Melting Pot or Salad Bowl? An Overview of Mixed Families in Sweden

Due to globalization and international migration from Sweden, the option choose a life partner who is of migrant background has been increasing in Sweden. Despite growth greater ethnic racial diversity mixed marriages however, few researchers have studied such unions any great extent. This article focuses on which one person Swedish other different or background. It questions whether Sweden becoming what metaphorically described as melting pot salad bowl. The article, first, includes meta-analysis existing research marriage families These studies present actual numbers patterns socioeconomic status well attitudes toward marriage. second part turns analysis 2014 register data, shows how factors gender, country origin, immigrant generation affect composition families.