The EAPS Network Migrant and Minority Fertility in Europe brings together researchers who address these topics under different perspectives:

• To discuss the applicability of different demographic approaches: e.g. tempo vs quantum, period vs cohort to migrant fertility.
• To assess to what extent national and international data sources can be used for comparative analyses and to overcome problems related to different sampling criteria, definitions of migrants etc. 
• To test traditional hypotheses of migrant and minority fertility within the current European context.
• To develop a comprehensive picture of the results from various research perspectives on migrant and minority fertility, such as the comparison between several migrant groups at one destination, a migrant group from one sending country at different destinations, emigrants from one sending country to stayers in the country of origin.
• Studying the impact of meso and macro-level discontinuities such as regional disparities on the labour market or economic crises, on family formation of migrants and minorities.
• To explore the relationship between other aspects of family dynamics, such as partnership formation, and fertility.
• To carry out comparative analyses between migrant generations in order to understand the patterns, causes and consequences of intergenerational change.

All members may join the Research Network and participate in its events.

Joining the group's events usually is free of charge while participants are expected to cover their own travel and related costs. The Research Network is facilitated by EAPS through a modest operating budget. 

Meetings previously organized by the Working Group:

• Conference Children in Migrant or Ethnic Minorities: Demographic and Social Processes in a Comparative Perspective, Rostock, Germany, 16-17 May 2019
• Workshop on migrant and minority fertility in Hannover https://www.ish.uni-hannover.de/mmf.html, February 2017
• Side meeting at the European Population Conference 2016 in Mainz, Germany,  September 2016.

Recent Publications

2019

Kraus, Elisabeth (2019): “Family formation trajectories across borders: A sequence analysis approach to Senegalese migrants in Europe”. Advances in Life Course Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2019.100290 (online first).

Kulu, H., Milewski, N., Hannemann, T., & Mikolai, J. (2019). A decade of life-course research on fertility of immigrants and their descendants in Europe. Demographic Research, 40(46), 1345-1374. demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol40/46/. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2019.40.46.

Mussino, E., Miranda, V., & Ma, L. (2019). Sex composition of children born and transition to third birth among immigrants in Sweden. Journal of Population Research, 36, 81–109, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12546-019-09224-x.

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