Jolly Good Fellows

Two recent graduates, who received prestigious national fellowships, are following in Professor Stan Herr\u27s footsteps. Their work at the Maryland Disability Law Center will benefit Baltimore\u27s handicapped community

30 Years and Counting

The Clinical Law Program matches valuable student experience with a dedication to public service. For three decades, it\u27s changed generations of lawyers for the better

Construction Nears One-Year Benchmark

As construction on the School of Law\u27s new building progresses apace, members of the law school community continue to generously support the Building Campaign. Five donors explain why they became involved

The Sky\u27s the Limit

The new building, which will open next month, will afford the School of Law community limitless opportunities-- for education, research, scholarship, public service and policy development

Remembering The Concentration Camps: Aleksander Kulisiewicz And His Concerts Of Prisoners\u27 Songs In The Federal Republic Of Germany

This chapter considers the performances of Aleksander Kulisiewicz, a Polish political prisoner who composed and collected songs in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In the 1960s and 1970s, he would perform these works on stages across Europe, with frequent appearances in East and West Germany (in front of highly diverse audiences. When compared to other forms of musical commemoration at the time, his appearances uniquely operate somewhere in between performance and historical witnessing by building on his authentic experience and profound belief in remembrance. While Kulisiewicz’s activity evolved out of his personal Holocaust experience, musicians and composers of subsequent generations also created commemorative works

First child of immigrant workers and their descendants in West Germany

This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the transition to motherhood among women from Turkey, Italy, Spain, Greece, and the former Yugoslavia in West Germany. A hazard-regression analysis is applied to data of the German Socio-Economic Panel study. We distinguish between the first and second immigrant generation. The results show that the transition rates to a first birth of first-generation immigrants are elevated shortly after they move country. Elevated birth risks that occur shortly following the immigration are traced back to an interrelation of events - these are migration, marriage, and first birth. We do not find evidence of a fertility-disruption effect after immigration. The analysis indicates that second-generation immigrants are more adapted to the lower fertility levels of West Germans than their mothers’ generation is.event history analysis, fertility, international migration, migrant workers from South/Southeastern Europe, West Germany

First child of immigrant workers and their descendants in West Germany: interrelation of events, disruption, or adaptation?

This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the transition to motherhood among women from Turkey, Italy, Spain, Greece, and the former Yugoslavia in West Germany. We apply a hazard regression analysis to data of the German Socio-Economic Panel study. We distinguish between the first and second immigrant generation. The results show that the transition rates to a first birth of first-generation immigrants are elevated shortly after they move country. We trace the elevated birth risks shortly following the immigration back to an interrelation of events – these are migration, marriage, and first birth. We do not find evidence of a fertility-disruption effect after immigration. Our analysis indicates that second-generation immigrants are more adapted to the lower fertility levels of West Germans than their mothers’ generation.Germany (Alte Bundesländer)

Family change and migration in the life course

This article is an introduction to Special Collection 6 of Demographic Research whose articles investigate the interrelations between the family and migration behaviour of individuals in industrialised countries. We first review the life-course approach and previous research on the interplay between family change and migration. We then describe the contribution of the articles in the collection. This is followed by a discussion of selected issues raised in the papers and an outline of future research avenues. We argue that the life-course approach and event-history analysis offer a fruitful framework to examine how individuals simultaneously structure their family lives and residential trajectories, and thus shape demographic change in society.event history analysis, family, fertility, life-course approach, migration, residential mobility