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Title: Trends in Partnership Among Afro-Caribbean Women: Generations and Destinations Compared

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Abstract: Afro-Caribbean women have relatively low partnership rates in their homelands. This study asks whether Afro-Caribbean women who migrate to five developed countries “assimilate” toward the higher partnership rates of their Native White counterparts and how that “assimilation” varies across destinations. The research draws on comparative integration context theory to develop hypotheses about cross-national differences. It uses logistic regression to test those hypotheses. In the main, Afro-Caribbean women’s partnership rates are converging with Native White, but with considerable cross-national variation. Furthermore, convergence is greater for women without children at home than for women with children. Among the more surprising findings, in Canada and the US, Afro-Caribbean women with children at home exhibit “reverse assimilation”; that is, the disparity in partnership rates between later generation, younger Afro-Caribbean women and their White counterparts is greater than the analogous gap for older, earlier generation Afro-Caribbean women. Unfortunately, comparative integration context theory sheds little light on this discovery. Taken together, the findings imply that differences in family structure may hamper the upward mobility of Afro-Caribbeans, most notably in Canada and America.

Url: https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/epdf/10.3138/jcfs.53.4.020?role=tab

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Authors: Model, Suzanne

Periodical (Full): Journal of Comparative Family Studies

Issue: 4

Volume: 53

Pages: 452-478

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Race and Ethnicity

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