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

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

June 1, 2019

Summary

This study investigates the formation of endogamous and exogamous marriages among immigrants and their descendants in the United Kingdom. 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 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; Caribbean people 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 South Asians, the differences across generations are small, suggesting that changes in marriage patterns have been slower than expected.

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 73 , p.179 -196

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2018.1493136

ISSN

324728

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Notes

© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Open Access
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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