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.
Highlights
Intermarriage is part of assimilation [1] and a barometer of social integration and intergroup social distance
To fill the gaps in the literature, this study examines the patterns of intermarriages among foreign-born Asians by differentiating between interracial marriage and interethnic marriage
In an effort to fill the void in the literature, this study examines the patterns of intermarriages among foreign-born Asians using data from American Community Surveys (ACS) 2008–2012
Summary
Intermarriage is part of assimilation [1] and a barometer of social integration and intergroup social distance. Intermarriage can be interracial (e.g., between Asian and white) or interethnic For Asian Americans, interracial marriage and interethnic marriage have differential implications. While interracial marriage between Asians and whites signifies assimilation to the dominant culture and society, interethnic marriage among Asian ethnic groups indicates integration into Asian American panethnicity [2], a concept most fully developed by Yen Espiritu [3] and Lopez and Espiritu [4]. Asian Americans, the large majority of whom are foreign-born. There are significant differences between native-born Asians and foreign-born Asians in intermarriages [2,5,6,7]. The bulk of existing research on Asian intermarriages lumps
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