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Migrants and motherhood: unveiling the fertility trends of migrant women in Italy
No full textMigrants and Motherhood: Unveiling the Fertility Trends of Foreign Women in Italy
Abstract of the thesis
This doctoral thesis investigates the fertility patterns of migrant women in Italy through a multi-dimensional approach, offering new insights and contributing significantly to the existing literature on this topic. It examines how migration has shaped Italy’s demographic trends amidst declining fertility and increasing longevity, making it particularly relevant to the country’s current socio-demographic challenges.
The first chapter establishes the theoretical framework for the empirical analyses presented in the subsequent three chapters, contextualising Italy’s declining fertility rates within broader migration trends. The chapter outlines key theories on migrant fertility behaviours and intentions and discusses them in relation to the fertility and family patterns of migrant populations in Italy. This chapter underscores the novelty of examining migrant fertility as a key factor in reshaping the country’s demographic profile over time.
The second chapter, based on data from the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) Registration for Birth in the Municipal Population Register (Rilevazione delle nascite), introduces previously unpublished data on age-specific fertility rates (ASFR) and total fertility rates (TFR) for Italy’s migrant population, focusing on the five largest foreign citizenship groups in Italy: Romanians, Albanians, Moroccans, Chinese, and Ukrainians. Through a Kitagawa decomposition analysis, the chapter reveals that the differences in fertility rates over time between citizenship groups are driven both by age structure and fertility propensity. The results show that while certain groups, such as Moroccans and Albanians, exhibit higher fertility rates than Italian women, others, like Romanians and Ukrainians, display fertility rates closer to those of Italian women, with a trend towards convergence over time. This chapter represents a significant contribution to the understanding of fertility dynamics in Italy, providing a novel quantification of compositional effects, accounting for roughly one-third of the fertility differentials between Italian and migrant births. Among the five largest foreign groups, Moroccans and Chinese show the highest rate effect, while Romanians, Albanians, and Ukrainians display a more significant compositional effect in explaining fertility differentials.
The third chapter assesses the role of access to and uptake of childcare services in shaping fertility intentions and behaviours among both native and migrant women, using data from the 2012 Birth Sample Survey conducted by ISTAT and applying multinomial logistic regression analysis. The results indicate that access to formal childcare significantly influences fertility behaviours, with mothers who accessed such services for a previous child being more likely to have higher fertility behaviours compared to those with unmet childcare needs. Notably, the use of childcare services affects native and migrant mothers differently, with native mothers being more dependent on these services, which could potentially encourage higher fertility rates. In contrast, migrant mothers' fertility seems less constrained by the lack of childcare services, suggesting differences in how childcare access affects fertility across populations. This chapter highlights the underexplored impact of childcare services on fertility, providing fresh perspectives on fertility support mechanisms
The final chapter investigates the motherhood trajectories of Albanian migrant women in Italy. Based on 30 in-depth interviews, this chapter examines how social conditions, individual characteristics, and migratory experiences shape their experiences of motherhood. Employing a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative text analysis and qualitative thematic analysis, this chapter identifies key themes such as work-family balance, childcare strategies, and socio-economic challenges. The analysis reveals four distinct motherhood configurations, ranging from full-time caregiving to significant difficulties in balancing work and family life, largely due to structural constraints in the labour market. These findings highlight the complex interplay between cultural expectations, individual agency, and structural barriers that shape the motherhood experiences of migrant women in Italy
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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