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Migrants and the diffusion of low marital fertility in Belgium
- Source :
- JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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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 :
- History
Reduced risk
MIGRATION
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Population Dynamics
Immigration
Population
Emigrants and Immigrants
Reproductive Behavior
Fertility
Marital Fertility
Belgium
History and Philosophy of Science
Humans
Registries
Sociology
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Social Behavior
education
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Transients and Migrants
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History and Archaeology
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Social stratification
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Geographical Mobility
Social Class
Socioeconomic Factors
Social Conditions
Demographic economics
Demography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00221953
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a7ab187e76370b2fd04b9d81381fdda8