Full Citation

Title: Transatlantischer Heiratsmarkt und Heiratspolitik von Migrantlnnen aus Osterreich-Ungarn in den USA, 1870-1930

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2014

ISBN:

ISSN:

DOI:

NSFID:

PMCID:

PMID:

Abstract: In migration research marriage markets play a decisive role in the process of integration. Intermarriage is a crucial, probably the crucial, mechanism of ethnic intermingling. Intermarriage can serve both as a measure of acculturation and as an agent producing it. Yet while intermarriage of different groups is widely recognized as an indicator for social integration, few historical analyses attempt to integrate gender aspects into their research design. I am trying to redress this gap by examining these historical processes and describing marriage markets of migrants from Austria-Hungary and how these changed from 1900 up to 1930. According to previous studies, the so called new migrants from Southern and East-Central Europe tended to be more segregated from natives than were older European groups. And further, these migrants tended to be more segregated from one another. But what if, in an unknown environment, it might even have become more important to stick to the same community and marry within ones group?

Url: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lhomme.2014.25.issue-1/lhomme-2014-0105/lhomme-2014-0105.xml

User Submitted?: No

Authors: Steidl, Annemarie; Fischer-Nebmaier, Wladimir

Periodical (Full): L'Homme

Issue: 1

Volume: 25

Pages: 51-68

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: