ABSTRACT
Fertility changes of migrants have long provided fertile ground for demographers. The sharp transition from one society to another, with the accompanying changes in individual status as well as the more obvious contextual differences, are of great interest to those studying fertility dynamics. Societies usually change at a slower rate than the changes experienced by migrants, so migrants provide a picture of fertility changes in a rapidly changing context. Israel, as a largely immigrant society, provides a perfect case study of the fertility changes experienced by migrants. In addition to the large numbers of migrants, the registration of vital events is of a high quality, including migration that is notoriously difficult to track. Israel has the added advantage of having received migration waves from countries with vastly differing fertility regimes, both from one another and from that in Israel.
