Immigration Gender and Family Transitions to Adulthood in Sweden

This work features an in-depth quantitative and qualitative set of studies on family issues in early adulthood among young adults born in Sweden of Swedish Polish and Turkish origins. The results are analyzed to explore the educational attainment of Swedish young adults of different origins their transitions to marriage and cohabitation inter-ethnic partnering and the balance between work and family.<BR /><BR />The quantitative analyses are further enhanced by anthropologists' examinations of transitions to adulthood by young men and women. These analyses add depth to the survey findings and are the basis for creating a new understanding of the diversity among these communities in Sweden. This integrated volume represents the work of an interdisciplinary team of demographers sociologists and anthropologists whose findings are compared to immigration and family transitions in Sweden Norway and other similar communities throughout Europe.