Forced Migration and the Childbearing of Women and Men: A Disruption of the Tempo and Quantum of Fertility?
Abstract 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 disp...
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crdukeunivpr:10.1215/00703370-9828869 2024-06-02T08:09:45+00:00 Forced Migration and the Childbearing of Women and Men: A Disruption of the Tempo and Quantum of Fertility? Saarela, Jan Wilson, Ben 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9828869 https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article-pdf/59/2/707/1511217/707wilson.pdf en eng Duke University Press Demography volume 59, issue 2, page 707-729 ISSN 0070-3370 1533-7790 journal-article 2022 crdukeunivpr https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9828869 2024-05-07T13:15:40Z Abstract 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper karelia* Duke University Press Demography 59 2 707 729 |
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Abstract 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. |
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