Measuring Marital Assimilation: Intermarriage among Natives and Immigrants

Qian, Zhenchao; Lichter, Daniel T.

doi:10.1006/ssre.2000.0699

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“…A literature review by Houston and colleagues (2005) shows that the marriage market metaphor is used to study the relative availability of suitable partners at the local (e.g., Ní Bhrolcháin et al, 2002), regional (e.g., Lichter et al,. 1991;Brien, 1997;Farley, 1999;Bratter & Zuberi, 2001), national (Ní Bhrolcháin, 2001Qian & Lichter, 2001;Rosenfeld, 2002), and international scales (e.g., Piper, 1997;Adams & Ghose, 2003).…”

Section: The Marriage Marketmentioning

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The Globalisation of Marriage Fields: The Swedish Case

Niedomysl

Östh

Ham

2010

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Marriage fields -the geographical areas where people meet to partnertraditionally tend to be relatively small and local. Increasing international travel and the use of internet have broadened the geographical opportunity structure of potential partners. This increases the risk of meeting a partner from abroad, possibly resulting in an increase of international marriage migration. This paper uses unique longitudinal population data for the whole of Sweden to explore the globalisation of Swedish marriage fields. The results show an increase of marriage migrants in Sweden between 1990 and 2004, although absolute numbers remain relatively low. The paper yields two new insights not previously recorded in the literature. The first is that we found a substantial proportion of all marriage migrants in Sweden to be males while most existing literature on marriage migration focuses almost exclusively on females. The second is that the pattern of geographical origins of marriage migrants is highly gendered with male and female marriage migrants in Sweden originating from different regions in the world. The results suggest that different mechanisms underlie male and female marriage migration.

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Section: The Marriage Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Globalisation of Marriage Fields: The Swedish Case

Niedomysl

Östh

Ham

2010

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Meanwhile, only about 13 percent of the US population is Hispanic and four percent Asian, according to the 2000 Census (Grieco and Cassidy 2001). Qian and Lichter (2001) argue that this change in the racial composition of immigrants decreased the percentage of immigrants married to the native born.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children

Furtado

2009

Research in Labor Economics

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“…Lichter and Qian (2001) argue that recent waves of U.S. immigrants have lower rates of intermarriage and may face significant barriers to assimilation than earlier waves of immigrants.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%