In being representative of individuals’ demographic value orientations, fertility preferences provide information about immigrants’ adaptation to family formation patterns in the destination country at a deeper, ideational level than actual fertility does. Using data from Wave 1 of the Swedish GGS from 2012/2013 (n=3,932), this study compares the first, 1.5, and second generations with either one or two foreign-born parent(s) to Swedes without an immigrant background by gender and across origins. Binary logistic regression is used to compare the propensity to state a positive fertility intention, and partial proportional odds models are used to analyse differences across four ordinal intention categories (definitely/probably yes/no). Results show a general tendency towards convergence from the relatively positive intentions of the first generation to levels closer to non-immigrants in later generations, although complete convergence is only found for the second generation with one foreign-born parent. There are gender differences, with women being similar to non-immigrants by the 1.5 generation, while there is no clear intergenerational trend for men. Among origin groups, convergence is evident among Eastern Europeans and “other non-Europeans”, while Westerners already are similar to non-immigrants in the first generation, and Middle Easterners/North Africans display no clear intergenerational trend. This study contributes to the understanding of immigrant fertility by showing that there often is intergenerational adaptation at the ideational (i.e. preference) level, that the pace and extent of convergence vary by gender and across origins, and that group-level patterns found for fertility intentions do not always match those found in earlier research on fertility behaviour.   *    This article belongs to a special issue on migrant fertility.

中文翻译：

---

瑞典移民世代的生育意愿。适应模式是否因性别和出身而异？

作为个人人口价值取向的代表，生育偏好在比实际生育率更深的概念层面提供了有关移民适应目的地国家家庭形成模式的信息。使用来自 2012/2013 年瑞典 GGS 第一轮的数据（n=3,932），本研究按性别比较了有一个或两个外国出生父母的第一代、1.5 代和第二代与没有移民背景的瑞典人并跨越起源。二元逻辑回归用于比较陈述积极生育意图的倾向，部分比例优势模型用于分析四个顺序意图类别（肯定/可能是/否）之间的差异。结果表明，从第一代相对积极的意图趋同到后几代更接近非移民的水平，尽管仅在有一个外国出生的父母的第二代中发现了完全的趋同。存在性别差异，女性到 1.5 代与非移民相似，而男性没有明显的代际趋势。在原籍群体中，东欧人与“其他非欧洲人”之间趋同明显，而西方人已经与第一代非移民相似，中东人/北非人没有明显的代际趋势。这项研究通过表明在概念（即偏好）水平上经常存在代际适应，有助于理解移民生育能力，趋同的速度和程度因性别和出身而异，而且为生育意图发现的群体水平模式并不总是与早期生育行为研究中发现的模式相匹配。* 本文属于流动人口生育特刊。