{"title":"From Remittance Receivers to Senders: Unpacking Transnational Care Circulation Among South Asian Student Migrants in Finland and Sweden","authors":"Zain Ul Abdin","doi":"10.1002/psp.70077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70077","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on transnational care through remittances has gained traction but remains largely focused on one-directional flows. Studies on remittances have examined external factors, such as structural facilities, and internal factors, including family dynamics, that shape remittance practices. However, most research predominantly explores North-to-South remittance flows. This study draws on a decade of periodic ethnographic research and 57 life story interviews with South Asian student migrants in Finland and Sweden to analyse how external and internal factors influence the bidirectional and multidirectional dynamics of transnational care economies. Families with members in two countries mainly receive support from India and Pakistan, whereas families spread across multiple countries receive support from both home and beyond, including the US and Spain, for up to 3 years. Some families transition from bidirectional to multidirectional support when the migrant moves abroad, expanding the household's remittance circulation capacity. Others receive remittances from already settled siblings within Finland and Sweden, reducing the need for cross-border support. Achieving self-sufficiency through employment marks a critical turning point where reverse remittances stop. Migrants then begin repaying support—often without explicit agreements—either to original supporters or to newer migrants until they establish their own families. This marks their transition from receivers to senders, often followed by a stage of non-sending. A comprehensive ‘life course’ approach to analysing remittance practices challenges the dominant view of student migrants as passive recipients, highlighting the complex and evolving nature of remittance roles within transnational care circulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70077","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144695845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica Nisén, Sebastian Klüsener, Johan Dahlberg, Lars Dommermuth, Aiva Jasilioniene, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Trude Lappegård, Peng Li, Pekka Martikainen, Karel Neels, Bernhard Riederer, Saskia te Riele, Harun Sulak, Laura Szabó, Alessandra Trimarchi, Francisco Viciana, Mikko Myrskylä
{"title":"Economic Conditions, Education and Parity-Specific Fertility: A Sub-National Regional Study Across 15 Countries in Europe","authors":"Jessica Nisén, Sebastian Klüsener, Johan Dahlberg, Lars Dommermuth, Aiva Jasilioniene, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Trude Lappegård, Peng Li, Pekka Martikainen, Karel Neels, Bernhard Riederer, Saskia te Riele, Harun Sulak, Laura Szabó, Alessandra Trimarchi, Francisco Viciana, Mikko Myrskylä","doi":"10.1002/psp.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is a longstanding interest in the link between economic conditions and fertility levels. Most research measuring economic development has focused on national-level patterns and period total fertility levels. We aim to extend existing knowledge by carrying out a sub-national regional analysis of the link between economic conditions and parity-specific cohort fertility, while taking into account heterogeneity by educational level. We study three fertility outcomes by women's education: the share of women who remain childless, the mean number of children per mother and the mean number of children per woman. For this analysis, we harmonised register, census and large-scale survey data from 15 European countries, with a focus on women born in the late 1960s. Women's fertility was measured at the end of their reproductive careers and combined with contextual information, including information on the regional GDP (per capita). In our multiple regression models that controlled for country-level factors, we found that GDP was positively associated with childlessness among women with medium and high levels of education. However, GDP was negatively associated with the number of children per mother among women with low levels of education. These findings show that the relationship between economic conditions and fertility varies depending on the level of education of the women, and it differs between childlessness and continued childbearing. High-income contexts may be less supportive of continued childbearing for women with lower levels of education.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144687903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Júlia Mikolai, Hill Kulu, Michael J. Thomas, Sergi Vidal
{"title":"Time Since Separation, Repartnering, and Homeownership in England and Wales, and Germany","authors":"Júlia Mikolai, Hill Kulu, Michael J. Thomas, Sergi Vidal","doi":"10.1002/psp.70073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70073","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Separation, divorce, and repartnering are increasingly common across European societies. These partnership transitions are closely related to individuals' housing careers. For example, after separation, individuals are likely to move out of homeownership and experience a period of elevated residential mobility. However, little is known about the role of repartnering for post-separation housing careers. This paper investigates homeownership levels among separated and repartnered individuals in Germany, and England and Wales, two societies with similar levels of economic development but different welfare and housing systems. We use multi-level logistic regression to study the probability of being a homeowner on combined data from the British Household Panel Survey and the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study, and the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find that separated individuals are significantly less likely to own a home than those who are married or cohabiting in both countries. Homeownership levels increase over time since separation, but this increase is largely associated with repartnering. Homeownership rates remain low among separated individuals who do not repartner, especially among those with low socio-economic status. We conclude that separation has a long-term effect on individuals' housing careers, which exacerbates existing housing inequalities particularly in countries such as England and Wales where homeownership is the main tenure type.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144688097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migration and Short-Term Fertility Intentions in Contexts of Socioeconomic and Political Crises an Origin (Albania)–Destination (Italy) Perspective","authors":"Thaís García-Pereiro, Anna Paterno","doi":"10.1002/psp.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses women's intentions to have a(nother) child from an origin-destination perspective, comparing the fertility intentions of Albanian migrants in Italy to those of non-migrants in Albania, a country facing complex historical, socioeconomic, institutional and political challenges on its path toward European integration. This comparison tests both selection and socialisation hypotheses. Additionally, the short-term fertility intentions of Albanian migrants according to time passed since migration are compared to those of Italian women (non-migrants in the host country) to test for adaptation. We also account for differences and similarities in fertility intentions across groups of women according to parity and test our hypotheses applying binary logistic regressions as well as Propensity Score Matching (PSM) techniques. Findings point out to migrants’ selectivity, given that their intention to have a(nother) child is far lower than the intention of non-migrants at origin; and adaptation, as migrants show fertility intentions that are more like those of non-migrants at destination (natives), in particular less recent migrants.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144647161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rickshaw as In-Between: Heterotopias and Social Participation in Aging","authors":"Nora Winsky, Carla Onusseit","doi":"10.1002/psp.70068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As the population aged 65 and older significantly increases, understanding the dynamics within nursing homes becomes crucial. Residents often face loneliness upon entering these facilities, experiencing a disconnection from their previous lives and parts of society. The initiative “Cycling Without Age” fosters reconnection through volunteer-led rickshaw rides. This study conceptualizes the rickshaw as an in-between space, expanding on Foucault's notion of heterotopia. By examining the interplay between nursing homes as heterotopic sites and the rickshaw as an intermediary space, this study draws on 24 qualitative interviews with volunteers, highlighting how the interactions between pilots and passengers enhance social engagement and challenge existing societal structures such as spatial exclusion. Our theoretical-conceptual contribution engages in a ludic dialogue between Foucault's concept of heterotopias and our empirical material, speculating on the role that the rickshaw, as a mobile, micro-scale in-between space, can play between the heterotopic nursing home and the non-heterotopic rest of space.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144647485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paying a Premium Only in Native Neighborhoods: The Role of Migrant Share in Shaping Housing Price Differentials in the Netherlands","authors":"Weiyi Cao, Nico Heerink, Eveline van Leeuwen","doi":"10.1002/psp.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding housing price differentials across nativity, gender, or racial groups is crucial because housing costs influence economic well-being, wealth accumulation, and long-term security. While extensively studied in the U.S., similar research is limited in Europe. This study extends U.S. analyses of racial disparities to examine nativity disparities in the Netherlands by investigating intra- and inter-neighborhood price differentials among migrant, mixed, and native households using pooled data from the 2015 and 2018 Housing Research Netherlands surveys. Classifying neighborhoods as native, mixed, and migrant, the study identifies both similarities and differences with the U.S. context. First, negative associations between migrant shares and housing prices are more pronounced in native neighborhoods than in mixed or migrant neighborhoods. Second, upward tipping points driving price increases as migrant shares rise are not observed in the Dutch context; instead, downward tipping effects are identified. Additionally, intra-neighborhood price differentials vary across the three neighborhood types. Migrant households in native neighborhoods pay, on average, 7.83% more for housing compared to native households, while no such premiums are observed in mixed neighborhoods or among mixed households. These findings highlight the influence of neighborhood migrant or native shares in shaping price differentials, suggesting mechanisms such as housing discrimination and limited bargaining power faced by migrant households. The study underscores the need for further research, such as utilizing repeat-sales transaction data, to more precisely identify the causes behind these housing price disparities in the Netherlands.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144647354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Figure of the Knot and the Inertia of Hypermobile Territoriality","authors":"Brouck Jennifer","doi":"10.1002/psp.70067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70067","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contemporary spatialities shaped by mobility have often been conceptualised as open, fluid, and unstable—places, territories, or identities that risk dissolution in the primacy of process over form. However, this emphasis on relational flows has been criticised for overlooking the material and affective dimensions of space: its inertia, resistance, and structuring capacities. Building on recent geographical research advocating a more-than-relational perspective, this article investigates the territorialisation of hypermobile individuals through detailed fieldwork in Paris and Copenhagen. Combining a survey of 300 individuals with semi-structured interviews and mental maps of 38 intensely mobile subjects, it examines the micro-processes by which individuals appropriate and embed themselves in space. The knot metaphor serves as a conceptual tool to capture the entangled dynamics of movement and stability, revealing how territorial forms persist and evolve amid constant transformation. This approach challenges dominant narratives of spatial dilution by emphasizing the embedded, dense, and ‘sticky’ qualities of contemporary mobility and territoriality.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial Introduction: ‘Placing’ Return Migration","authors":"Russell King, Nilay Kılınç","doi":"10.1002/psp.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This introductory paper sets the agenda for the Special Issue on ‘Placing’ Return Migration. It stresses the key role of place in shaping return-migration imaginaries, processes and outcomes, including attention paid to the routes and temporalities of return. The paper foregrounds geographers' (and others') calls to ‘ground’ and ‘spatialise’ migration, with a particular focus on the limited literature on the roles of place and space in return migration. Typologies and examples of place-based itineraries of return are set out. Finally, the editorial introduction presents an overview of the five papers in the Special Issue and indicates the potential for further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Case of Pre-24 February 2022 Ukrainian Migrants and War Refugees in Poland: How War Affects Fertility Beliefs and Intentions","authors":"Kateryna Krakhmalova, Weronika Kloc-Nowak","doi":"10.1002/psp.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article deepens the understanding of the effects of war as an uncertain and crisis event on fertility beliefs and intentions. It addresses the less-explored region of Central Eastern Europe and is one of the few qualitative studies in this field. Based on 24 in-depth interviews (IDIs), we analyze the fertility beliefs and intentions of pre-24 February 2022 migrants and war refugees from Ukraine in Poland and the impact of the Russian invasion, restrictions on the movement of men from Ukraine, and war refugeehood on their family life. We combine the heuristic frame of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) with the narratives of the future framework and terror management theory. Our findings show the need to focus on two elements of TPB to deeper understand fertility in a war context: (1) beliefs about the importance of having a child and (2) the opportunity to have a child (as a part of control). These two elements, as the Ukrainian case shows, war transforms. The analysis also reveals the complexity of neutral narratives of the future and changing fertility intentions, with the identified narratives and conditions for childbearing being useful for formulating policies addressing the demographic losses of the Ukrainian state.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polina Palash, Andrea Souto, Laura Oso, Virginie Baby-Collin
{"title":"Berracas Caring. The Birth, Life and Death of Transnational Families: A Multi-Sited Ethnography Across Colombia, Spain and France","authors":"Polina Palash, Andrea Souto, Laura Oso, Virginie Baby-Collin","doi":"10.1002/psp.70071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article focuses on transnational care and social protection arrangements in families scattered across their origin context, Colombia, and their migration contexts in France and Spain. It considers gendered caring practices and their evolution over long time frames, applying a life course and trajectory perspective. The article draws on a multi-sited ethnography conducted in Marseille, Madrid, A Coruña, Medellin and Bogota, with 31 members, mostly female, of three transnational families. Our research allows us to observe the transnational family in the various contexts the family members are located in—‘here,’ ‘there’ and ‘beyond,’—encompassing intergenerational perspectives of the younger, adult or elderly respondents. The results show the birth, life and death of transnational families related to the evolution of family ties intertwined with the migratory, labour and life trajectories of its members, and with their care and social protection arrangements and the underlying tensions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70071","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}