Migrants and the Diffusion of Low Marital Fertility in Belgium

Author:

Creighton Mathew1,Matthys Christa2,Quaranta Luciana3

Affiliation:

1. Mathew Creighton is Assistant Professor of Political and Social Science, Pompeu Fabra University. He is the author of, with Noreen Goldman, Graciela Teruel, and Luis Rubalcava, “Migrant Networks and Pathways to Child Obesity in Mexico,” Social Science & Medicine, LXXII (2011), 683–693; with Hyunjoon Park, “Closing the Gender Gap: Six Decades of Reform in Mexican Education,” Comparative Education Review, LIV (2010), 513–537.

2. Christa Matthys is Ph.D. Fellow of the Flanders Research Foundation (fwo), Department of History, Ghent University. She is the author of, with Lefèbvre Wim, Gids van landbouwarchieven in België, 1795–2000 (Leuven, 2007); “‘Laet u niet verleiden door de glans der rykdommen’: Het huwelijksgedrag van dienstboden in Vlaanderen tijdens de negentiende eeuw,” in Koen Matthijs et al. (eds.), Leven in de Lage Landen: Historisch demografisch onderzoek in Vlaanderen en Nederland (Leuven, 2010), 101–119.

3. Luciana Quaranta is a doctoral student, Centre for Economic Demography and Department of Economic History, Lund University. She is the author of “Agency of Change: Fertility and Seasonal Migration in a Nineteenth Century Alpine Community,” European Journal of Population, published online July 26, 2011, and available at ; with Marco Breschi and Alessio Fornasin, “Heights of Twenty Years Old Males of Friuli (Italy) Born between 1846 and 1890, Statistica, LXVI (2006), 389–414.

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.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,History,History and Philosophy of Science,History

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