GenusPub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1186/s41118-023-00204-x
Eleonora Mussino, Elisabeth Kraus, Nadja Milewski
{"title":"Introduction to the Thematic Series: Use and consequences of family policies among migrants and their descendants in Europe","authors":"Eleonora Mussino, Elisabeth Kraus, Nadja Milewski","doi":"10.1186/s41118-023-00204-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00204-x","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article is the introduction to the Thematic Series Use and consequences of family policies among migrants and their descendants in Europe . The study contexts are countries in different Western European regions: Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy. Despite their differences with respect to welfare-state types in general and family policies in particular, these countries also vary when it comes to their immigration histories and current migrant populations. Yet, the fast-growing field of research on the effects of family polices on family and fertility behavior as well as work-family reconciliation has virtually overlooked migrants. To address this void in the existing literature, this Thematic Series raises two research questions: To what degree do family policies include, and are used by, migrants and their descendants? And, to what extent do such polices promote migrants’ integration into European societies? The collection contains six empirical articles investigating either eligibility or use and consequences of two specific family policy measures: parental leave and external childcare. Collectively, the studies show significant disadvantages among migrant groups in eligibility for family policy measures, and consequently in their use and impacts on further life-course patterns, compared to majority populations. They also demonstrate diverging patterns within migrant populations.","PeriodicalId":35741,"journal":{"name":"Genus","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134909156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GenusPub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1186/s41118-023-00201-0
Anna Caprinali, Agnese Vitali, Clara Cortina
{"title":"The transition from cohabitation to marriage in Spain: differences and determinants in same-sex and different-sex couples","authors":"Anna Caprinali, Agnese Vitali, Clara Cortina","doi":"10.1186/s41118-023-00201-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00201-0","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Same-sex households and non-heterosexual people’s living arrangements are an expanding area of research in family studies. This contribution focuses on the transition from cohabitation to marriage of same-sex couples in comparison to different-sex couples in Spain, i.e., one of the pioneer countries of same-sex marriage that was legalized in 2005. In this particular context, we investigate to what extent same-sex couples and different-sex couples present similar marriage risks. Employing Event History Analysis and using data from the 2018 Spanish Fertility Survey, we find that, overall, same-sex couples have a significantly lower hazard of transitioning from non-marital cohabitation to marriage than different-sex couples. When restricting the sample to currently co-residing couples, the difference in the hazard of marriage between the two couple types remains negative but becomes insignificant. We thus disprove that same-sex couples have a higher incentive for marriage. These results are discussed in light of the different composition of same-sex vs different-sex couples in terms of their socio-demographic profile and motivations for marriage.","PeriodicalId":35741,"journal":{"name":"Genus","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135815763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From South Asia to Southern Europe: a comparative analysis of Sri Lankans’ residential segregation in the main Italian cities using high-resolution data on regular lattice geographies","authors":"Francesca Bitonti, Federico Benassi, Angelo Mazza, Salvatore Strozza","doi":"10.1186/s41118-023-00203-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00203-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present work proposes a spatial analysis of the residential segregation and settlement models of Sri Lankans in the eight main Italian municipalities. Hosting more than half of the total Sri Lankan population residing in Italy, the selected urban areas allow Sri Lankans’ residential model to be globally framed across the country. The purpose of this work is threefold. First, it provides a general assessment of the allocation pattern of a foreign community that has seldom been studied and yet is characterized by peculiar settlement choices. Second, it attempts to compare the settlement patterns of Sri Lankans across different urban contexts. Third, it aims to detect the possible spatial polarization of Sri Lankans in specific neighbourhoods and to verify its spatial correlation with other key variables that constitute proxies of urban neighbourhoods’ socioeconomic inequalities. The study runs multiple aspatial linear models to assess the global variation in concentrations of Sri Lankans related to several socioeconomic predictors. Furthermore, it implements geographically weighted regressions to explicitly model the spatial dependence between Sri Lankans’ location quotients and several predictors. It refers all the considered variables to a single geographic reference grid, enabling the homogenization of different areal unit arrangements and comparisons across space. Except for Milan and Rome, the findings suggest that Sri Lankans tend to reside in central neighbourhoods characterized by a high foreign presence and a decreased trend of Italian population. Conversely, the impact of the cost of living and the state of the built environment is heterogeneous across space, with a sort of centre-periphery duality in Southern cities and more fragmented situations in the other urban contexts. This evidence proves the relevance of local scale analysis and the need to build up urban observatories on spatial inequalities and segregation processes.","PeriodicalId":35741,"journal":{"name":"Genus","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136130519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GenusPub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1186/s41118-023-00202-z
Giuseppina Autiero, Annamaria Nese
{"title":"Cultural persistence or change? Gender differences in educational expectations of first and second-generation immigrants in Italy","authors":"Giuseppina Autiero, Annamaria Nese","doi":"10.1186/s41118-023-00202-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00202-z","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper analyzes whether cultural heritage determines gender differences in educational expectations to go to university of first- and second-generation immigrants in Italy. The analysis relies on the “Integration of Second-Generation Survey” (INTEG2GEN) carried out by the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) in 2015. INTEG2GEN is a national representative survey of students living in Italy and attending lower and upper secondary school. Our findings suggest that parents’ cultural background plays a non-negligible role for their daughters’ and sons’ expectations. Nevertheless, there is a gender difference in the way they react to it. Males are more sensitive to cultural orientations towards education. Females are more responsive to gender inequality issues and tend to conform to gender roles deemed appropriate according to their cultural tradition. Nevertheless, females seem more open to changes and opportunities they face in the new country.","PeriodicalId":35741,"journal":{"name":"Genus","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135826992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GenusPub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1186/s41118-023-00200-1
Maxim Kan
{"title":"Are gender attitudes and gender division of housework and childcare related to fertility intentions in Kazakhstan?","authors":"Maxim Kan","doi":"10.1186/s41118-023-00200-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00200-1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Previous research has found evidence of positive associations between gender-egalitarian attitudes or more equal division of housework/childcare and short-term fertility intentions in developed countries of Europe and East Asia. This study extends the literature to the context of a developing country in the post-communist region—Kazakhstan, which has progressed well in public gender equality but may not have developed private gender equality to the same extent as more developed countries. The study explores how (1) gender attitudes, (2) gender behaviour (housework and childcare division), and (3) consistency between gender attitudes and gender behaviour are associated with fertility intentions in this country. Kazakhstan’s Generations and Gender Survey of 2020 was used for the analyses. The dependent variable was treated as an interval measure, where intentions move along a continuum of certainty. Linear regressions were employed to test the hypotheses. The results show that gender-egalitarian attitudes were negatively associated with short-term fertility intentions for women with two and more children. Likewise, a more equal division of housework was negatively associated with short-term fertility intentions for both women and men, whereas more equal sharing of childcare was negatively associated with men’s fertility intentions. Also, in contrast to studies in more developed contexts, an egalitarian match of gender attitudes and behaviour (either housework or childcare) was negatively associated with short-term childbearing intentions for both women and men. Overall, greater gender equality in the family has a negative relationship with short-term fertility intentions in Kazakhstan. The study provides new and compelling evidence about the relationship between gender equality and fertility in a context that has not previously been studied.","PeriodicalId":35741,"journal":{"name":"Genus","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135939225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GenusPub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1186/s41118-023-00198-6
Nadja Milewski, U. Brehm
{"title":"Parental leave policies, work (re)entry, and second birth: Do differences between migrants and non-migrants in Germany increase?","authors":"Nadja Milewski, U. Brehm","doi":"10.1186/s41118-023-00198-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00198-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35741,"journal":{"name":"Genus","volume":"79 1","pages":"1-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43830166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GenusPub Date : 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1186/s41118-023-00199-5
M. Porcu, Isabella Sulis, Cristian Usala, F. Giambona
{"title":"Will the gap ever be bridged? A cross-national comparison of non-native students’ educational achievements","authors":"M. Porcu, Isabella Sulis, Cristian Usala, F. Giambona","doi":"10.1186/s41118-023-00199-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00199-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35741,"journal":{"name":"Genus","volume":"79 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44025585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GenusPub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1186/s41118-023-00191-z
Marco Cozzani
{"title":"Inequalities at birth: stable socioeconomic differences in birth outcomes in three British cohorts","authors":"Marco Cozzani","doi":"10.1186/s41118-023-00191-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00191-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35741,"journal":{"name":"Genus","volume":"79 1","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43909573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GenusPub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1186/s41118-023-00196-8
Eleonora Trappolini, L. Terzera, S. Rimoldi, Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso
{"title":"Informal childcare arrangements: a comparison between Italians and migrants","authors":"Eleonora Trappolini, L. Terzera, S. Rimoldi, Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso","doi":"10.1186/s41118-023-00196-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00196-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35741,"journal":{"name":"Genus","volume":"79 1","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65777764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GenusPub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1186/s41118-023-00197-7
Eleonora Mussino, L. Ortensi
{"title":"Childcare in Italy among migrants and natives: who uses which type and why?","authors":"Eleonora Mussino, L. Ortensi","doi":"10.1186/s41118-023-00197-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00197-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35741,"journal":{"name":"Genus","volume":"79 1","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43950213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}