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Group Normative Propensities, Societal Positioning, and Childbearing: Ethno‑linguistic Variation in Completed and Desired Fertility in Transitional Central Asia

Considerable research in western, low-fertility contexts has examined minority-vs.-majority fertility differentials, typically focusing on minority groups’ cultural idiosyncrasies and on socioeconomic disadvantages associated with minority status. However, the formation and functioning of ethnic com...

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Autores principales: Agadjanian, Victor, Nedoluzhko, Lesia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10468155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37649791
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11113-022-09701-x
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description Considerable research in western, low-fertility contexts has examined minority-vs.-majority fertility differentials, typically focusing on minority groups’ cultural idiosyncrasies and on socioeconomic disadvantages associated with minority status. However, the formation and functioning of ethnic complexities outside the western world often diverge from the standard western model and so may their impact on fertility preferences, behavior, and outcomes. We expand on the previous research by analyzing ethnic variation in completed and desired fertility in the multiethnic transitional setting of Kyrgyzstan, where ethnic groups and their ethnolinguistic subparts are characterized by both different stages of the demographic transition and different positioning in the socioeconomic and political hierarchies. Using combined data from two rounds of a nationally representative survey, we find that ethnic-specific levels of completed fertility generally align with culturally shaped group-level normative propensities. In contrast, in desires to have a(nother) child, the ranking of the ethnic segments is more reflective of their collective societal positioning, with more disadvantaged segments having lower fertility desires, regardless of actual number of children and various other characteristics. We also find that ethnic homophily of respondents’ social milieu and their optimism about the future of their ethnic group are positively associated with fertility desires, even though these associations are more potently present among women, compared to men. We relate our findings to the extant scholarship and reflect on their implications for a better understanding of ethno-racial fertility dynamics and differentials in transitional contexts.
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spelling pubmed-104681552023-08-30 Group Normative Propensities, Societal Positioning, and Childbearing: Ethno‑linguistic Variation in Completed and Desired Fertility in Transitional Central Asia Agadjanian, Victor Nedoluzhko, Lesia Popul Res Policy Rev Article Considerable research in western, low-fertility contexts has examined minority-vs.-majority fertility differentials, typically focusing on minority groups’ cultural idiosyncrasies and on socioeconomic disadvantages associated with minority status. However, the formation and functioning of ethnic complexities outside the western world often diverge from the standard western model and so may their impact on fertility preferences, behavior, and outcomes. We expand on the previous research by analyzing ethnic variation in completed and desired fertility in the multiethnic transitional setting of Kyrgyzstan, where ethnic groups and their ethnolinguistic subparts are characterized by both different stages of the demographic transition and different positioning in the socioeconomic and political hierarchies. Using combined data from two rounds of a nationally representative survey, we find that ethnic-specific levels of completed fertility generally align with culturally shaped group-level normative propensities. In contrast, in desires to have a(nother) child, the ranking of the ethnic segments is more reflective of their collective societal positioning, with more disadvantaged segments having lower fertility desires, regardless of actual number of children and various other characteristics. We also find that ethnic homophily of respondents’ social milieu and their optimism about the future of their ethnic group are positively associated with fertility desires, even though these associations are more potently present among women, compared to men. We relate our findings to the extant scholarship and reflect on their implications for a better understanding of ethno-racial fertility dynamics and differentials in transitional contexts. 2022-08 2022-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10468155/ /pubmed/37649791 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11113-022-09701-x Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title_fullStr Group Normative Propensities, Societal Positioning, and Childbearing: Ethno‑linguistic Variation in Completed and Desired Fertility in Transitional Central Asia
title_full_unstemmed Group Normative Propensities, Societal Positioning, and Childbearing: Ethno‑linguistic Variation in Completed and Desired Fertility in Transitional Central Asia
title_short Group Normative Propensities, Societal Positioning, and Childbearing: Ethno‑linguistic Variation in Completed and Desired Fertility in Transitional Central Asia
title_sort group normative propensities, societal positioning, and childbearing: ethno‑linguistic variation in completed and desired fertility in transitional central asia
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37649791
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11113-022-09701-x
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