Puerto Rican Intergroup Marriage and Residential Segregation in the U.S.: A Multilevel Analysis of Structural, Cultural, and Economic Factors

Abstract

This study examines intermarriage patterns of Puerto Ricans who reside in the United States (referred to as stateside Puerto Ricans) and discusses the implications of these patterns for practice with this community. Because Puerto Ricans experience higher levels of intermarriage than other Latino groups, an analysis of out-marriage factors for Puerto Ricans yields important considerations for the future of Latino integration within U.S. society.

The formation of ethnically mixed partnerships in Estonia: A stalling trend from a two-sided perspective

“…In addition, enrolment in Estonian-language schools markedly increased the chances of having a majority partner. These findings were not surprising since the positive effect of host country language-acquisition on immigrant intermarriage has been reported in several studies (Stevens and Swicegood 1987;Kulczycki and Lobo 2002;Hujink, Verkuyten, and Coenders 2010;De Jesús et al 2014). More remarkably, consideration of the ancestry of the minority population, and exposure to the majority language in particular, either in the parental home or at school, wholly removed the intergenerational increase in the likelihood of ethnically mixed partnerships.…”