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Since the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, global policies, and agenda‐setting milestones have emphasized that universal sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are unattainable without the meaningful engagement and inclusion of men. Despite this, the field of SRHR continues to struggle with how and in what ways men can and should be included in research, programs

Background: Kolk et al. (2023) use Swedish register data to provide a detailed numerical account of biological kinship. Applying their approach in other countries is challenging due to high data requirements. Objective: We examine whether Kolk et al.’s (2023) findings generalize to another demographically advanced country, the Netherlands, and assess how differences in cohort fertility and divorce

Fertility research in sub‐Saharan Africa regularly indicates the need to increase women's reproductive autonomy. However, individual, female‐focused conceptualizations of reproductive autonomy tend to neglect the power dynamics both internal and external to couples and other intimate relationships that shape a woman's reproductive autonomy. Furthermore, they disregard the reproductive autonomy of men

The rise in late fertility has emerged as a landmark trend in high‐income countries in recent decades. Yet, its spread has been geographically uneven, which has largely been attributed to socioeconomic contextual factors. Our study introduces a new perspective: the role of spatial diffusion processes. We exploit the regional variation in the increase in the contribution of late fertility rates to total

We explore the role of gender‐unequal attitudes towards gender norms and perceived structural gender inequality in the migration decision‐making of men and women. Adopting a conceptual model based on possible selves theory, the research employs a contextual social identity perspective concerning gender. We posit that the disparate spheres of inequality experienced by women relative to men should have

This commentary discusses the issue of low and declining fertility and the enduring relevance of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action (PoA) in this new demographic context. We explore low‐fertility trends, patterns, and determinants; fertility in the context of the ICPD PoA; and the recent pushback against sexual and reproductive health, rights

The climate crisis will have an impact on everyone, everywhere, affecting both present and future generations, but there are unique ways in which the crisis is impacting the lives of women and girls. This commentary reviews growing evidence on the effects of climate change on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender‐based violence (GBV), illustrating how the crisis is augmenting

Big data and artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to transform sexual and reproductive health (SRH), offering new avenues to enhance access, efficiency, and personalization in healthcare. AI‐driven tools can provide opportunities to improve service delivery and optimize resource allocation. Through data‐driven insights, healthcare providers can better understand population trends, predict

Background: The concept of resilience in familial and social contexts has gained prominence in academic and policy discussions. However, the interplay between family life and social inequalities, and how these relate to each other in the resilience literature, has yet to be documented. Objective: This scoping review addresses this gap by analysing 250 articles published between 1998 and 2023. We compare

This article analyses the social protection strategies that Latin American transnational families have deployed to cope with the new regime of (im)mobilities that emerged after the COVID‐19 crisis. It reflects on how the pandemic has restructured the articulation of the family welfare model and the migration regime in Spain. From a theoretical point of view, it combines the analysis of family strategies

Intra‐European migrants move in different configurations, both in terms of trajectories (one‐off, repeat, multiple) and in terms of motivations (including work, family, education and/or lifestyle). In this article I provide a statistical picture of migrant trajectories and motivations based on a survey of EU internal movers coming from and residing in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. While

Background: Quantitative studies of Amish population dynamics have been methodologically constrained by difficulties identifying Amish in national surveys. If Amish could be reliably identified in, for example, the American Community Survey (ACS), researchers could leverage its rich variables to document both demographic outcomes and their social predictors. Objective: Cross-validate two methods for

In recent decades, interest in residential segregation has increased in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region, primarily due to immigration. This study explores segregation and its potential links to socioeconomic disparities and social (in)justice. The analysis uses standard segregation indicators, along with their spatial counterparts, and employs permutation tests for inference. These methods

There is growing scholarly and policy interest in understanding how destination and transit countries develop return migration policies and collaborate with origin countries. This study investigates the dynamics, drivers and outcomes of the collaborative process between Turkish and Afghan authorities in governing the return of Afghan migrants. Drawing on the concept of return diplomacy, derived from

Background: Family structures shape caregiving dynamics and are considered key drivers of inequality. While research often focuses on partners and children, recent studies highlight the role of grandparents and parents of adult children in shaping informal labor demands. However, sociodemographic differences in multigenerational structures remain understudied. Most research focuses on multigenerational

Since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), there have been notable improvements in reproductive health and rights. However, these overall gains obscure deep inequalities, and recent setbacks during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic highlight the fragility of this progress. The reproductive health agenda is extensive yet remains underfunded and underperforming. Careful

The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development transformed the family planning (FP) field. Yet, three decades later, global FP monitoring remains anchored in the same core indicators: contraceptive use, unmet need, and demand satisfied. Despite decades of well‐established critique, these measures have seen little substantive revision. As the global community looks to 2030 and beyond

Estimates of the incidence of induced abortion and unintended pregnancies in refugee settings are lacking, limiting efforts to improve sexual and reproductive health services. We adapted the abortion incidence complications method to estimate the incidence of induced abortion and unintended pregnancy among women aged 15–49 years in refugee settlements in Uganda. We draw data from a survey of 102 health

Background: Couples in Europe have fewer children than they intend to, resulting in a gap between intended family size and completed fertility. This is partly because first-pregnancy attempts are postponed to older reproductive ages, when giving birth is more difficult due to the decline in fecundity and increased probability of miscarriage. Modelling educational differences in prevalence, timing,

This article analyses the everyday experiences of stateless Rohingya refugee women mothering and raising families within refugee settlements in Delhi. Centering the narratives of refugee women, I argue that motherhood is a site for the governance of migration, where insecurities are felt and agency may be expressed. First, I illustrate the tensions between the gendered expectations on Rohingya mothers

Restrictive immigration policies, financial concerns and/or cultural preferences often lead families to separate across borders in the migration process. This transnational family separation, which often lasts years, can potentially have long lasting negative consequences on migrant parents’ mental health. Qualitative research has documented that transnational parents often report feelings of guilt

The neonatal, infant and under‐5 mortality rates are important indicators of child health used by countries to monitor their health policies and for international comparisons. Coverage and completeness of registration systems are critical for the quality of these indicators. However, under registration of deaths is still a major problem today, especially where registration systems are still in the

Starting in the 1990s, the United States experienced a gender revolution in education whereby later born cohorts of women surpassed men in rates of higher education completion. However, little research has explored how gender differences in education for second-generation immigrants compare to the children of U.S.-born Whites over historical and contemporary time periods. Immigrants arrive with varying

State in modern times has seen globalization accentuating the phenomena of various types of irregular migration as it has brought about newer opportunities of life and livelihoods across the oceans in hitherto distant lands. Conversely, even though these irregular migrants encounter many obstacles along the route, they risk their lives in the hopes of securing a better future for themselves and their

The EU tries to dissuade potential migrants from coming to Europe irregularly. However, can EU‐promoted narratives compete with local ones and actually influence migratory decision‐making? This article investigates how local migration narratives of potential migrants interrelate with the narratives put forward in EU‐funded migration information campaigns. Building upon focus groups and interviews conducted

Much research has been carried out on (retirement) return migration, emphasizing the importance of family ties, infrastructure, the healthcare system and social relationships as factors that often boost non‐return. Less research, however, has looked at the biographies of older migrants from a phenomenological and social‐constructivist approach and how return is part of one's biographical narration

When Zimbabwean migrants age, they often retire and permanently return to their families in their home country. Before that, they periodically visit home on holidays and for family functions such as weddings, funerals or burials. Otherwise, they spend much of their lives abroad. Following their ‘retirement return’, several dynamics emerge about their reintegration, power dynamics and care needs within

This study explores the relationship between self-reported health problems, healthcare dissatisfaction, and migration aspirations, preparations, and expectations in Africa, based on individual-level data from 46 African countries (2008–2015). The findings indicate that individuals experiencing health problems are more likely to expect to move domestically within the next 12 months and to take preparatory

Migrants’ engagement in digital platform work is pervasive in many cities around the world and certainly in Canada's metropoles (Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal). While highly precarious, platform work has been shown to offer pathways into labor market integration for newly arrived migrants. Based on 62 qualitative interviews with digital platform workers, this article compares the work experiences

This paper revisits the concept of ecotone to shed a different light on migratory spaces. The notion of ecotone was first applied for the study of the contact zones between ecological systems. Over the last two decades, it has been used by scholars of postcolonial literature for the analysis of spaces of cultural interactions. Bridging this strand of work with the debate on more‐than‐relational space

South Korea is experiencing an unprecedented decline in birth rates, prompting the government to expand various forms of support, with housing assistance requiring the largest budget allocation. Given this substantial financial investment, it is essential to evaluate the impact of housing policies on childbirth intentions. This study examines the housing preferences of unmarried young adults who are

Since 2015, about 7.9 million Venezuelans left their country due to political turmoil, socio‐economic instability, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis. The Andean Corridor is the most frequented land route in South America. This article explores Venezuelan migrants' experiences with the COVID‐19 pandemic on their journeys. Migrants undertake spatial movements and phases of staying, here conceived of

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Background: Capturing the complexity of family life courses as predictors of later-life outcomes like wealth is challenging. Previous research has either (a) assessed a few selective but potentially irrelevant summary indicators, or (b) examined entire life-course clusters without identifying specific important aspects within and between them. Objective: Our aim is to investigate which family life-course

This study examines the trajectories of subjective well‐being (SWB) of women and their partners transitioning to parenthood or remaining childless after experiencing pregnancy loss in the United Kingdom.Childbearing is generally associated with short‐term improvements in women's and men's SWB. However, less is known about couples’ well‐being dynamics before and after pregnancies ending in losses, despite

Background: Increased employment instability over recent decades has been argued to contribute to delayed family formation. Although previous research has shown negative associations between employment instability – such as unemployment, nonstandard employment, or unstable employment trajectories – and entry into marriage and childbirth, direct evidence on how increased employment instability to delayed

This paper investigates the educational strategies of displaced Ukrainian parents regarding their school‐age children who fled to Poland and Germany after the 2022 full‐scale Russian invasion. The study is based on an abductive analysis of a unique longitudinal qualitative panel data set of 82 semi‐structured interviews with displaced Ukrainians with school‐age children in Berlin and Warsaw in summer

Drawing on qualitative interview data and document analysis, this article traces the making of interoperability between databases as a policy response to Europe's crisis‐laden management of migration. It argues that, rather than adhering to a singular logic, the policy enacts several modes of ordering through which actors employ distinct meanings and rationales, deal with challenges and complexities

Most migration‐information campaigns (MICs) funded by European countries or the European Union (EU) itself, with the collaboration of international and transnational organisations, have been targeting central and western Africa as origin areas for several undocumented migrants. In 2019, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) launched WAKA Well, an innovative campaign in the form of a website

The article takes cognizance of a citizenship register called the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and comprehends it within the larger framework of a digital citizenship discourse. The NRC is a register that documents ‘authentic citizens’, based on documentary evidence, termed as the ‘legacy data’ (lineage of forefathers), and proof of residence of persons before a cut‐off date of 24 March 1971

People's exposure to various social and spatial contexts over time leads to patterns of spatial integration and segregation. While the study of spatial integration has predominantly focused on the location and context of residential neighbourhoods, the emerging activity space approach to segregation argues that it is important to consider people's actual activity locations and mobility. This study

COVID‐19 resulted in global restrictions on migration, with pronounced consequences in Australia, where the resettlement of refugees was significantly curtailed from March 2020. This research, comprising a third phase in an ongoing study on refugee settlement and integration, seeks to understand the broader implications of these restrictions on family separation and reunion among resettled refugees

The concept of migration governance has captured scholarly attention in recent decades. In this paper, we present the results of a bibliometric analysis and a scoping review of this concept and explore how it is defined by authors across the social sciences. Based on our sample of literature, we find that a majority of definitions assume a state‐sovereignty perspective of migration governance, leading

Background: Experiences of hardship, such as trouble paying bills and food insecurity, vary considerably across different household living arrangements, with relatively low levels among married-couple households. Objective: We examine the extent to which disparities across household types can be explained by differences in income, non-income resources such as wealth, demographic characteristics, and

This article considers whether the refugee governance system and humanitarian programs in Indonesia accommodate people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression (SOGIE). It contributes to an area of migration research which has been under-researched, on structural processes shaping the lives of sexual and gender minorities as they seek asylum in receiving countries in the Global

This paper uses a unique, linked administrative data file to examine the impact of language training and employment‐related services on the employment income of the first wave of Syrian refugees admitted to Canada between 2015 and 2016. The analysis reveals a significant positive relationship between refugees' access to employment‐related services and higher employment income. However, this positive

The accelerating fertility decline in the most gender‐equal countries of the world seemingly contradicts the central tenet of macro‐level theories that predict high fertility in the presence of gender equality. We offer a comprehensive assessment of the individual behavior from which these trends aggregate. We link attitudes toward gender roles and fertility intentions in three Nordic countries.Using

This paper examines diaspora policy diffusion in Africa by analyzing measures adopted by 54 African countries, the African Union, and the United Nations. It investigates vertical diffusion by comparing national and international measures, and horizontal diffusion by identifying cross-country and regional trends. The findings reveal a bidirectional interplay among national, regional, and global influences

Declines in immigrant fertility from one generation to the next provide an indirect measure of immigrant assimilation. Post-2000 declines in US fertility nevertheless may mask substantial—and growing—heterogeneity, especially across racial and ethnic minorities and new immigrant groups. We apply data from the June Current Population Survey to document generation-to-generation differentials in cohort

With international migration on the rise and the critical need for labour in the global north, governments are increasingly focused on the employment integration of immigrants. Studies demonstrate that where immigrants choose to settle has an impact on how effectively they integrate into employment. In Canada, there has been a shift in immigrant settlement patterns away from large urban centres toward

Lack of data transparency and administrative data quality issues have hindered our understanding of the treatment of unaccompanied minors in the United States to date. This Dispatch from the Field provides new statistics on nearly a half million unaccompanied minors navigating removal proceedings in US immigration courts nationwide between 2009 and 2023 (through March), including population demographics

This study applies a social network approach to the study of migration. Analysis of a social network of 136 North Koreans refugees in Greater London indicates that individual refugees’ position in the network predicts their probability of developing connections beyond the immediate refugee community. The results show that refugees who are more central in the ethnic trust network, connecting different