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Title: Patterns of Interracial and Interethnic Marriages among Foreign-Born Asians in the United States

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2018

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DOI: 10.3390/soc8030087

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Abstract: This study examines the patterns of interracial marriage and interethnic marriage among foreign-born Asians in the United States, using pooled data from the 2008–2012 American Community Surveys. Results show that the most dominant pattern of marriage among foreign-born Asians was still intra-ethnic marriage and that interracial marriage, especially with whites, rather than interethnic marriage among Asians, remained the dominant pattern of intermarriages. Out of all foreign-born Asian marriages, inter-Asian marriages stayed at only about 3%. Among all foreign-born Asian groups, Japanese were most likely to marry interracially and interethnically, while Asian Indians had the lowest rates of interracial marriage and interethnic marriage. Foreign-born Asian women were more likely to interracially marry, especially with whites, than foreign-born Asian men, but they were not much different from foreign-born Asian men in terms of their interethnic marriage rate. The findings have significant implications for intermarriage research, assimilation, and Asian American panethnicity.

Url: http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/8/3/87

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Authors: Yang, Philip; Bohm-Jordan, Maggie

Periodical (Full): Societies

Issue: 3

Volume: 8

Pages: 87

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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