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Extra-marital fertility and family structure in different second and third generation migrant groups

Polly McKinlay and Christiaan Monden, Univ of Oxford

(Project no. 1006749)

Understanding differences in family structure between different groups will help us understand the social mobility experiences of different groups, the transmission of cultural norms through different groups, the needs of different communities and how these are changing. Particular attention will be paid to the African Carribean group who have a much higher rate of extra marital fertility, and how this is changing as the African-Carribean mixed population grows.

However current data has shortcomings: there is no data that covers births post-2000, that pays any particular attention to mixed ethnicity groups, that controls for factors such as social class, or that examines 2nd and 3rd generation migrants in particular or attempts to make a distinction between different generations.