OBJECTIVE This article provides an introduction to a special collection on childbearing
among the descendants of immigrants in Europe. We first review recent life-course research …

We study the interrelationships between partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrant
women and female descendants of immigrants using the UK Household Longitudinal Study …

While there is a large literature investigating migrant marriage or fertility, little research has
examined how childbearing and partnerships are interrelated. In this paper, we investigate …

This paper examines the childbearing behaviour of Polish migrant women and their
descendants in Sweden. Also considering stayers in the country of origin, we rely on a …

In being representative of individuals' demographic value orientations, fertility preferences
provide information about immigrants' adaptation to family formation patterns in the …

Fertility patterns in Nigeria are high and widely skewed away from the targets of the country's
population policy. As population growth is fueled by natural increase and migration, and with …

Immigrant fertility and the realization of fertility intentions are two topics of considerable
interest in contemporary demographic research. Yet very few studies have explored the …

Based on 40 interviews with Russian-speaking migrants living in Switzerland, this study
focuses on the sociability of migrant parents. The sociability of individuals evolves according …

Dieser Beitrag widmet sich der Differenzkategorie und dem Strukturmerkmal „Migration “und
diskutiert, welche migrationsspezifischen Aspekte in der familiensoziologischen Forschung …

We study the fertility patterns of first, 1.5, and second-generation immigrants in Spain,
analysing a database linking the 2012–15 birth registers to the 2011 census. While first …