Life satisfaction among skilled transnational families before and during the COVID‐19 outbreak

Article Article scientifique Article Life satisfaction among skilled transnational families before and during the COVID‐19 outbreak eng 2022-02-02 2022-02-02 author Gerber Roxane 0000-0003-0574-9857 858155 author Ravazzini Laura 0000-0002-6205-1263 748406 10.1002/psp.2557 1544-8444 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/psp.2557 International mobility has radically changed during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Among all types of families, transnational families might have particularly suffered in 2020 during lockdowns that restricted international visits to family members. This paper focuses on the life satisfaction of skilled migrants living in Switzerland before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic. In particular, we focus on those who live longdistance transnational relationships with other family members. We investigate the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on self‐reported life satisfaction using the Swiss Migration‐Mobility Survey (MMS). We apply panel analyses using random effects over three waves of the MMS. We found that the COVID‐19 crisis negatively affected recently arrived migrants' well‐being in Switzerland in 2020. However, migrants in transnational arrangements with children abroad show higher levels of life satisfaction in 2020, in comparison with migrant non‐transnational families. When interacted with gender, this improvement of life satisfaction concerns mostly men, while women in transnational partnerships report a significantly lower level of life satisfaction in 2020. Life satisfaction COVID‐19 Migration and mobility Transnational family Gender Dewey 301 Dewey 304.6/305.3/306 122 Département de sociologie T4 195 Institut de démographie et de socioéconomie TH false Population, space and place 3d2d20af-fb13-4315-b8de-db96db75f645 Article (Published version) Public Gerber and Ravazzini 2022.pdf 1513384 application/pdf CC BY-NC-ND openAccess Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de sociologie Faculté des sciences de la société / Institut de démographie et de socioéconomie

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