Assimilation paths of immigrant children: Asian Indians and Filipinos compared

Qian, Zhenchao; Shah, Priyank G.

doi:10.1177/2057150x15594077

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“…Rather than exclude them for small sample sizes, I analyze families with a parent who is Asian Indian, Filipino, Korean, or Vietnamese and present their combined results. These groups have distinct socioeconomic profiles and immigration histories (Qian and Shah 2015; Takaki 1998) and their joint results should be interpreted cautiously.…”

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On the Boundaries of Race

Liebler

2016

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Socially constructed race groups have boundaries that define their membership. I study temporal trends and group-specific patterns in race and ancestry responses provided for children of interracial marriages. Common responses indicate contemporary definitions of race groups (and perhaps emerging groups); uncommon responses reveal socially defined limits of race group membership. I leverage dense, nonpublic, Census Bureau data from 1960 to 2010 to do this and include a more diverse set of families, a longer time span, and more accurate estimates than prior research. I find that the location of race group boundaries varies over time and across 11 distinct family types. Since mixed-heritage responses became possible in 1980, they have been common in most groups. Part Asians have almost always been reported as multiracial or mixed ancestry. A number of (non-Asian) mixed-heritage children are described as monoracial on the census form, particularly children with American Indian heritage. Over time, part whites are decreasingly reported as monoracially white (white race with no nonwhite ancestry). Black heritage is reported for part blacks, but monoracial black responses became nonmodal by 1980. Part Pacific Islanders show similarities to part Asians and part American Indians. Given the predominance of multiracial and mixed-ancestry Asian responses since 1980, Asian multiracial may be an emerging socially recognized race category. Black multiracial shows a similar pattern. Monoracial responses (especially common among white–American Indians and black–American Indians) create important but hard-to-measure complexity in groups’ compositions.

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On the Boundaries of Race

Liebler

2016

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…Inman et al (2011) explored the interracial marriage experiences of Indian American–White couples, noting the critical impact of the difference in cultural values and beliefs on marital satisfaction and continuity. Qian and Shah (2015) and Sharda (1990) suggested that diaspora Indians experienced pressure from their parents and broader families to maintain their cultural connectedness, national identity, and heritage, which influenced their marital choices.…”

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Negotiating the challenges of an interracial marriage: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of the perception of diaspora Indian partners

Daniel

2023

Family Relations

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ObjectiveThis interpretive phenomenological analysis study aimed to explore the marriage experience of diaspora Indians who chose to marry a non‐Indian partner and to fill in the literature gap to inform the counseling practices.BackgroundDiaspora Indians have the lowest level of interracial marriage of any immigrant group living in the United States at about 20%. The resistance to marrying someone of another culture and insufficient empirical research in the field makes it difficult for counselors to adjust counseling services when dealing with diaspora Indian interracial couples.MethodUsing interpretivism and phenomenology as the philosophical ground for the research, the researcher explored the subjective experiences of interracial marriage among diaspora Indians through in‐depth interviews, which were transcribed and analyzed using coding and thematic analysis.ResultsThe results illustrate those cultural issues, based on the differences between the collectivist nature of the Indian American community and the individualist American culture, caused considerable stress on interracial marriage and were the major driver of therapeutic intervention for the interracial couple.ConclusionThe study identified various coping mechanisms that could potentially reduce marital stress among diaspora Indians engaged in interracial marriage. Findings indicate that the cultural perspective should be at the core of counseling services rendered to interracial couples.ImplicationsMulticultural competence and cultural humility are essential for helping practitioners to understand nuances related to interracial marriage, especially those joining the collectivist diaspora Indian culture with that of more individualistic races and ethnicities in the United States. Future studies in the field may use longitudinal research for observing the evolution of interracial couples while managing their cultural differences and other marital issues.

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Children of immigrants: Racial assortative mating and the transition to adulthood

Anyawie

Lichter

2023

Population Studies

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Assimilation paths of immigrant children: Asian Indians and Filipinos compared

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

On the Boundaries of Race

On the Boundaries of Race

Negotiating the challenges of an interracial marriage: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of the perception of diaspora Indian partners

Children of immigrants: Racial assortative mating and the transition to adulthood

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