Dissertation Research: Migration, Fertility Transition and Change in the Life Course among Ethiopian Jewish Women in Israel

1991年将15，000名埃塞俄比亚犹太人空运到特拉维夫 提供了一个绝佳的机会来研究 社会变革对妇女生殖职业的影响。 在埃塞俄比亚 犹太妇女结婚早，生孩子早， 高生育率，趋势与以色列犹太妇女相反。 该项目有两个主要目标。 一是量化 经济、教育和机会变化的影响 生育决定的结构。 第二个是 提供一个定性的民族志背景， 这些决定是基于对女性生活的分析 历史 生命历程的重组， 在婚育模式、追求教育、 和就业经验，建议占 年龄较大的妇女在生育制度方面的差异， 在埃塞俄比亚开始了生育生涯， 在以色列开始生育的妇女。 本研究中收集的数据将从 一系列有针对性的开放式采访， 提供完整的移民，居住， 教育、就业和生育率。 的细节 埃塞俄比亚犹太人口的移民历史， 包括突然而不是渐进的社会、经济 和技术变革，提供了一个独特的机会， 关于影响因素的假设 人口转型 因此，本研究将提供 社会变革、文化和社会 价值观和与生殖有关的个人行为 和生育能力。

The 1991 airlift of 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Tel Aviv presents a remarkable opportunity to study the impact of social change on women's reproductive careers. In Ethiopia Jewish women married young, bore children early, and had high fertility, trends opposite of Israeli Jewish women. This project has two major goals. The first is to quantify the effect of changes in economy, education, and opportunity structure on fertility decisions. And the second is to provide a qualitative ethnographic context for understanding those decisions based on an analysis of women's life histories. A restructuring of the life course, as reflected in marriage and childbearing patters, pursuit of education, and employment experience, is proposed to account for differences in fertility regimes between older women who began their child bearing careers in Ethiopia and younger women who have begun their child bearing careers in Israel. The data collected in this study will be generated from a series of directed and open-ended interviews that will provide a complete life history of immigrations, residence, education, employment, and fertility. The details of the immigration history of the Ethiopian Jewish population, including an abrupt rather than a gradual social, economic, and technical change, provide a unique opportunity to test hypotheses regarding the factors that influence the demographic transition. Thus, this study will provide critical linkages between social transformation, cultural values, and individual behaviors pertaining to reproduction and fertility.