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Fertility of Ethnic Minorities
Fertility of Ethnic Minorities
Tuesday, 12 July 2016: 14:15-15:45
Location: Elise Richter Saal (Main Building)
RC41 Sociology of Population (host committee) Language: English
Human fertility is known to be related to certain social, cultural, economic, biologic and demographic factors. Some factors such as age at marriage and use of contraception affect fertility directly, while others – mostly social, cultural and economic – affect indirectly (see e.g. Davis and Blake, 1956; Bongaarts, 1978). Ethnicity is one such factor.
There is no single definition of ethnicity. In some populations the ethnic minority status is determined by one’s religion and/or cultural background (e.g., the Hui in China or the Tamils in Sri Lanka), while in others first and subsequent generations of overseas-born (e.g., the Asians or Africans in many European countries) are considered as ethnic minorities. Indigenous/native populations in some countries (e.g., Australia, the US and Canada) are also considered as ethnic minorities.
This session invites papers dealing with any aspect of the fertility of ethnic minority groups in developed or developing countries. Both quantitative and qualitative papers based on census, survey or other data sources will be considered.
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