Different Contexts and Trends: Latina Immigrant Fertility in the US and Spain

Abstract

This article provides the first cross‐national assessment of Latina immigrant fertility trends. Specifically, we compare Ecuadorian women in Spain (EiS) to Mexican women in the United States (MiUS). We focus on these two groups because they (1) have similar socio‐economic profiles and (2) are the largest Latina subgroups in their respective host countries. We show that since 2001, the fertility rate of EiS has declined substantially more than the fertility rate of MiUS has. Drawing on census and administrative data in both countries, we assess four factors that might explain this difference: economic cycles, linguistic affinity, labor market participation, and education. We argue that labor market and education factors can best help to explain Latina fertility patterns. We conclude by discussing the findings with regard to contemporary arguments about Latino culture and immigrant fertility, and by describing the study's policy implications.

Declined Total Fertility Rate Among Immigrants and the Role of Newly Arrived Women in Norway

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La fecundidad completa de las inmigrantes latinoamericanas y sus descendientes en España

“…En España, aunque las inmigrantes magrebíes sí que tienen una ampliamente mayor fecundidad que las españolas, las latinoamericanas solo muestran una ligera mayor fecundidad (Castro Martín y Rosero-Bixby, 2011;Roig Vila y Castro Martín, 2007). Esta reducida diferencia se ha tratado de explicar aludiendo a factores clave como la existencia de una motivación laboral en la mayoría de inmigrantes latinoamericanas (Del Rey Poveda et al, 2015;González-Ferrer, 2011;González Ferrer y Cebolla Boado, 2018; Grande y García González, 2019) y al hecho de que en la mayoría de los casos exista una cercanía cultural en términos de idioma y religión, lo que facilitaría la convergencia hacia el comportamiento de las nativas (Adsera y Ferrer, 2014;Connor y Massey, 2010;Cristina Mora et al, 2018;González Ferrer y Cebolla Boado, 2018;Kraus y Castro-Martín, 2018). Por otro lado, las inmigrantes latinoamericanas sí que mantienen ciertos comportamientos relacionados con la maternidad propios de sus países de origen, como sería la elevada prevalencia de uniones consensuales (Cortina Trilla et al, 2010).…”