Background: Couples in Europe have fewer children than they intend to, resulting in a gap between intended family size and completed fertility. This is partly because first-pregnancy attempts are postponed to older reproductive ages, when giving birth is more difficult due to the decline in fecundity and increased probability of miscarriage. Modelling educational differences in prevalence, timing,

This article analyses the everyday experiences of stateless Rohingya refugee women mothering and raising families within refugee settlements in Delhi. Centering the narratives of refugee women, I argue that motherhood is a site for the governance of migration, where insecurities are felt and agency may be expressed. First, I illustrate the tensions between the gendered expectations on Rohingya mothers

Restrictive immigration policies, financial concerns and/or cultural preferences often lead families to separate across borders in the migration process. This transnational family separation, which often lasts years, can potentially have long lasting negative consequences on migrant parents’ mental health. Qualitative research has documented that transnational parents often report feelings of guilt

The neonatal, infant and under‐5 mortality rates are important indicators of child health used by countries to monitor their health policies and for international comparisons. Coverage and completeness of registration systems are critical for the quality of these indicators. However, under registration of deaths is still a major problem today, especially where registration systems are still in the

Starting in the 1990s, the United States experienced a gender revolution in education whereby later born cohorts of women surpassed men in rates of higher education completion. However, little research has explored how gender differences in education for second-generation immigrants compare to the children of U.S.-born Whites over historical and contemporary time periods. Immigrants arrive with varying

State in modern times has seen globalization accentuating the phenomena of various types of irregular migration as it has brought about newer opportunities of life and livelihoods across the oceans in hitherto distant lands. Conversely, even though these irregular migrants encounter many obstacles along the route, they risk their lives in the hopes of securing a better future for themselves and their

The EU tries to dissuade potential migrants from coming to Europe irregularly. However, can EU‐promoted narratives compete with local ones and actually influence migratory decision‐making? This article investigates how local migration narratives of potential migrants interrelate with the narratives put forward in EU‐funded migration information campaigns. Building upon focus groups and interviews conducted

Much research has been carried out on (retirement) return migration, emphasizing the importance of family ties, infrastructure, the healthcare system and social relationships as factors that often boost non‐return. Less research, however, has looked at the biographies of older migrants from a phenomenological and social‐constructivist approach and how return is part of one's biographical narration

When Zimbabwean migrants age, they often retire and permanently return to their families in their home country. Before that, they periodically visit home on holidays and for family functions such as weddings, funerals or burials. Otherwise, they spend much of their lives abroad. Following their ‘retirement return’, several dynamics emerge about their reintegration, power dynamics and care needs within

This study explores the relationship between self-reported health problems, healthcare dissatisfaction, and migration aspirations, preparations, and expectations in Africa, based on individual-level data from 46 African countries (2008–2015). The findings indicate that individuals experiencing health problems are more likely to expect to move domestically within the next 12 months and to take preparatory

Migrants’ engagement in digital platform work is pervasive in many cities around the world and certainly in Canada's metropoles (Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal). While highly precarious, platform work has been shown to offer pathways into labor market integration for newly arrived migrants. Based on 62 qualitative interviews with digital platform workers, this article compares the work experiences

This paper revisits the concept of ecotone to shed a different light on migratory spaces. The notion of ecotone was first applied for the study of the contact zones between ecological systems. Over the last two decades, it has been used by scholars of postcolonial literature for the analysis of spaces of cultural interactions. Bridging this strand of work with the debate on more‐than‐relational space

South Korea is experiencing an unprecedented decline in birth rates, prompting the government to expand various forms of support, with housing assistance requiring the largest budget allocation. Given this substantial financial investment, it is essential to evaluate the impact of housing policies on childbirth intentions. This study examines the housing preferences of unmarried young adults who are

Since 2015, about 7.9 million Venezuelans left their country due to political turmoil, socio‐economic instability, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis. The Andean Corridor is the most frequented land route in South America. This article explores Venezuelan migrants' experiences with the COVID‐19 pandemic on their journeys. Migrants undertake spatial movements and phases of staying, here conceived of

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Background: Capturing the complexity of family life courses as predictors of later-life outcomes like wealth is challenging. Previous research has either (a) assessed a few selective but potentially irrelevant summary indicators, or (b) examined entire life-course clusters without identifying specific important aspects within and between them. Objective: Our aim is to investigate which family life-course

This study examines the trajectories of subjective well‐being (SWB) of women and their partners transitioning to parenthood or remaining childless after experiencing pregnancy loss in the United Kingdom.Childbearing is generally associated with short‐term improvements in women's and men's SWB. However, less is known about couples’ well‐being dynamics before and after pregnancies ending in losses, despite

Background: Increased employment instability over recent decades has been argued to contribute to delayed family formation. Although previous research has shown negative associations between employment instability – such as unemployment, nonstandard employment, or unstable employment trajectories – and entry into marriage and childbirth, direct evidence on how increased employment instability to delayed

This study investigates how African and Haitian migrants and asylum seekers in transit through Mexico utilise the concept of vulnerability, as defined by current migration management systems, to secure protection and legal status. Through ethnographic fieldwork conducted with 30 migrants in Mexico from 2021 to 2023, the research employs semi‐structured interviews and longitudinal follow‐ups to understand

This paper investigates the educational strategies of displaced Ukrainian parents regarding their school‐age children who fled to Poland and Germany after the 2022 full‐scale Russian invasion. The study is based on an abductive analysis of a unique longitudinal qualitative panel data set of 82 semi‐structured interviews with displaced Ukrainians with school‐age children in Berlin and Warsaw in summer

Drawing on qualitative interview data and document analysis, this article traces the making of interoperability between databases as a policy response to Europe's crisis‐laden management of migration. It argues that, rather than adhering to a singular logic, the policy enacts several modes of ordering through which actors employ distinct meanings and rationales, deal with challenges and complexities

Most migration‐information campaigns (MICs) funded by European countries or the European Union (EU) itself, with the collaboration of international and transnational organisations, have been targeting central and western Africa as origin areas for several undocumented migrants. In 2019, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) launched WAKA Well, an innovative campaign in the form of a website

The forced migration of the long‐persecuted Rohingya minority group from the Rakhine State of Myanmar has created a chronic refugee crisis in neighbouring Bangladesh. This paper examines the potential for, and challenges to, local integration of the Rohingya into Bangladesh. Based on interview data, this paper analyses the factors that facilitated the de facto local integration of Rohingya into Bangladeshi

The article takes cognizance of a citizenship register called the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and comprehends it within the larger framework of a digital citizenship discourse. The NRC is a register that documents ‘authentic citizens’, based on documentary evidence, termed as the ‘legacy data’ (lineage of forefathers), and proof of residence of persons before a cut‐off date of 24 March 1971

People's exposure to various social and spatial contexts over time leads to patterns of spatial integration and segregation. While the study of spatial integration has predominantly focused on the location and context of residential neighbourhoods, the emerging activity space approach to segregation argues that it is important to consider people's actual activity locations and mobility. This study

COVID‐19 resulted in global restrictions on migration, with pronounced consequences in Australia, where the resettlement of refugees was significantly curtailed from March 2020. This research, comprising a third phase in an ongoing study on refugee settlement and integration, seeks to understand the broader implications of these restrictions on family separation and reunion among resettled refugees

The concept of migration governance has captured scholarly attention in recent decades. In this paper, we present the results of a bibliometric analysis and a scoping review of this concept and explore how it is defined by authors across the social sciences. Based on our sample of literature, we find that a majority of definitions assume a state‐sovereignty perspective of migration governance, leading

Background: Experiences of hardship, such as trouble paying bills and food insecurity, vary considerably across different household living arrangements, with relatively low levels among married-couple households. Objective: We examine the extent to which disparities across household types can be explained by differences in income, non-income resources such as wealth, demographic characteristics, and

This article considers whether the refugee governance system and humanitarian programs in Indonesia accommodate people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression (SOGIE). It contributes to an area of migration research which has been under-researched, on structural processes shaping the lives of sexual and gender minorities as they seek asylum in receiving countries in the Global

This paper uses a unique, linked administrative data file to examine the impact of language training and employment‐related services on the employment income of the first wave of Syrian refugees admitted to Canada between 2015 and 2016. The analysis reveals a significant positive relationship between refugees' access to employment‐related services and higher employment income. However, this positive

The accelerating fertility decline in the most gender‐equal countries of the world seemingly contradicts the central tenet of macro‐level theories that predict high fertility in the presence of gender equality. We offer a comprehensive assessment of the individual behavior from which these trends aggregate. We link attitudes toward gender roles and fertility intentions in three Nordic countries.Using

This paper examines diaspora policy diffusion in Africa by analyzing measures adopted by 54 African countries, the African Union, and the United Nations. It investigates vertical diffusion by comparing national and international measures, and horizontal diffusion by identifying cross-country and regional trends. The findings reveal a bidirectional interplay among national, regional, and global influences

Declines in immigrant fertility from one generation to the next provide an indirect measure of immigrant assimilation. Post-2000 declines in US fertility nevertheless may mask substantial—and growing—heterogeneity, especially across racial and ethnic minorities and new immigrant groups. We apply data from the June Current Population Survey to document generation-to-generation differentials in cohort

With international migration on the rise and the critical need for labour in the global north, governments are increasingly focused on the employment integration of immigrants. Studies demonstrate that where immigrants choose to settle has an impact on how effectively they integrate into employment. In Canada, there has been a shift in immigrant settlement patterns away from large urban centres toward

Lack of data transparency and administrative data quality issues have hindered our understanding of the treatment of unaccompanied minors in the United States to date. This Dispatch from the Field provides new statistics on nearly a half million unaccompanied minors navigating removal proceedings in US immigration courts nationwide between 2009 and 2023 (through March), including population demographics

This study applies a social network approach to the study of migration. Analysis of a social network of 136 North Koreans refugees in Greater London indicates that individual refugees’ position in the network predicts their probability of developing connections beyond the immediate refugee community. The results show that refugees who are more central in the ethnic trust network, connecting different

Background: The total fertility rate (TFR) is a fundamental demographic measure widely used for assessing fertility trends in populations. However, the TFR is susceptible to distortion due to timing effects, which can confound the understanding of true fertility patterns. Objective: This study investigates the impact of changes in the distribution of fertility rates on the period total fertility rate

Utilization of perinatal care remains limited in many settings, exposing pregnant women and newborns to excessive mortality risks. This study quantifies the potential mortality impact of scaling up perinatal care in the five low‐ and middle‐income countries with the highest current infant mortality burden. The study analyses 237,358 birth records from nationally representative observational data from

Previous research on fertility by field of education has revealed stronger fertility variation than by the more frequently studied metric of educational level. However, this line of research has not focused on both men and women and changes across cohorts. Our study is the first to analyze cohort trends in fertility by field of education for both sexes and includes the cohorts of educational expansion

Background: The Black–White mortality gap transitioned from narrowing to stalling and eventually widening between 2000 and 2022. Objective: This study investigates the contributors to the stalling gap in the 2010s, to what extent the widening gap during the COVID-19 pandemic was a result of causes that contributed to the pre-pandemic stalling, and the variations by sex and education. Methods: We use

In the Finnish–Russian migratory context, return migration does not exist as such. In this article, we examine the non‐return migration of Russian‐speaking elderly migrants through the lens of the transnational everyday. The transnational everyday of Russians in Finland has, until recently, enabled their back‐and‐forth trips from Finland to Russia. The combination of Finnish and Russian migratory regimes

The end of a person's active life is often a key moment in the emergence of new life projects involving, in particular, important issues linked to the choice of the place of residence or even the adoption of poly‐residence practices. It is within this framework that many retired Moroccan immigrants in France choosing to return to Morocco as a residential choice for retirement are to be found in this

This paper aims to enrich the current literature on the study of migratory movements in the context of COVID‐19 and the post‐pandemic period. While most of the studies on this topic measure migration using official registers, we propose a new methodology based on the leverage of mobile phone network data, taken from the Madrid region, as a case study. While the use of such data are common in other

Assessing populations exposed to climate change impacts traditionally relies upon census data estimations. Yet, these only provide a static picture of risk since censuses are often undertaken and released over long periods and thus cannot be updated regularly. In this study, we investigate how to leverage multi‐temporal geolocated social media data from Meta‐Facebook and assess spatio‐temporal variations

Against the backdrop of the rising use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART), we argue that more reflection on the measurement and conceptualization of the contribution of ART to fertility rates is warranted. First, despite evidence of marked sociodemographic stratification in ART use, research on the ART contribution to fertility rates has largely overlooked how ART contributes differently to

This article examines the association between modernization and career growth of American men and European immigrants, focusing on heterogeneity along ancestry, ethnicity, and early-career class position. Analyses rely on datasets built with individual-level linked historical Censuses (1901–1940), which longitudinally map socio-economic indices of full occupational careers of late-nineteenth-century

Background: Religion and religiosity are known as important determinants of health and mortality. Previous studies on the interrelation between religion and mortality have relied on survey data and have mainly been carried out in a North American setting. Objective: We provide a register-based study of life expectancy by religious affiliation for a total national population over the course of five

Background: In low- and middle-income countries, death registration remains low, and mortality estimation is heavily based on surveys and censuses conducted through face-to-face interviews. These operations are costly and time-consuming, and are difficult to conduct during health and security crises. Taking advantage of the rapid increase in cell phone network coverage, mobile phone surveys (MPS) have

The Covid‐19 pandemic marked the year 2020. In Belgium, it led to a doubling in deaths, mainly grouped into two periods. This article aims to compare the relative importance of predictors and individual and spatial determinants of mortality during these two waves to an equivalent non‐pandemic period and to identify whether and to what extent the pandemic has altered the sociodemographic patterns of

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