Marital Assimilation Among Hispanics: Evidence of Declining Cultural and Economic Incorporation?^*

Abstract

We document intermarriage patterns between Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites over the 1990 to 2000 period in 155 U.S. metropolitan areas and evaluate the effects of spatial, cultural, and economic assimilation on interdecade changes in intermarriage. We hypothesize that changes in Hispanic-white intermarriage during the 1990s reflect changing spatial, cultural, and economic assimilation among U.S. Hispanics. Copyright (c) 2007 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.

Padrões de casamento dos imigrantes brasileiros residentes em Portugal

“…Muitos dos estudos que abordam as questões relacionadas com a integração dos imigrantes, e em particular os casamentos mistos, têm origem na realidade de países que são tradicionalmente de imigração, como os Estados Unidos ou o Canadá (BLAU et al, 1982;SAENZ, 1994;HWANG et al, 1997;PAGNINI;MORGAN, 1990;QIAN;LICHTER, 2001;JACOBS;LABOV, 2002;LICHTER et al, 2007, para citar apenas alguns). Na Europa, e em especial em Portugal e Espanha (onde o fenômeno da imigração é relativamente jovem), esta temática tem sido menos abordada.…”

Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

“…Furthermore, we link identity formation with homogamous marriages along ethnic and religious traits. It has indeed been extensively documented that interracial marriage is typically considered as a sign of inclination toward cultural assimilation (see, in particular, Al-Johar, 2005; Qian, 1999; Meng and Gregory, 2005;Lichter et al, 2007;Tucker and Mitchell-Kernan, 1990) and that marriage choices are at least in part determined by parents' preferences to socialize their children to their own trait (Bisin, Topa, and Verdier, 2004, and the evidence cited in Bisin and Verdier, 2000).…”

The interplay of spatial diffusion and marital assimilation of Mexicans in the United States, 1980–2011

“…Mexican-Mexican unions) between 1970 and 1990 suggestive of progressive assimilation, leading the author to 'consider whether Mexican Americans are becoming white' (Rosenfeld 2002, 160). More recent studies paint a less optimistic picture of the subsequent decades and report declines in Hispanic/white intermarriage during the 1990s with intermarriage rates declining from 27% to 20% Lichter et al 2007). This decline was largely driven by the marriage patterns of foreign-born Hispanics.…”

“…Until the 1990s, the rate of Mexican 1 /white intermarriage steadily increased suggesting progressive structural assimilation (Rosenfeld 2002). More recent studies, however, paint a less optimistic picture of the subsequent decades and report 'unprecedented declines' in Mexican/white intermarriage during the 1990s (Qian and Lichter 2007, 90;Lichter et al 2007). Albeit at comparatively high levels, Mexican/white intermarriages rates have since stalled.…”

“…As a test of the role of relative group size, Lichter et al (2007) use aggregate data from 155 metropolitan areas for 1990 and 2000 to estimate how changes in structural factors and city-level characteristics affect the aggregate rate of intermarriage in metropolitan areas. Their findings suggest that any trend in intermarriage rates across metropolitan areas can be attributed to structural conditions and socioeconomic measures of assimilation.…”