Invitation • 12.07.2023BiB Population Research Series

Hill Kulu is Professor of Human Geography and Demography at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His research interests include family, fertility, migration and health studies. He is the President of the European Association of Population Studies and he leads the ERC Advanced Grant MigrantLife.

Abstract

European countries have witnessed increasing immigration streams and ethnic heterogeneity of their populations. Facilitating immigrant integration and social cohesion has become a major societal issue. This presentation gives an overview of the ‘MigrantLife’ project, which focuses on family and employment trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in the UK, France, Germany and Sweden. The results suggest that while cultural-normative factors are important in shaping partnership behaviour of immigrants and their descendants, structural-economic factors may play a more important role in fertility decisions. The analysis of employment trajectories reveals that most immigrant men are in education or full-time employment after arrival, whereas many women stay inactive. We discuss the fi ndings in the light of competing theories of immigrant and ethnic minority integration: the classical theory of assimilation vs the segmented assimilation theory.

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