Forced Migration and the Childbearing of Women and Men: A Disruption of the Tempo and Quantum of Fertility?


Journal

Demography
ISSN: 1533-7790
Titre abrégé: Demography
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0226703

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 04 2022
Historique:
pubmed: 25 3 2022
medline: 8 4 2022
entrez: 24 3 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

It is well known that migrant fertility is associated with age at migration, but little is known about this relationship for forced migrants. We study an example of displacement in which the entire population of Finnish Karelia was forced to move elsewhere in Finland in the 1940s. This displacement was unique because of its size and scale, because we have data on almost the whole population of both men and women who moved, and because of the similarity between origin and destination. These aspects enable us to investigate the disruptive impact of forced migration, net of other factors such as adaptation and selection. For all ages at migration from one to 20, female forced migrants had lower levels of completed fertility than similar women born in present-day Finland, which suggests a permanent impact of migration. However, women born in the same year as the initial forced migration showed no difference, which may indicate the presence of a counterbalancing fertility-increasing effect, as observed elsewhere for people born during a humanitarian crisis. There is less evidence of an impact for men, which suggests a gendered impact of forced migration-and its timing-on fertility. Results are similar after controlling for social and spatial mobility, indicating that there may be no major trade-off between reproduction and these forms of mobility.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35322268
pii: 297148
doi: 10.1215/00703370-9828869
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

707-729

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2022 The Authors.

Auteurs

Jan Saarela (J)

Demography Unit, Åbo Akademi University, Vaasa, Finland.

Ben Wilson (B)

Department of Sociology, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Methodology, London School of Economics, London, UK.

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