{"id":43870,"date":"2015-11-12T16:40:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43870"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:41:28","slug":"intermarriage-and-integration-revisited-international-experiences-and-cross-disciplinary-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43870","title":{"rendered":"Intermarriage and Integration Revisited: International Experiences and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\/content\/662\/1.toc\">Intermarriage and Integration Revisited: International Experiences and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\/content\/662\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 662, November 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guest Edited by:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gent.uab.cat\/dan\/content\/eng\"><strong>Dan Rodr\u00edguez-Garc\u00eda<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Social and Cultural Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\/content\/662\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\/content\/662\/1\/F1.medium.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intermarriage has been a subject of study in the social sciences for more than a century. \u00a0Conventional wisdom (and some scattered research) holds that intermarriage is important to the \u00a0social integration of immigrants and minority peoples in majority cultures and economies, but we still have a great deal to learn about dynamics of intermarriage and integration. Which groups are \u00a0more likely to intermarry? Does crossing racial, ethno-cultural, national, religious or class \u00a0boundaries at the intimate level lead to greater integration of individuals and groups that have not \u00a0been considered part of the societal mainstream?<\/p>\n<p>This special issue of <em>The ANNALS<\/em> investigates the intermarriage\/integration nexus. The \u00a0research within shows the extent to which intermarriage is related to pluralism, cultural diversity, \u00a0and social inclusion\/exclusion in the twenty-first century; we also evaluate the impact that mixed \u00a0marriages, families, and individuals have on shaping and transforming modern societies. We \u00a0identify patterns and outcomes of intermarriage in both North America and Europe, detecting \u00a0boundaries between native majorities and ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, intermarriage and mixedness are often deeply entwined with immigration, so we also \u00a0scrutinize the relationship between intermarriage and various aspects of immigrant integration, \u00a0whether legal, political, economic, social, or cultural. Does intermarriage, in fact, contribute to \u00a0immigrant incorporation? How and to what degree? Findings \u2013 whether quantitative, qualitative, \u00a0or both \u2013 are presented in this volume for a wide variety of national contexts: Canada, the United States, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Specific findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Race and religion remain significant barriers to societal integration, and deep social cleavages exist even in countries with higher rates of intermarriage. Race is a significant barrier in the United States, and religion \u2013 Islam in particular \u2013 is a prominent barrier in Western Europe, where even \u201clooking Muslim\u201d is automatically a low-status attribute, making some basic social integration, from housing to employment, automatically more difficult.<\/li>\n<li>Diversity has never been greater in the United States, but social integration is context-bound and conditional:\n<ul>\n<li>White immigrants have an easier time with various forms of integration (e.g. educational attainment, housing, and labor), but the opposite is true for black immigrants, who are less likely to marry black natives or out-marry with other groups.<\/li>\n<li>Asian Americans have become the most \u201cmarriageable\u201d ethnoracial minority in America. Boundaries to integration in the U.S. for Asians have not disappeared, but the rising multiracial Asian population faces fewer social hurdles. This is particularly true for Asian women, who are seen as more desirable than Asian men, likely because of persistent ethnic stereotypes.<\/li>\n<li>The earnings gap between immigrants who marry natives and those who marry other immigrants has increased over time in the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In the U.S. and France, immigrants with high levels of education are more likely to marry natural born citizens.<\/li>\n<li><strong>British multiracial people with part white ancestry and their children do not necessarily integrate into the white mainstream.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>EU citizens generally have a strong identification with Europe \u2013 they tend to feel \u201cEuropean\u201d and take pride in being so; this is particularly true of those with a partner from a different <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2007_enlargement_of_the_European_Union\" target=\"_blank\">EU27<\/a> country.<\/li>\n<li>The key to integration can lie in children who are products of mixed unions and the role that these families have in shaping societies where plural identities are normalized. In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quebec\" target=\"_blank\">Quebec<\/a>, for example, parents in mixed unions tend to make decisions that transmit identity, values, and culture to their children in ways that contribute to the \u201cunique social pluralism\u201d of the Quebecois.<\/li>\n<li>Immigrants in Canada with Canadian-born partners have similar levels of political engagement as the third-plus generation with Canadian-born partners; however, immigrants with foreign-born partners have lower political participation.<\/li>\n<li>The regulation of mixed marriages in the Netherlands has historically been gendered, to the detriment of Dutch women.<\/li>\n<li>The link between intermarriage and immigrant integration in Spain is complex and varied: outcomes for some aspects of integration may show a direct connection, while other results indicate either no relationship or a bidirectional association; further, the outcomes may be moderated by factors such as country of origin, gender, or length of residence.<\/li>\n<li>The social, cultural, and achievement outcomes for children of mixed marriages in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden are always in between the outcomes for immigrant children and native children, suggesting that mechanisms of both integration and \u00a0stigmatization, among other possibilities, play a role.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Together, these studies suggest a more complex picture of the nexus between intermarriage and integration than has traditionally been theorized, composing a portrait of what some scholars are calling \u201cmixedness\u201d \u2013 an encompassing concept that refers to intermarriage and mixed families, and the sociocultural processes attendant to them, in the modern world. We find that mixedness can be socially transformative, but also that it illuminates the disheartening persistence of ethnic and cultural divides that hinder inclusion and social cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase this special issue <a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\/content\/662\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intermarriage and Integration Revisited: International Experiences and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 662, November 2015 Guest Edited by: Dan Rodr\u00edguez-Garc\u00eda, Associate Professor Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Intermarriage has been a subject of study in the social sciences for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,28,414,8,26,394,10,20],"tags":[21834,21832,96,2948,4951,892,5187,21835,21833],"class_list":["post-43870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-europe","category-family","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-uk","category-usa","tag-annals-of-the-american-academy-of-political-and-social-science","tag-dan-rodriguez-garcia","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-netherlands","tag-spain","tag-sweden","tag-switzerland","tag-the-annals-of-the-american-academy-of-political-and-social-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43870"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43875,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43870\/revisions\/43875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}