GENUS is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal of population sciences.
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While Sweden is making language a requirement for citizenship, new study shows immigrants engage with SFI differently, reflecting motivations, inequalities, and challenges in accessing SFI and integration opportunities.
👉 Check the new paper by Samaneh Khaef
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Uncertainty is not just economic - and neither is fertility.
The Thematic Series “The Inequality of Uncertainty” shows why a multidimensional and stratified approach is crucial to understand how uncertainty shapes family dynamics.
👇 Here's the intro to the TS
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New paper by @rishabhtyagi10.bsky.social, @peibich.bsky.social, @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social
Using German longitudinal data, they find that involuntary job loss substantially increases the risk of marital dissolution. Little evidence of variation by gender norms.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
For trans people, parenthood rates vary by age, peaking at 41% for trans men aged 45–49 and 43% for trans women aged 50–64, about half the rates of cisgender peers.
👉 New publication by @ylvamoberg.bsky.social, Tilley, & von Essen about Sweden 🇸🇪
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📣 New publication by @mimmilou.bsky.social:
👉 In Sweden and Norway, non-Western migrants, especially men, are more likely to report positive fertility intentions under conditions of uncertainty - such as holding non-permanent contracts or anticipating job loss.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Double surnames have been legal in Italy since 2022.
Why are they still rare?
👉 A new study by Carriero, Dotti Sani, Ladini & Molteni shows that social expectations, more than legal change, shape people’s choices.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New publication! 🔥
Drawing on interviews with French same-sex couples, Carreira (@cris-sciencespo.bsky.social) analyses how social class shapes mothers’ stigma management in schooling, generating inequalities in access to protection against homophobia.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Does the wealthy have more children❓
New Swedish register evidence shows only modest fertility gaps by wealth, but higher wealth among the childless, in particular among childless women - by @martinkolk.bsky.social
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New publication by Ambrosetti (@elelona.bsky.social) & Hans Dietrich:
👉 The recent refugees’ inflow and the life satisfaction of residents in Germany
Open access link:
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
