Understanding Life Trajectories of Immigrants and Their Descendants in Europe and Projecting Future Trends

Project Information

MigrantLife

Grant agreement ID: 834103

DOI

10.3030/834103

EC signature date 16 May 2019

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 446 523,75

EU contribution

€ 2 446 523,75

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
United Kingdom

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Publications

Other (24)

Origin, generation, and context: Childbearing and employment changes among female immigrants and their descendants in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany

Author(s): Mikolai, J., Kulu, H., Delaporte, I., & Liu, C.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

On the timing of marriage and childbearing: Family formation pathways among immigrants in Switzerland

Author(s): Lacroix, J., Mikolai, J., & Kulu, H.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Work-migration-life balance: Patterns of immigrant labor market engagement by parity

Author(s): Liu, C., & Kulu, H.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Draft manuscript, 34 pages; available upon request

Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in three European countries

Author(s): Kulu, H., Mikolai, J., Delaporte, I., Liu, C., & Andersson G.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Childbearing across the generations of immigrants and their descendants in Sweden: A register-based study

Author(s): Höhn, A., Andersson, G., Kulu, H., & Campbell, B.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

The housing integration of asylum seekers and refugees in Germany

Author(s): Liu, C., & Kulu, H.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

The divergence of labour force participation upon motherhood among migrant descendants and natives in Germany

Author(s): Liu, C., & Kulu, H.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Poverty and the UK post-Brexit points-based immigration system

Author(s): Mikolai, J., Kulu, H., Meyer, T., & Bridgen, P.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: ESRC Centre for Population Change - Connecting Generations

Family Formation and Employment Changes among Descendants of Immigrants and Natives in France: A Multiprocess Analysis

Author(s): Delaporte, I., & Kulu, H.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Loss of Migrants’ Rights post-Brexit

Author(s): Meyer, T., Mikolai, J., Kulu, H., & Bridgen, P.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Population Europe

Shaping the Life Course: The interaction between partnerships, family building and employment among migrants and their descendants

Author(s): Christison, S., Kulu, H., Mikolai, J.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Working Life Expectancy Among the Descendants of Immigrants in the UK: A Multistate Life Course Approach

Author(s): Kulu, H., Höhn, A., & Mikolai, J.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Heterogeneity or disadvantage in partnership, childbearing, and employment trajectories of the descendants of immigrants in the United Kingdom? A multi-channel sequence analysis of longitudinal data

Author(s): Mikolai, J., & Kulu, H.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

The timing of critical life events among descendants of immigrants in Sweden: Which comes first, homeownership, marriage, or childbirth?

Author(s): Abed Al Ahad, M., Andersson, G., Kulu, H.
Published in: 2025
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Residential Relocations and Housing Changes Among Immigrants and Their Descendants: An Analysis of Register Data from France

Author(s): Delaporte, I., Pailhé, A., & Kulu, H.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Nonmarital fertility and postponement of parenthood among immigrants and their descendants in the UK. Draft manuscript.

Author(s): Koops, J., Kulu, H., & Hannemann, T.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Draft manuscript, 46 pages; available upon request

Partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants in the UK: A three-channel sequence analysis

Author(s): Mikolai, J., & Kulu, H.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Immigrant and refugee mobility across the urban-rural continuum in three European countries

Author(s): Lacroix, J., Liu, C., Abed Al Ahad, M., Andersson, G., & Kulu, H
Published in: 2025
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Analysing migrants’ fertility behaviour using Machine Learning Techniques: An application of Random Survival Forest to French data

Author(s): Delaporte, I., & Kulu, H.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Residential Mobility and Housing Tenure Changes Among Immigrants and Their Descendants: A Cross-National Analysis of Five European Countries

Author(s): Delaporte, I., Kulu, H., Mikolai, J., Liu, C., Abed Al Ahad, M., Lacroix, J., Andersson, G., & Pailhé, A.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Residential mobility and housing changes among immigrants and their descendants in the United Kingdom

Author(s): Mikolai, J., & Kulu, H.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

The interconnection of homeownership, marriage and childbearing in the life courses of young adults, by country of origin and generation in Sweden

Author(s): Abed Al Ahad, M., Andersson, G., & Kulu, H.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Projection of migrant family life-courses in England and Wales using multistate models and microsimulation

Author(s): Ibbetson, A., Kulu, H., Mikolai, J.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Homeownership Across Immigrant Groups and Generations in Sweden: Assimilation or Segmentation?

Author(s): Abed Al Ahad, M., Andersson, G., & Kulu, H.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: MigrantLife Project

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Intermarriage and housing upon separation. A matter of resources and bargaining power?

Author(s): Lacroix, J., Mikolai, J., & Kulu, H.
Published in: Journal of Marriage and Family, 2024, ISSN 0022-2445
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12985

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Family Formation and Employment Changes Among Descendants of Immigrants in France: A Multiprocess Analysis

Author(s): Isaure Delaporte, Hill Kulu
Published in: European Journal of Population, Issue 40, 2024, ISSN 0168-6577
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10680-024-09709-3

Spatial patterns of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 mortality across waves of infection in England, Wales, and Scotland

Author(s): Mikolai, J., Dorey, P., Keenan, K., & Kulu, H.
Published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2023, ISSN 0277-9536
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116330

Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in three European countries: A multistate approach in comparative research

Author(s): Hill Kulu, Julia Mikolai, Isaure Delaporte, Chia Liu, Gunnar Andersson
Published in: Population Studies, 2024, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 0032-4728
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2024.2345059

The spatial-temporal effect of air pollution on individuals’ reported health and its variation by ethnic groups in the United Kingdom

Author(s): Abed Al Ahad, M., Demšar, D., Sullivan, F., & Kulu, H.
Published in: BMC Public Health, 2023, ISSN 1471-2458
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-15853-y

The partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants in the United Kingdom: An intersectional life course approach using three-channel sequence analysis

Author(s): Julia Mikolai, Hill Kulu
Published in: Demographic Research, Issue 53, 2025, Page(s) 261-306, ISSN 1435-9871
Publisher: Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research/Max-Planck-institut fur Demografische Forschung
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2025.53.10

Cognitive impairment and partnership status in the United States, 1998-2016, by sex, race/ethnicity, and education.

Author(s): Sharma, S., Hale, J., Myrskylä, M., & Kulu, H.
Published in: Population Studies, 2024, ISSN 0032-4728
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2023.2174267

The war, refugees, and the future of Ukraine's population

Author(s): Kulu, H., Christison, S., Liu, C., Mikolai, J.
Published in: Population, Space and Place, 2023, ISSN 1544-8452
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/psp.2656

All-cancer incidence and mortality in Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and their descendants in England and Wales

Author(s): Joseph Harrison, Frank Sullivan, Katherine Keenan, Hill Kulu
Published in: BMC Public Health, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1471-2458
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-20813-1

Childbearing Across Immigrants and Their Descendants in Sweden: The Role of Generation and Gender

Author(s): Höhn, A., Andersson, G., Kulu, H., & Campbell, B
Published in: International Migration Review, 2024, ISSN 0197-9183
Publisher: Center for Migration Studies
DOI: 10.1177/01979183241245072

Long-term exposure to air pollution and mortality in Scotland: A register-based individual-level longitudinal study

Author(s): Abed Al Ahad, M., Demsar, U., Sullivan, F., & Kulu, H.
Published in: Environmental Research, 2023, ISSN 0013-9351
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117223

Social and spatial inequalities in health and mortality: The analysis of longitudinal register data from selected European countries.

Author(s): Keenan, K., Kulu, H. & Cox, F.
Published in: Population, Space and Place, 2021, Page(s) 10, ISSN 1544-8452
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/psp.2411

Interaction between childbearing and partnership trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in France: An application of multichannel sequence analysis

Author(s): Delaporte, I., Kulu, H.
Published in: Population Studies, 2022, Page(s) 16, ISSN 0032-4728
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2022.2049856

Racial, Ethnic, Nativity, and Educational Disparities in Cognitive Impairment and Activity Limitations in the United States, 1998–2016

Author(s): Sharma, S., Hale, J. M., Myrskylä, M., & Kulu, H.
Published in: Demography, 2023, ISSN 0070-3370
Publisher: Population Association of America
DOI: 10.1215/00703370-10941414

Union formation and fertility amongst immigrants from Pakistan and their descendants in the United Kingdom: A multichannel sequence analysis

Author(s): Harrison, J., Keenan, K., Sullivan, F., & Kulu, H
Published in: Demographic Research, 2023, Page(s) 271-320, ISSN 1435-9871
Publisher: Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research/Max-Planck-institut fur Demografische Forschung
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2023.48.10

Partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrants and descendants in the United Kingdom: A multilevel multistate event history approach.

Author(s): Mikolai, J., & Kulu, H.
Published in: Population Studies, 2022, ISSN 0032-4728
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2022.2144639

Competing Family Pathways for Immigrants and Their Descendants in Germany

Author(s): Liu, C., Kulu, H.
Published in: International Migration Review, 2023, ISSN 0197-9183
Publisher: Center for Migration Studies
DOI: 10.1177/01979183231161600

Book chapters (1)

Family behavior of migrants: An overview

Author(s): Andersson, G.
Published in: Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Family, 2021, Page(s) 263-277, ISBN 9781788975537
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781788975544.00026