Integration involves a trade-off between fertility and status for World War II evacuees.
Journal
Nature human behaviour
ISSN: 2397-3374
Titre abrégé: Nat Hum Behav
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101697750
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2019
04 2019
Historique:
received:
20
04
2018
accepted:
23
01
2019
entrez:
12
4
2019
pubmed:
12
4
2019
medline:
23
11
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Understanding how refugees integrate into host societies has broad implications for researchers interested in intergroup conflict and for governments concerned with promoting social cohesion. Using detailed records tracking the movements and life histories of Finnish evacuees during World War II, we find that evacuees who intermarry are more likely to be educated, work in professional occupations, marry someone higher in social status and remain in the host community. Evacuees who intermarry before the war have fewer children, whereas those who marry into their host community after the war have more children. These results indicate that life-history and assimilation outcomes depend on key differences between pre-war environments-when migrants are living in their own communities-and post-war environments-when migrants are living in the host community. Overall, this suggests that integration involves a trade-off between reproduction and status such that evacuees who integrate gain social status, whereas those who maintain stronger bonds with their natal communities have higher fertility. We discuss these results within the framework of social capital, intergroup conflict and life-history theory and suggest how they can inform our understanding of evolutionary adaptations that affect tribalism.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30971788
doi: 10.1038/s41562-019-0542-5
pii: 10.1038/s41562-019-0542-5
doi:
Types de publication
Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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Pagination
337-345Commentaires et corrections
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