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Mixed marriages among immigrants and their descendants in the United Kingdom : analysis of longitudinal data with missing information

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Date
04/05/2019
Author
Kulu, Hill
Hannemann, Tina
Keywords
Marriage
Immigrants
The second generation
Event history analysis
Multiple imputation
United Kingdom
G Geography (General)
H Social Sciences (General)
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Abstract
This study investigates formation of endogamous and exogamous marriages among immigrants and their descendants in the UK. While there is a growing literature on various aspects of ethnic minorities’ lives in Britain, their marriage patterns have been little studied and understood. We apply event-history analysis to data from the Understanding Society study and use multiple imputation to determine the type of marriage for individuals with missing information on the origin of their spouse. The analysis shows, first, significant differences among immigrants and their descendants in the likelihood of marrying within and outside of their ethnic groups. While immigrants from European countries have relatively high exogamous marriage rates, South Asians exhibit a high likelihood of marrying a partner from their own ethnic group; Caribbeans hold an intermediate position. Second, the descendants of immigrants have lower endogamous and higher exogamous marriage rates than their parents; however, for some ethnic groups, particularly for South Asians the differences across generations are small. Third, the exogamy rates are high among ethnic minority women and men with better English skills, individuals who are less religious and those who are older at first marriage. Fourth, highly-educated native British men have an elevated likelihood of forming an inter-ethnic marriage; exogamous marriages are also formed at later ages among the native men and women.
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Kulu , H & Hannemann , T 2019 , ' Mixed marriages among immigrants and their descendants in the United Kingdom : analysis of longitudinal data with missing information ' , Population Studies-A Journal of Demography , vol. 73 , no. 2 , pp. 179-196 . https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2018.1493136
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Population Studies-A Journal of Demography
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2018.1493136
ISSN
0032-4728
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 320116 for the research project FamiliesAndSocieties.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16343

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