Migration, Kinship Networks, and Reproduction in Nigeria

通常，发展中国家从农村到城市的移民往往伴随着向核心家庭的转变和生育率下降。但在撒哈拉以南非洲，生育率并不总是随着城市化而下降，这似乎与移民与家乡村庄保持的高度活跃的社会和经济联系有关。利用人类学人口学，该项目将调查尼日利亚城市移民及其农村之间的亲属关系网络如何影响生育率(生育率)。这项研究的重点是六个讲伊博语的村庄及其移民到尼日利亚北部最大城市卡诺的情况。PI将采用生命周期方法来审查四个主要生命阶段(青春期、婚姻、生育和停止生育)中的每一个阶段如何导致不同的文化、行为和生殖健康问题，以及不同的迁徙行为模式。方法包括对400户农村家庭的随机调查和对卡诺所有有关联的流动家庭的调查，以及收集生活史和参与观察。调查将引出生育率和迁移史，并探索家庭之间的社会和经济互动。这项研究将有助于我们理解农村向城市的迁移塑造了发展中国家的生育模式。

Typically, rural to urban migration in the developing world is often accompanied by a shift to nuclear families and reduced fertility. But in sub-Saharan Africa, fertility does not always decline with urbanization and this appears to be associated with the highly active, social and economic ties migrants maintain with home villages. Using anthropological demography, this project will investigate how reproductive rates (fertility) are influenced by the kinship networks that link urban migrants and their rural villages in Nigeria. The research focuses on six Igbo-speaking villages and their migrants to Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria. The PI will adopt a life cycle approach to examine how each of the four major life stages (adolescence, marriage, child-bearing, and cessation of child-bearing) entail different cultural, behavioral and reproductive health issues, as well different patterns of migratory behavior. Methods include a random survey of 400 rural households and a survey of all linked migrant households in Kano, as well as collection of life histories and participant observation. Surveys will elicit fertility and migration histories and explore social and economic interactions between households. This research will contribute to our understanding of rural to urban migration shapes fertility patterns in the developing world.