Background: In an increasingly interconnected world, understanding the formation of transnational orientations is of great importance. Attitudes toward transnational intermarriage are telling of people’s view of the transnational world and their perceived social distance between countries and regions. Objective: The purpose of this research is to identify the holistic formations of Chinese peop...

Social cohesion theory is tested using data on ethnic intermarriage in former Yugoslavia. Before the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the proportion of marriages outside the own ethnic group was generally low, but in this respect large differences among the groups existed. The proportion of mixed marriages with a Serbian partner was much higher among the Montenegrins and Hungarians than among the ...

Although intermarriage is a commonly used indicator of immigrant integration into host societies, most research has focused on how individual characteristics determine intermarriage. This study uses the 1-910 IPUMS census sample to analyze how contextual factors affected intermarriage among European immigrants in the United States. We use newly-available complete-count census mircodata to const...

The Parsis, a community of Iranian descent, are an important ethno-religious minority group in India. Over the past few decades this group has shown a sharp numerical decline. The Parsis in India are endogamous and children of women married outside the community are traditionally not accepted within the fold. This paper appraises the potential impact of female intermarriage in Parsi population ...

Exploiting the 2005 Mikrozensus, the first dataset to allow the full disaggregation of different immigrant origin groups in Germany, this paper examines the effect of context of reception, citizenship, and intermarriage on the labor force participation, employment, and occupational status of the children of immigrants in Germany. Most second generation men have much higher unemployment than nat...

Gender, Race, and the West 12 December 2014 Passions, Property, and Power: Mexican-Anglo Marriage in the Spanish Borderlands Interracial unions, as well as the legal and social prohibitions against such unions, reflect the ways in which societies consolidate power and regulate domestic arrangements. In the southwest, the study of intermarriage illuminates the intersection of race, gender, and c...