Mixed marriages between immigrants and natives in Spain: The gendered effect of marriage market constraints

González‐Ferrer, Amparo; Obućina, Ognjen; Cortina, Clara; Castro-Martín, Teresa

doi:10.4054/demres.2018.39.1

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“…These native men tend to be retired or unemployed, and they exchange access to citizenship for specific attributes of migrant women, such as migrant women's physical attractiveness and being of younger age than themselves. A similar finding of exchanging youth and attractiveness has been reported for Spain, but for both native men and women who are in a mixed union with a migrant (González-Ferrer et al 2018). Findings for Germany show that men often search for their mates abroad, rather than finding their partners in the residential migrant population of the host society.…”

Section: Mate Selection and Exogamy From The Natives' Perspectivesupporting

confidence: 70%

“…Some quantitative studies (e.g. Glowsky 2011;González-Ferrer et al 2018;Medrano et al 2014;Schroedter/Rössel 2014;van Wissen/Heering 2014) have shown that exogamy is often accompanied by heterogamy in other traits, such as age, education, and cultural characteristics, and have traced this pattern back to status exchange mechanisms. Others see exogamy as having little connection to heterogamy in other characteristics, and explain intermarriage with a migrant using homogamy/preference theories (Çelikaksoy/Nielsen/Verner 2006).…”

Section: Mate Selection and Exogamy From The Natives' Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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A different perspective on exogamy: Are non-migrant partners in mixed unions more liberal in their attitudes toward gender, family, and religion than other natives?

Braack¹,

Milewski²

2019

JFamRes

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Classic assimilation theory perceives migrant-native intermarriage as both a means to and a result of immigrants’ integration processes into host societies. The literature is increasingly focusing on marital exogamy of immigrants, yet almost nothing is known about their native partners. This explorative study contributes to the literature on migrant integration and social cohesion in Europe by asking whether the native partners in exogamous unions have different attitudes toward gender equality, sexual liberalization, family solidarity, and religiosity/secularization than natives in endogamous unions. Our theoretical considerations are based on preference, social exchange, and modernization theories. We use data of the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) of seven countries. The sample size is 38,447 natives aged 18 to 85, of whom about 4% are in a mixed union. The regression results of the study are mixed. Persons in exogamous unions show greater agreement with family solidarity, are thus less individualistic than those in endogamous couples. Yet, mixing is associated with greater openness to sexual liberalization and gender equality as well as more secular attitudes. These findings can only partially be explained by sociodemographic control variables. Hence, immigrants in exogamous unions with natives may integrate into the more liberal milieu of their host societies, in which natives continue to place a high value on providing support to family members.

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Section: Mate Selection and Exogamy From The Natives' Perspectivesupporting

confidence: 70%

Section: Mate Selection and Exogamy From The Natives' Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

A different perspective on exogamy: Are non-migrant partners in mixed unions more liberal in their attitudes toward gender, family, and religion than other natives?

Braack¹,

Milewski²

2019

JFamRes

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“…There is a jarring deficit of research that examines the socio-economic lives of displaced populations. The literature mainly focuses on the economic impact of displaced populations on the host-country (Betts and Collier, 2015;Bakker, Dagevos, and Engbersen, 2014;Dimitrov and Angelov, 2017) tangible outcomes of integration, such as legal aspects of asylum and integration (Barou, 2014) or rates of inter-marriage with the domicile populations (Gonzales-Ferrer et al, 2018). Moreover, refugees are almost always studied with distinct parameters and not examined as a sub-group of migrants who might fall under similar economic categories, which both the academic literature and government policies reflect.…”

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confidence: 99%

Integration of Displaced Syrians in Saudi Arabia

Osmandzikovic¹

2020

Border Crossing

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The integration of displaced populations is primarily measured in singular variables. The focus mostly is on economic self-sufficiency or citizenship acquisition. The overall underperformance of the traditional relationship between displaced populations and their host-countries has given birth to a plethora of novel approaches. The idea is to reconcile the host-countries’ geo-economic interests with the needs of the displaced populations. This is also the case in some countries that are not signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol, such as Nigeria, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia. These countries have tried to integrate displaced populations in their national agendas, albeit with little input from the beneficiaries of such programs. As a non-signatory of the 1951 Refugee Convention, Saudi Arabia developed an alternative approach to the integration of displaced Syrians. It has demonstrated a wide area of coverage and adaptability, covering legal status, education, healthcare, employment, and social integration. This article provides an analysis of the government refugee programs, juxtaposed to topic modelling of semi-structured interviews conducted with displaced Syrians (n=21) within the Kingdom. The findings illustrate that, despite the comprehensive nature of the Saudi approach, which ensures socio-economic independence for displaced Syrians, the integration process from the viewpoint of the displaced populations suggest that integration remains a highly subjective and personal process.

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“…In some minority groups, exogamy can result in social exclusion or it can negatively impact the quality of family and other social contacts (Huijnk et al, 2010). Previous research has found that exogamy among immigrants is associated on the individual level with higher education, higher age, and higher-order unions; as well as with greater dissimilarities between the spouses with respect to age, education, religion, or other characteristics (Celikaksoy et al 2010;Fitzpatrick et al 2009;González-Ferrer et al 2018;Kalmijn, 1998;Kulu and Hannemann 2019;Troy et al 2006). These findings suggest that, on the one hand, exogamy may be a "second choice" that is made when individuals "cast a wider net" after searching for a longer time.…”

Section: Social Boundary Crossing In Mate Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An explorative approach to the cross-section of international migration and sexual preference: same-sex couples in Germany

Braack

Milewski

2020

Genus

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We study the intersection of international migration and sexual preference from a socio-demographic perspective by looking at same-sex couples among migrants in Germany. Despite increasing ethnic diversity and greater social and legal liberality toward non-normative living arrangements, there are hardly any available quantitative data on this vulnerable group, which crosses two social boundaries. Drawing on the scientific-use file of the German Microcensus (2013), we estimate the prevalence of same-sex couples among female and male migrants, and describe their socio-demographic characteristics. We use different approaches to imputing data to account for the possibility that the reported information on same-sex relationships may be missing or wrong, and consider different definitions of “migrant status”. Our results show that the share of couples who were same-sex was smaller among the immigrant (0.2 to 1.4%) than among the native population (0.6 to 2.0%). Moreover, migrants in a same-sex couple were more similar in terms of other socio-demographic variables (age, education) to natives in a same-sex union than to migrants in an opposite-sex union. This study contributes to the LGBT social science literature by providing the first quantitative description of this minority-in-a minority group in Germany.

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Mixed marriages between immigrants and natives in Spain: The gendered effect of marriage market constraints

Cited by 23 publications

References 44 publications

A different perspective on exogamy: Are non-migrant partners in mixed unions more liberal in their attitudes toward gender, family, and religion than other natives?

A different perspective on exogamy: Are non-migrant partners in mixed unions more liberal in their attitudes toward gender, family, and religion than other natives?

Integration of Displaced Syrians in Saudi Arabia

An explorative approach to the cross-section of international migration and sexual preference: same-sex couples in Germany

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