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Does Citizenship Still Matter? Second Birth Risks of Migrants from Albania, Morocco, and Romania in Italy
[La citoyenneté compte-t-elle encore? Les probabilités d’une deuxième naissance pour les migrants en provenance d’Albanie, du Maroc, de Roumanie résidant en Italie]

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  • Eleonora Mussino

    (ISTAT)

  • Salvatore Strozza

    (Federico II, University of Naples)

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In this article we investigate the propensities to have the second child in Italy for foreign women from Albania, Morocco, and Romania. Our study contributes to the international debate on migrant fertility by testing the main competing hypotheses present in literature, using the Italian case as an illustration. Italy is an important case study because it has been a country of immigration for only a few decades and because the literature on this topic was limited in Italy by the difficulties in obtaining proper longitudinal data. An important component of our work was therefore to build a new data set, using record linkage procedures that allow us to improve the information from Survey on Birth and Resident Permit Registers and to study the individual childbearing trajectories. Our results confirm the importance of the mother’s citizenship. The impact remains strong after controlling for the main demographic and migratory characteristics. We found that older cohorts experience a disruption effect but that a native Italian partner can promote an adaptation process such as a convergence in fertility behavior toward that of native Italian women.

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  • Eleonora Mussino & Salvatore Strozza, 2012. "Does Citizenship Still Matter? Second Birth Risks of Migrants from Albania, Morocco, and Romania in Italy [La citoyenneté compte-t-elle encore? Les probabilités d’une deuxième naissance pour les mi," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 28(3), pages 269-302, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurpop:v:28:y:2012:i:3:d:10.1007_s10680-012-9261-6
    DOI: 10.1007/s10680-012-9261-6
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