Meppelink, Tobias (2020) Influence of migration on fertility behavior of Turkish migrants in Germany. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
In many aspects, migration is an influential event in someone’s life course. Fertility behavior is one of the behaviors for which this effect was found. This study aims at examining the influence of migration on the fertility behavior of Turkish migrants in Germany. After reviewing the literature on fertility determinants in developed societies and on the influence of migration on fertility behavior, two hypotheses are considered for this thesis: the adaptation hypotheses and the disruption hypothesis. Data from Generations and Gender Survey is used to estimate two Poisson regression models with fertility as the dependent variable. The first one is used to calculate predicted means of childbearing for Turkish migrants and German natives; the second to examine the development of Turkish migrant fertility with an increasing duration of stay and including controls for compositional differences between migrant cohorts. The results show to be consistent with both the hypothesis of disruption and adaptation, and a coherent trend is visible in the development of fertility behavior over duration of stay. However, no significant results are found for differences in fertility across all migrant cohorts, which seems to due to the relatively small sample size of this analysis. Another remarkable result is the considerable differences in predicted means between childbearing of all migrant cohorts and German natives, suggesting that migrant fertility does not completely adapt to that of natives. Overall, the results indicate that both disruption and adaptation mechanisms are indeed of influence on the fertility behavior of Turkish migrants in Germany.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Remund, A.P.P. |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2020 10:14 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2020 10:14 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3240 |
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