Pathways to family formation of international migrants in Spain
Abstract
Recent research has stressed the importance of families in understanding contemporary patterns of international migration and the strengthening of transnational family bonds. In spite of this, there is a need for a quantitative assessment of the family circumstances upon entry and after arrival. In this paper, we analyze union formation and propose a framework of the pathways in which migrants in Spain are classified according to their union status before, during and after migration. Logistic regression is used to analyze data from the National Immigration Survey (2007) for 15,384 international migrants. Results show that age at migration, sex and origin account for most differences in migrants’ pathways to union formation. When controlling for age at migration and other socioeconomic traits, women are more likely than men to be in union at the time of migration and to take part in a family-related migration. African immigrants show the highest differences between men and women in family migration patterns while there are almost no differences by sex among Latin Americans and Europeans. Differences by region of origin appear when examining the likelihoods of joint migration and second spouse regrouping.Keywords
international migration, marriage, family, Spain.References
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