Teresa Castro, Judith Koops et Daniela Vono de Vilhena (dir.), « Migrant Families in Europe. Evidence from the Generations & Gender Programme », Population Europe Discussion Papers Series, No. 11, avril 2019

The contri­bu­tions stress the hete­ro­ge­neity among migrants’ family life and the need for targeted poli­cies. Concre­tely, four key messages are to be considered :

  1. Migrants’ family life trajec­to­ries differ by society of origin and are also shaped by the insti­tu­tional, policy and welfare context of the society of desti­na­tion. More research using longi­tu­dinal data is needed for advan­cing our unders­tan­ding of migrants’ atti­tudes and beha­viours in the realm of family life and for provi­ding informed advice to poli­cy­ma­kers and orga­ni­za­tions aiming to improve migrants’ living condi­tions and the life chances of their children.
  2. The Gene­ra­tions and Gender Programme is excel­lently posi­tioned to promote compa­ra­tive studies of migrants’ family life trajec­to­ries. Their cross-national struc­ture allows not only to compare popu­la­tions from different origins within coun­tries and to compare the same migrant group across different desti­na­tion coun­tries, but also to compare the migrant mino­rity in the host country with their non-migrant co-natio­nals in the country of origin.
  3. Spatial segre­ga­tion, limited profi­ciency in the host country language and limited social exchange with the majo­rity popu­la­tion hinder the inte­gra­tion of migrants and their descen­dants even in the long-term.
  4. Socie­ties should better support migrant fami­lies in acces­sing child­care services and brea­king social isola­tion at older ages.

Contents

    1. Intro­duc­tion Judith Koops and Teresa Castro Martin
    2. Do the Descen­dants of Immi­grants Become Adults Sooner or Later than Native-born ? Evidence from the French Gene­ra­tions and Gender Survey. Roberto Impic­cia­tore and Ariane Pailhé 
    3. Migrant Fami­lies in the German Gene­ra­tions and Gender Survey. Johanna Schütz and Robert Naderi
    4. Fami­lies of Poles in the Nether­lands : New Data to Study Migrants’ Family Dyna­mics and Social Networks in a Compa­ra­tive Setting. Alzbeta Bartova, Kasia Karpinska, Nina Conkova and Tineke Fokkema
    5. Child­bea­ring and Family Forma­tion of Russian-Origin Migrants in Estonia. Leen Rahnu
    6. Conclu­sions Teresa Castro Martin and Judith Koops

More about the research

Teresa Castro Martin, Judith Koops and Daniela Vono de Vilhena (eds.) (2019): Discus­sion Paper No. 11 : Migrant Fami­lies in Europe : Evidence from the Gene­ra­tions & Gender Programme. Berlin : Popu­la­tion Europe.

Down­load the Discus­sion Paper here.

Contact : press@​population-​europe.​eu

More Infor­ma­tion : Daniela Vono de Vilhena, vono@​demogr.​mpg.​de