Resumen de Reunifying Versus Living Apart Together Across Borders: A Comparative Analysis of sub-Saharan Migration to Europe.

Chris Beauchemin, Jocelyn Nappa, Bruno choumaker, Pau Baizán, Amparo González Ferrer, Kim Caarls, Valentina Mazzucato

• This article studies the process of reunification in Europe among 'living apart together across borders' ( LATAB) couples of African origin ( DR Congo, Ghana, and Senegal). Couple reunion is conceived as a multilevel process, wherein state selection (through immigration policies in destination countries) interacts with self-selection (at the couple level), under influence of the social context at origin. Based on event history analyses of the MAFE project, empirical results show that LATAB is a majority and durable living arrangement for sub-Saharan migrants, that the odds if reunifying depend on gender and inter-generational relationships, and that restrictive contexts at destination do not deter couple reunion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]