, Africa remained one of the least affected regions in the world, leading commentators to speculate about a so‐called “Africa paradox”. This review evaluates current research and data to establish the burden of COVID‐19 infections and mortality in the African region. Despite
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Between a rock and a hard place: Multisystem resilience and Honduran youth migration intentions International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Maria Estela Rivero Fuentes, Tom Hare, Laura Miller‐Graff
More is known about how ‘push factors’ motivate emigration and how immigrants adapt to their new environment than about psychological factors associated with migration intentions for those experiencing adversity in their country of origin. This paper explores the association between multisystem resilience and migration intentions among youth in Honduras. In this context of high economic need and contextual
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Size and ethnic homogeneity of extended social networks in the Netherlands: Differences between migrant groups and migrant generations International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Thijmen Jeroense, Bas Hofstra, Niels Spierings, Jochem Tolsma
Extended social networks encompass both weak and strong ties to provide social support and resources. Hence, it is important to study what explains variation in these networks. This paper addresses this and examines the size and ethnic homogeneity of extended social networks, and group differences therein, and it aims to explain these differences based on a preference–opportunities approach through
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Transforming settlement and integration services during a pandemic International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Valerie Preston, John Shields, Jayesh D'Souza
Settlement services are key to Canada's success in welcoming and integrating immigrants. Offered mainly in person prior to COVID‐19 by non‐governmental agencies reliant on and regulated by government funders, services were forced online and delivered by staff working remotely. We document this transition between September 2020 and September 2021 in Ontario, Canada and the conditions that influenced
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Unsettling Resettlement: Examining Local Dynamics of Refugee Integration in the United States Amid National Policy Change Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (IF 2.087) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Emily Frazier
Immigrant integration scholars increasingly emphasize the “local” level, yet most analyses of multilevel integration governance focus on municipal or other governmental actors. However, in the U.S....
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In Memoriam International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Father Lydio F. Tomasi, C.S
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Demographic Systems of Medieval Italy (6th–15th century AD) Population and Development Review (IF 10.515) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Irene Barbiera, Gianpiero Dalla‐Zuanna
In this article, we bring together a variety of studies, both old and new, to examine continuity and change in population dynamics in Italy during the medieval millennium (476–1492 AD). Though the available data are often sporadic and should be interpreted with great caution, it is possible to clarify certain dynamics, which can be useful for guiding future research. First, population fluctuations
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Racial classification as a multistate process (by Jerônimo Muniz, Bernardo Lanza Queiroz, Aliya Saperstein) Demographic Research (IF 2.005) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jerônimo Muniz, Bernardo Lanza Queiroz, Aliya Saperstein
Background: Although the existence of racial fluidity is generally accepted in both Brazil and the United States, changes in racial classification over the life course are often not incorporated into standard demographic estimates. Objective: By taking a multistate perspective on the variability of racial classification, we can use demographic methods to ask new questions about the nature of racial
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Unpacking “the system”: Multi‐level governance gaps in the labour market integration of highly skilled refugees International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Micheline van Riemsdijk
A plethora of government‐ and non‐government actors are involved in the labour market integration of highly skilled refugees, forming a complex “system” that is difficult to navigate for integration actors and refugees. Based on interviews with 32 labour market integration actors in Sweden, this article examines multi‐level governance gaps in the wake of the simultaneous centralization and decentralization
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The big decline: Lowest-low fertility in Uruguay (2016–2021) (by Wanda Cabella, Ignacio Pardo, Gabriela Pedetti, Mariana Fernández Soto) Demographic Research (IF 2.005) Pub Date : 2024-03-06
Background: In recent years, fertility rates have declined substantially in most Latin American countries. Uruguay has been at the forefront of this regional process, as the country’s total fertility rate plummeted from 2 children per woman in 2015 to 1.37 in 2021 (and continued to drop to 1.28 in 2022, according to preliminary data). Objective: We decompose fertility decline by age and birth order
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MichaelWoolcockInternational Development: Navigating Humanity's Greatest Challenge Polity, 2023, 200 p. $64.95. Population and Development Review (IF 10.515) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 JOSHUA WILDE
We have inherited a large house, a great world house in which we . . . must learn somehow to live with each other in peace. —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1967) The title of Michael Woolcock's latest book makes a provocative assertion: that international development is humanity's greatest challenge. At first glance, one could likely think of any number of alternative challenges that are more vexing and
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Migratory birds: Dehumanization of migrant workers in West Hungary Population, Space and Place (IF 2.63) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ferenc Jankó, Márton Czirfusz, Márton Berki
The region of West Hungary surrounding Sopron has experienced large migrant worker inflows from rural Hungary and neighbouring countries into low-skilled jobs in pre-COVID-19 years. This research interviewed workers, labour market intermediaries, employers, and hosts to explore how the fundamental humanity of migrant workers is denied in the labour process. The paper draws on geographical research
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Issue Information Population, Space and Place (IF 2.63) Pub Date : 2024-03-06
No abstract is available for this article.
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Losing the female survival advantage: Sex differentials in infant and child mortality in Pakistan (by Batool Zaidi) Demographic Research (IF 2.005) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Batool Zaidi
Objective: To understand patterns of gender discrimination by exploring whether the risk of dying during infancy and childhood is correlated with not only the sex and birth order of the child but also the sex composition of previous siblings. Methods: Event history analysis (Cox proportional hazards model) is applied to pooled data from the 2006–2007, 2012–2013, and 2017–2018 rounds of the Pakistan
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Traces of Kinship Care: Preliminary Findings From Nansen Passport Holders’ Documents in the League of Nations and Arolsen Archives International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ismee Tames
This article offers a new perspective on a body of literature that has been growing since the modern concept of “statelessness” became a pressing concern of diplomats and the displaced alike more than a century ago: it studies the “voices” of the stateless as captured in the archival documents of the organizations designed to deal with refugees through the lens of family and kinship care. This will
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Why do Citizens Criminalize Migrants? Experimental Evidence from a Multi-Role Country, Mexico International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 María del Pilar Fuerte-Celis, Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga
Every year, millions of immigrants arrive in countries that play multiple roles: they expel them, receive them, or shelter them. Sometimes, citizens welcome immigrants with open arms. Other times, they perceive them as potential criminals. Surprisingly, there is little research on the determinants of criminalization in multi-role countries. In this article, we analyze the results from a nationally
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Segregation and well‐being in Sweden: Geographies of well and ill‐being Population, Space and Place (IF 2.63) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Gijs Harm Westra
Well‐being is rarely considered in studies of residential segregation. This paper explores the spatial distribution of well‐being and its relationship to various forms of residential segregation. External well‐being indices are obtained for Swedish individuals through register data. The mean well‐being of 13 scales of bespoke neighbourhoods is classified into 12 clusters. Similar to previous findings
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Epidemics, pandemics and fertility change: responses to Zika and COVID-19 in Singapore Asian Population Studies (IF 1.95) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Poh Lin Tan, Joan Ryan, Jeremy W. Lim-Soh
Using longitudinal surveys on married Singaporean women of childbearing ages, we compared self-reported changes to fertility plans among 407 and 345 respondents after the 2016–2017 Zika and 2020 CO...
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Religious affiliation and child mortality in Ireland: A country-wide analysis based on the 1911 Census (by Lucia Pozzi, Francesco Scalone, Michail Raftakis, Liam Kennedy) Demographic Research (IF 2.005) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Lucia Pozzi, Francesco Scalone, Michail Raftakis, Liam Kennedy
Background: Previous studies have identified a link between religious affiliation and child mortality, yet the underlying factors that contributed to this association are not fully understood. Objective: This study investigates how religious affiliation impacted child mortality in early 20th century Ireland, controlling for socioeconomic status, literacy, and place of residence at both the individual
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“If you smile, they smile”: Explaining highly educated migrants' feelings of being welcome in the Euregio Meuse‐Rhine Population, Space and Place (IF 2.63) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Julia Reinold, Inge Hooijen, Merve Özer
Creating a welcoming environment is high on policy makers' agendas to attract highly educated migrants. It is unclear, however, which factors contribute to migrants' feelings of being welcome in the host country. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by exploring the factors influencing highly educated migrants' feelings of being welcome in the host country. We develop a conceptual framework that
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Cohort fertility of immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union (by Gustavo Shifris, Barbara S. Okun) Demographic Research (IF 2.005) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Gustavo Shifris, Barbara S. Okun
Background: The political and economic change accompanying the collapse of the Soviet Union triggered a large wave of immigrants to Israel during the 1990s. These immigrants arrived from low-fertility contexts to a higher-fertility society. Objective: We consider how the fertility of cohorts of diverse immigrant women from a low fertility context shifts in the context of high fertility. Methods: We
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Reconciling Family Aspirations and Paid Work in the European Union Population and Development Review (IF 10.515) Pub Date : 2024-02-29
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Beyond Economic Barriers: Conceptualizing Food Insecurity among Resettled Refugees Living in the United States Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (IF 2.087) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Hannah Stokes-Ramos
The US Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM) is the most common survey tool to measure food security status at the national level. No previous studies have sought to establish its content v...
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Rural–Urban Migration and Fertility Ideation in Senegal: Comparing Returned, Current, and Future Migrants to Dakar to Rural Nonmigrants Population and Development Review (IF 10.515) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Yacine Boujija, Simona Bignami, John Sandberg
In low‐ and middle‐income countries, significant differences in fertility beliefs between rural and urban areas arise from the differential timing and pace of fertility declines. Demographers have long hypothesized about the diffusion of these beliefs and behaviors from urban to rural areas, potentially via temporary rural–urban labor migration. In this paper, we investigate the association between
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DustinWhitneyDemographic Deception: Exposing the Overpopulation Myth and Building a Resilient FutureAdvantage Books, 2023, 148 p., $29.99. Population and Development Review (IF 10.515) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 STUART GIETEL‐BASTEN
When I picked up Demographic Deception by Dustin Whitney, I had a sense of unease. The title led me to expect a book in the “popular demography” genre; a genre to which unfortunately few trained demographers contribute and which has frequently been a platform for authors proffering “simple” demographic solutions to global ills, with sometimes far-reaching appeal and dangerous consequences. However
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The Relationships between Drought Exposure, Fertility Preferences, and Contraceptive Behaviors: A Multicountry Study Studies in Family Planning (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Oluwaseyi Somefun, Boladé Hamed Banougnin, Emily Smith‐Greenaway
The interplay between population dynamics and the environment has long interested demographers. Although studies have explored how climate patterns affect macrolevel population processes, such as mortality and migration, little is known about their impact on individual‐level demographic behaviors. This study fills this research gap by examining the linkages between exposure to drought and women's fertility
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How framing impacts attitudes about electoral rights for non‐resident citizens International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Staffan Himmelroos, Jean‐Michel Lafleur, Magdalena Lesinska, Marco Liesi, Johanna Peltoniemi, Theresa Reidy, Daniela Vintila, Åsa von Schoultz
Widespread adoption of policies granting electoral rights to citizens living abroad has spurred vivid scholarly debates regarding the drivers and consequences of extra‐territorial enfranchisement. But, little is known about the views of resident citizens in origin countries on the matter. We address this research gap and investigate how resident citizens' attitudes to external voting rights are affected
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Immobility in Moldova: Beyond the migration paradigm International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Ludmila Bogdan
This paper explores the motivations and barriers behind the decision of economically disadvantaged Moldovans to refrain from migrating for better economic prospects. Drawing on 30 qualitative interviews with voluntary stayers, it uncovers a range of individual‐level characteristics that impede migration aspirations. These findings highlight the heightened sensitivity of lower‐wage stayers to their
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From smuggled migrants to ‘alleged smugglers’: Empirical evidence and policy perspectives on the criminalization of people on the move in Italy International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Federico Alagna
Since 2014, numerous people on the move have been accused of migrant smuggling in Italian courts for steering makeshift vessels or for assisting in navigation across the Mediterranean Sea. This is the case regardless of the fact that such behaviour was the result of coercion or threats. In this contribution, drawing upon extensive empirical research and following a socio‐legal paradigm, I first explore
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Disruptions in Educational Progress and Fertility Dynamics by Educational Level: Unraveling the Link between Education and Fertility Stalls in Sub‐Saharan Africa Population and Development Review (IF 10.515) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Bruno D. Schoumaker, David A. Sánchez‐Páez
Stalls in fertility decline have been found in many sub‐Saharan African countries. Our objective is to unravel the relationship between education and stalled fertility by analyzing the extent to which fertility stalls reflect a lack of changes in the educational composition of the population or are related to reversals and halts in the fertility decline within educational groups. Using the Demographic
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Refugees as perceived threat: College students' attitudes towards refugees in South Korea International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Joowon Yuk, Hyoung-jin Shin
In 2018, the influx of Yemeni asylum seekers generated the unprecedented politicization of the refugee issue in South Korea. This paper explored South Korean attitudes towards refugees by collecting data from Korean college students. In doing so, we looked into what led to negative attitudes towards refugees and the role perceived threats play as a mediator. Following previous studies on intergroup
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Ageing and diversity: Inequalities in longevity and health in low-mortality countries (by Cosmo Strozza, Viviana Egidi, Maria Rita Testa, Graziella Caselli) Demographic Research (IF 2.005) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Cosmo Strozza, Viviana Egidi, Maria Rita Testa, Graziella Caselli
Background: Longevity and old age are two aspects of the same phenomenon, representing a major concern for modern societies. There is universal consensus among scholars about the need for new frameworks and measures to define older people in a more effective and dynamic way. Objective: The aim of this paper is to compute prospective old-age thresholds (POATs) in six countries characterised by disparate
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Book Review: Dying Abroad International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Mirjam Twigt
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Book Review: Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Sofia Aouani
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Gavin Jones’ scholarship on divorce in Asia: understanding trends, patterns, and implications Asian Population Studies (IF 1.95) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Premchand Dommaraju, Shu Hu
This paper highlights Professor Gavin Jones' seminal work on Asian divorce patterns, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia's Muslim communities. Beginning in the 1980s, Jones addressed the chal...
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Employment, Precarious Employment, and Unemployment Among Female Immigrant Youth in the United States Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies (IF 2.087) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Igor Ryabov
This article utilizes data sourced from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to investigate the influence of various factors on the labor-force participation of young American women...
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Longevity à la mode: A discretized derivative tests method for accurate estimation of the adult modal age at death (by Paola Vazquez-Castillo, Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, Trifon Missov) Demographic Research (IF 2.005) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Paola Vazquez-Castillo, Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, Trifon Missov
Background: The modal age at death (or mode) is an important indicator of longevity associated with different mortality regularities. Accurate estimates of the mode are essential, but existing methods are not always able to provide them. Objective: Our objective is to develop a method to estimate the modal age at death, which is purely based on its mathematical properties. Methods: The mode maximizes
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Understanding Asia’s revolutionary fertility change through Gavin W. Jones’ work Asian Population Studies (IF 1.95) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan
Gavin Jones’ professional career, from the 1960s to the 2020s, coincided with one of the most important periods of demographic change—the Asian fertility revolution. This article examines how his p...
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Measuring short-term mobility patterns in North America using Facebook advertising data, with an application to adjusting COVID-19 mortality rates (by Lindsay Katz, Michael Chong, Monica Alexander) Demographic Research (IF 2.005) Pub Date : 2024-02-13
Background: Patterns in short-term population mobility are important to understand, but the data required to measure such movements are often not available from traditional sources. Objective: To investigate patterns in short-term population mobility in all states and provinces in the United States and Canada using data collected from Facebook’s advertising platform. Methods: We collected daily traveler
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Celebrating the life and work of professor Gavin W. Jones Asian Population Studies (IF 1.95) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Stephanie C. Heng, Tim Bunnell, Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Published in Asian Population Studies (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2024)
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Gavin W. Jones—A life devoted to population and development Asian Population Studies (IF 1.95) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Nai Peng Tey
Professor Gavin W. Jones dedicated an impressive 58-year career to extensive research on various aspects of population and development in Asia. As a seasoned consultant, he was pivotal in shaping p...
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The Value of Cultural Similarity for Predicting Migration: Evidence from Food and Drink Interests in Digital Trace Data Population and Development Review (IF 10.515) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Sophie Lohmann, Emilio Zagheni
One of the strongest empirical regularities in spatial demography is that flows of migrants are positively associated with population stocks at origin and destination and are inversely related to distance. This pattern was formalized into what are known as gravity models of migration. Traditionally, distance is measured geographically, but other measures of distance, such as cultural distance, are
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Child Fostering and Family Size Preferences in Uganda Studies in Family Planning (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Cassandra Cotton
Mothers who exceed their ideal family size (IFS) may find themselves caring for more children than desired. In the absence of reliable and desirable prenatal controls of family size, mothers may foster-out children to reduce burdens of childrearing, particularly in contexts where fostering is common. Using six rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys collected in Uganda between 1988 and 2016, I explore
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Identifying Profiles of Support for Legal Abortion Services in Zambia: A Latent Class Analysis Studies in Family Planning (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Joseph G. Rosen, Michael T. Mbizvo, Nachela Chelwa, Lyson Phiri, Jenny A. Cresswell, Veronique Filippi, Nkomba Kayeyi
Relative to neighboring countries, Zambia has among the most progressive abortion policies, but numerous sociopolitical constraints inhibit knowledge of pregnancy termination rights and access to safe abortion services. Multistage cluster sampling was used to randomly select 1,486 women aged 15–44 years from households in three provinces. We used latent class analysis (LCA) to partition women into
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Cross-border mobility, inequality and migration intermediaries: Labour migration from Nepal to Malaysia International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Heila Sha, Yvonne Khor
This article aims to contribute to labour recruitment policy by demonstrating the relations between cross-border mobility and inequality through the lens of migration intermediaries. Drawing on thematic analysis of the MIDEQ project's in-depth interviews with Nepalese labour migrants (n = 20) in Malaysia, this research reveals the range of migration intermediaries along the recruitment chain, and shows
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Beyond the asylum-applications growth. The limits of the Spanish refugee reception program International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Juan Iglesias, Rut Bermejo, Isabel Bazaga
Based on two extended qualitative research projects conducted between 2017 and 2022, this paper analyses the refugee reception programme (RP) in Spain, which is managed both by the central state and some specialised social organisations. This cross-sectoral RP presents notable and enduring problems, which have deepened since the increase in asylum applications during the so-called European refugee
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Connecting the dots: Using social network analysis to disentangle the factors driving international migration International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Cassie McMillan
Migration scholars and policymakers continue to question why international migration corridors develop. In the current project, I argue that there is value in applying a social network approach to disentangle the processes that drive international migration. Using data on migration between 173 countries from 2010 to 2015, I construct a migration network where nodes are countries and edges are flows
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The gainers and losers from the United Kingdom's university-related migration: A subregional analysis of Graduate Outcomes Survey data Population, Space and Place (IF 2.63) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Tony Champion, Anne Green, Konstantinos Kollydas
Against the background of the rise in higher-education participation rates, this paper examines the spatial redistribution of undergraduates across the United Kingdom resulting from moves to and from university. Drawing on the Graduate Outcomes Surveys of 2017/2018 and 2018/2019, address data coded to 53 subregions (SRs) are used to track those enrolled on degree courses by age 20 from domicile to
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Fertility decline, changes in age structure, and the potential for demographic dividends: A global analysis (by Markus Dörflinger, Elke Loichinger) Demographic Research (IF 2.005) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Markus Dörflinger, Elke Loichinger
Background: The demographic dividend, a concept that is widely used in development cooperation, describes the economic growth potential based on shifts towards a large share of working-age population in the course of the demographic transition. However, a long-term global country-level assessment of the underlying changes in the working-age population and associated demographic factors is missing.
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Road Access, Fertility, and Child Health in Rural India Population and Development Review (IF 10.515) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Aparajita Dasgupta, Anahita Karandikar, Devvrat Raghav
Expansion in access to public infrastructure can have varied, microlevel impacts. In this paper, we use a discrete and quasi-random change in the access to paved roads through a large-scale rural road construction program in India to study how road access impacts fertility decisions and investments in child health. We find that increased access to paved roads at the district level decreases fertility
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Ethical tensions of migrants in the informal economy in the Global South International Migration (IF 2.022) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Oscar Naranjo Del Giudice, Sertan Kabadayi
Considering the ongoing, record-setting migration in the Global South, this paper explores the values, principles and ethical tensions of Venezuelan migrants in the informal economy of Colombia. We found that migrants frequently prefer to stay within the informal economy as a way of preserving their identities, values and principles, rather than adopting those of their new country. This choice sets
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War and mobility: Using Yandex web searches to characterize intentions to leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine (by Athina Anastasiadou, Artem Volgin, Douglas R. Leasure) Demographic Research (IF 2.005) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Athina Anastasiadou, Artem Volgin, Douglas R. Leasure
Background: Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many citizens left Russia due to increasing government repression, the fear of mobilization, or to escape the economic downturn. As yet, reliable statistical data on those who left are not available. Hence, much remains unknown about the characteristics and scope of this population. In the digital age, people prepare their journeys by searching
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The Entanglement Between Tangible and Intangible Factors in Shaping Hadiya Migration Aspirations to South Africa International Migration Review (IF 3.96) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Dereje Feyissa Dori, Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Caterina Mazzilli
This article expands scholarly knowledge on migration decision-making drawing on the case of Hadiya (Southern Ethiopia) migration to South Africa. We propose a conceptual framework where intangible factors (religious beliefs, imaginations, norms, and emotions, and feelings) are placed at the core of decision-making, alongside more tangible factors, such as livelihood opportunities. Even though we differentiate