title: [The fecundity of immigrants to Argentina, the French of Tandil, 1860-1914].
abstract: Based on the reconstitution of families of French immigrants who settled in Tandil (Buenos Aires) during the great wave of immigration, this article examines the migrants' fertility. Legitimate births, descendants, proto and intergenesiacal intervals as well as the maternal ages at the final delivery are successively analyzed. The results are then compared with data gathered in the French regime from which the immigrants came. The application of the method perfected by Louis Henry makes possible a micro-discussion of certain hypotheses connecting the demographic transition in Argentina with the arrival of European immigrants. The article's main findings are that there was no voluntary birth control among the immigrants and the determination of their birthrate, which was midway between that existing in their native regions in France and that of the local population in Argentina.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Estudios Historico-Sociales de la Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Otero
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000266:history*; D005298:Fertility; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century
vernacular_title: La fécondité des immigrants en Argentine, les Français de Tandil, 1860-1914.