%0 Journal Article
%T Cultural influence, economic security, and the fertility behavior of the Chinese in Canada
%A Tang
%A Zongli
%J Canadian Studies in Population
%D 2001
%I Canadian Population Society
%X English This study explores interactions of cultural influence and economic insecurity and their effects on the fertility behavior of the Chinese in Canada. The importance of group context on the actions of individuals is measured through data from the PUST of the 1971 and1991 Canadian Censuses. Contextual analysis and random coefficient models are the major statistical tools employed to achieve the above objectives. The Chinese-Canadians are compared to the British-Canadians, who are used as the reference group. The findings suggest that Chinese reproductive norms with pronatalist endowments exert strong influence on the fertility behavior of the Chinese in Canada.This influence effectively counteracts the negative effects of economic insecurity and encourages Chinese immigrants to quickly recover their fertility deficit after the initial immigration stage. The effects of the origin culture on fertility diminish with increasing exposure to the host society.However, even among the native-born or Canadian-born Chinese, the influence of Chinese reproductive norms is still present though not as strong as among the foreign-born Chinese. French Cette ¨¦tude explore les interactions de l'influence culturelle et de l'ins¨¦curit¨¦¨¦conomique et leurs effets sur le comportement procr¨¦ateur des Chinois auCanada. L'importance d'un contexte de groupe sur les actions des individus estmesur¨¦e au moyen de donn¨¦es provenant de la BEGD (bande-¨¦chantillon ¨¤grande diffusion) des recensements canadiens de 1971 et 1991. L'analysecontextuelle et les coefficients de mod¨¨les au hasard constituent les principauxoutils statistiques employ¨¦s pour atteindre les objectifs susmentionn¨¦s. Les Sino-Canadiens sont compar¨¦s aux habitants de la Colombie-Britannique qui serventde groupe t¨¦moin. Les conclusions indiquent que les normes de reproduction ¨¤action nataliste exercent une forte influence sur le comportement procr¨¦ateur desChinois au Canada. Cette influence contrebalance efficacement les effetsn¨¦gatifs de l'ins¨¦curit¨¦ ¨¦conomique et encourage les immigrants chinois ¨¤ seremettre rapidement de leur manque de f¨¦condit¨¦ apr¨¨s la premi¨¨re ¨¦tape del'immigration. Les effets de la culture d'origine sur la f¨¦condit¨¦ diminuent avecl'exposition ¨¤ la nouvelle soci¨¦t¨¦ h te. Cependant, m¨ºme parmi les Sino-Canadiens n¨¦s en Chine ou n¨¦s au Canada, l'influence des normes dereproduction chinoises demeure pr¨¦sente quoique moins forte que chez lesChinois n¨¦s ¨¤ l'¨¦tranger.
%K fertility
%K culture
%K discrimination
%K contextual analysis
%K Chinese in Canada
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