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Einsame junge Frau steht auf Seebrücke und schaut in die Ferne (refer to: Loneliness: Especially younger people are feeling increasingly lonely) | Source: © fotoduets/stock.adobe.com

FReDA Policy BriefLoneliness: Especially younger people are feeling increasingly lonely

In the last five years, the feeling of loneliness has increased in Germany. Today, one in three people between the ages of 18 and 53 feels lonely at least some of the time – including many younger people under 30, as new BiB analyses show.

BooksFamily dynamics of international migrants and their descendants

Kraus, Elisabeth K. (2017)

Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

This dissertation tries to shed new light on the relationship between migration and fertility by concentrating on two migration contexts and applying different quantitative methods and taking various perspectives. The thesis consists of three independent research papers that are all tied together by the same theoretical framework that has been proposed in the literature to explain the link between migration and fertility (selection, disruption, interrelation of events, socialization and adaptation). Chapter 2 and 3 analyse the fertility behaviour of Senegalese migrants in Europe. While Chapter 2 takes a descriptive approach to family trajectories of male and female migrants and how they evolve in the immediate time before and after the migration move, Chapter 3 compares the fertility behaviour of migrant and non-migrant couples. Finally, Chapter 4 focuses on Latin American child migrants in Spain and their fertility preferences compared to native Spanish youth. The findings contribute to our understanding of the interplay between migration and fertility (preferences) and provide theoretical and methodological implications for the study of migrant fertility.

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