Motherhood of foreign women in Lombardy: Testing the effects of migration by citizenship
<b>Background</b>: The international literature highlights the strong impact of the high risk of childbearing shortly after migration on period fertility, thus establishing a link between reproductive behaviors and migratory transitions. <b>Objective</b>: The present study...
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| author | Eleonora Mussino Giuseppe Gabrielli Anna Paterno Salvatore Strozza Laura Terzera |
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| description | <b>Background</b>: The international literature highlights the strong impact of the high risk of childbearing shortly after migration on period fertility, thus establishing a link between reproductive behaviors and migratory transitions. <b>Objective</b>: The present study aims to analyze how migration affects motherhood and the role played by country of citizenship. Although most of the literature has focused on analyzing post-immigration fertility behaviors, in the present work we follow the women for their entire fertility period. <b>Methods</b>: The data were collected in the 2010 ORIM survey, conducted by the Region of Lombardy and the Ismu Foundation. The survey covered about 8,000 immigrants in Lombardy, of whom 3,848 were women aged 14 years and over from less developed countries or Central/Eastern Europe. Using Event History Analysis, we applied discrete-time logit models to study the transition into motherhood. <b>Results</b>: Moroccans are characterized by a strong interrelation effect between fertility and migration. Moroccans and Albanians are the national groups with the highest risk of having a first child during the years shortly after migration. Migration does not seem to have any effect on the fertility behavior of Romanians, who have a lower risk of having a child regardless of their migration status. <b>Conclusions</b>: The study confirms the importance of the interrelationship between migratory and reproductive behaviors. It also highlights the different effects by country of citizenship, where different citizenships are often associated with different migration patterns and distinct gender roles. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-faa232ca21b4449792de3eb18d3dfd5e2022-12-21T18:18:19ZengMax Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchDemographic Research1435-98712015-09-01332310.4054/DemRes.2015.33.232657Motherhood of foreign women in Lombardy: Testing the effects of migration by citizenshipEleonora Mussino0Giuseppe Gabrielli1Anna Paterno2Salvatore Strozza3Laura Terzera4Stockholm UniversityUniversity of Naples Federico IIUniversity of BariUniversity of Naples Federico IIUniversità degli Studi di Milano Bicocca<b>Background</b>: The international literature highlights the strong impact of the high risk of childbearing shortly after migration on period fertility, thus establishing a link between reproductive behaviors and migratory transitions. <b>Objective</b>: The present study aims to analyze how migration affects motherhood and the role played by country of citizenship. Although most of the literature has focused on analyzing post-immigration fertility behaviors, in the present work we follow the women for their entire fertility period. <b>Methods</b>: The data were collected in the 2010 ORIM survey, conducted by the Region of Lombardy and the Ismu Foundation. The survey covered about 8,000 immigrants in Lombardy, of whom 3,848 were women aged 14 years and over from less developed countries or Central/Eastern Europe. Using Event History Analysis, we applied discrete-time logit models to study the transition into motherhood. <b>Results</b>: Moroccans are characterized by a strong interrelation effect between fertility and migration. Moroccans and Albanians are the national groups with the highest risk of having a first child during the years shortly after migration. Migration does not seem to have any effect on the fertility behavior of Romanians, who have a lower risk of having a child regardless of their migration status. <b>Conclusions</b>: The study confirms the importance of the interrelationship between migratory and reproductive behaviors. It also highlights the different effects by country of citizenship, where different citizenships are often associated with different migration patterns and distinct gender roles.http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol33/23/interrelation hypothesisLombardymigrationmotherhood |
| spellingShingle | Eleonora Mussino Giuseppe Gabrielli Anna Paterno Salvatore Strozza Laura Terzera Motherhood of foreign women in Lombardy: Testing the effects of migration by citizenship Demographic Research interrelation hypothesis Lombardy migration motherhood |
| title | Motherhood of foreign women in Lombardy: Testing the effects of migration by citizenship |
| title_full | Motherhood of foreign women in Lombardy: Testing the effects of migration by citizenship |
| title_fullStr | Motherhood of foreign women in Lombardy: Testing the effects of migration by citizenship |
| title_full_unstemmed | Motherhood of foreign women in Lombardy: Testing the effects of migration by citizenship |
| title_short | Motherhood of foreign women in Lombardy: Testing the effects of migration by citizenship |
| title_sort | motherhood of foreign women in lombardy testing the effects of migration by citizenship |
| topic | interrelation hypothesis Lombardy migration motherhood |
| url | http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol33/23/ |
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