Partnership dynamics among immigrants and their descendants in four European countries
Abstract
This study investigates union formation and dissolution among immigrants and their descendants in four European countries with different migration histories and family patterns (United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Estonia). Although there is a growing body of literature on migrant families in Europe, there is still little comparative research on partnership dynamics among immigrants and their descendants. We apply event history analysis to pooled data from the four countries. The analysis shows a significant variation in partnership patterns across migrant groups in some countries (e.g., South Asians vs. Caribbeans in the United Kingdom) and similar partnership behaviour for some migrant groups in different countries (e.g., South Asians in the United Kingdom and immigrants from Turkey in France). Descendants of immigrants often exhibit partnership patterns that are similar to those of their parents' generation. The country context matters; specific patterns are observed for Spain and Estonia.
Citation
Hannemann , T , Kulu , H , González-Ferrer , A , Pailhe , A , Puur , A & Rahnu , L 2020 , ' Partnership dynamics among immigrants and their descendants in four European countries ' , Population, Space and Place , vol. 26 , no. 5 , e2315 . https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2315
Publication
Population, Space and Place
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1544-8444Type
Journal article
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Description
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007‐2013) under grant agreement no. 320116 for the research project Families and Societies. For Leen Rahnu and Allan Puur, this work was also supported by the Estonian Research Council grant (PRG71). Hill Kulu's work was also supported by Economic and Social Research Council grant ES/K007394/1 and carried out in the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC).Collections
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