Fertility and marriage behavior in Israel: Diversity, change, and stability

Overview: We describe the fertility and marriage behavior of populations in Israel, broken down by nationality, religion, religiosity and nativity-status. Although our main focus is on a detailed presentation of fertility patterns, we also look at marriage behavior, as it is closely related to fertility in Israel..Until now, little has been documented about the basic fertility and marriage behavior of different population groups..The descriptive findings form the basis for a clearer understanding of fertility and marriage patterns in different population subgroups in Israel.

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Okum, B. (12 Mar 2013).Fertility and marriage behavior in Israel: Diversity, change, and stability.Demographic Research  (Volume 28 – Article 17 )

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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The Making of Gypsy Diasporas

Overview:

The estimated eight million Roma and Sinti living in Europe – located mostly in the Balkans and in central and Eastern Europe and commonly referred to as ‘Gypsies’ – are a widely dispersed people. They do not constitute just ‘one people’, but a mosaic of groups scattered across the world. This great dispersion of Romani groups in conjunction with their deterritorialized way of living has led a number of scholars to identify Roma as diasporic groups. And yet, very few Roma have attempted to formulate their pan-Romani identity as diasporic.

One of the main reasons why diasporic narratives failed to gain wider acceptance among the Roma so far is that these narratives bear resemblance with attempts of authorities and policymakers to mark Gypsies as ‘different’ and exclude them as undesired and undesirable‘foreigners’ who in the distant past entered Europe from India. Such labelling is by no means a thing of the past and is not confined to official authorities:in 1995 for example neo-Nazis attacked a Roma settlement in the city of Oberwart in Austria and left there a sign saying “Gypsies go back to India” (when the Roma tried to remove the sign, a bomb went off killing four of them).

However, in recent years we have also witness the rise of autochthonous diasporic discourses,especially among Roma/Gypsy activists and intellectuals.

Full Text:  http://www.dcu.ie/imrstr/volume_5_issue_1/Vol_5_Issue_1_c.doc.

Author: Paola Toninato.  Department of Italian, University of Warwick, UK

Translocations: Migration and Social Change

Volume 5 / Issue 1,  Autumn 2009

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