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Migrants and the diffusion of low marital fertility in Belgium.
- Source :
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The Journal of interdisciplinary history [J Interdiscip Hist] 2012; Vol. 42 (4), pp. 593-614. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Although the diffusion of fertility behavior between different social strata in historical communities has received considerable attention in recent studies, the relationship between the diffusion of fertility behavior and the diffusion of people (migration) during the nineteenth century remains largely underexplored. Evidence from population registers compiled in the Historical Database of the Liège Region, covering the period of 1812 to 1900, reveals that migrant couples in Sart, Belgium, from 1850 to 1874 and from 1875 to 1899 had a reduced risk of conception. The incorporation of geographical mobility, as well as the migrant status of both husbands and wives, into this fertility research sheds light not only on the spread of ideas and behaviors but also on the possible reasons why the ideas and behaviors of immigrants might have been similar to, or different from, those of a native-born population.
- Subjects :
- Belgium ethnology
Emigrants and Immigrants education
Emigrants and Immigrants history
Emigrants and Immigrants legislation & jurisprudence
Emigrants and Immigrants psychology
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Humans
Registries
Social Behavior history
Social Conditions economics
Social Conditions history
Social Conditions legislation & jurisprudence
Fertility
Population Dynamics history
Reproductive Behavior ethnology
Reproductive Behavior history
Reproductive Behavior physiology
Reproductive Behavior psychology
Social Class history
Socioeconomic Factors history
Transients and Migrants education
Transients and Migrants history
Transients and Migrants legislation & jurisprudence
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0022-1953
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Journal of interdisciplinary history
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 22530255
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_00306