Several studies tried to evaluate the effect of cultural traits such as familism on demographic behaviours but the estimated effects may be biased by the different context, mainly in terms of welfare and legislation. An interesting strategy in order to disentagle the effect of of long term cultural factors from the influence given by the legislative and structural context takes into account international migrations and in particular the characteristics of second generations of migrants, i.e. individuals born and grown in the country of arrival but influenced by a different cultural background. In this paper we focus on demographic behaviors of the Italian's second generations in France. Relevant differences emerge between Italian G2 and autochthones, in particular among women and cohorts born after the Second World War. Therefore, our results are in contrast with the hypothesis that the familistic perspective is entirely due to the Welfare and the institutional setting. On the other hand, they indicate the persistence of deep-rooted cultural developed in Italy during the parent’s childhood and transmitted to their children born and growth in a foreign Country

Out of context? The effect of deep-rooted cultural traits on the transition to adulthood among the Italian second generations in France / R. Impicciatore. ((Intervento presentato al convegno European population conference 2012 tenutosi a Stockholm nel 2012.

Out of context? The effect of deep-rooted cultural traits on the transition to adulthood among the Italian second generations in France

R. Impicciatore
2012

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Several studies tried to evaluate the effect of cultural traits such as familism on demographic behaviours but the estimated effects may be biased by the different context, mainly in terms of welfare and legislation. An interesting strategy in order to disentagle the effect of of long term cultural factors from the influence given by the legislative and structural context takes into account international migrations and in particular the characteristics of second generations of migrants, i.e. individuals born and grown in the country of arrival but influenced by a different cultural background. In this paper we focus on demographic behaviors of the Italian's second generations in France. Relevant differences emerge between Italian G2 and autochthones, in particular among women and cohorts born after the Second World War. Therefore, our results are in contrast with the hypothesis that the familistic perspective is entirely due to the Welfare and the institutional setting. On the other hand, they indicate the persistence of deep-rooted cultural developed in Italy during the parent’s childhood and transmitted to their children born and growth in a foreign Country
giu-2012
Second generation immigrants ; Transition to adulthood
Settore SECS-S/04 - Demografia
Settore SECS-S/05 - Statistica Sociale
European association for population studies (EAPS)
http://epc2012.princeton.edu/papers/120535
Out of context? The effect of deep-rooted cultural traits on the transition to adulthood among the Italian second generations in France / R. Impicciatore. ((Intervento presentato al convegno European population conference 2012 tenutosi a Stockholm nel 2012.
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