Household Migration and Adolescent Marriage Choice in Settings with Changing Marriage Systems

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ID2614799
AutoresErick Axxe (0000-0002-0426-5722, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave, Conway, AR, USA 72032, ()., autor correspondente), Sarah R Hayford (0000-0003-0000-7774, The Ohio State University), Dirgha J Ghimire (0000-0003-1747-9997, University of Michigan)
Ano2024
Volume55
Fascículo1
Páginas4-31
Data de publicação2024-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850
EditoraUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcfs.55.1.02
PMID40873457
OpenAlexW4404797344
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas57

This article examines the relationship between family experiences of migration and adolescents' preferences about who should make the decision about who to marry in two migrant-sending regions. Shifts in familial involvement in spouse choice, like other changes in marriage and family systems, are connected to broader social and economic changes that reduce the centrality of family relationships. Migrant household members may contribute to these changes by reorienting family relationships and interdependencies, or by exposing adolescents to new ideas and values. This study uses data collected in Gaza Province, Mozambique, and Chitwan Valley, Nepal as part of the Family Migration and Early Life Outcomes (FAMELO) project. Using logistic regression, the authors analyze variation in adolescents' preferences for familial spouse choice by multiple aspects of migration (e.g., timing, receipt of remittances), controlling for adolescent characteristics and other theoretically relevant predictors. Mozambican adolescents in migrant-sending households were more likely to prefer families to choose their spouse than those in households without migration experience. In Nepal, household migration experience was not associated with adolescent spouse-selection preferences. The findings point to a complex association between migration systems and local family structures that shapes adolescents' ideas about family relationships and their family-formation preferences

Arranged Marriage · Demographic economics · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Extended family · Interdependence · Population · Receipt · Sociology · Spouse · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Psychology · Social Psychology