Mixed marriages between immigrants and natives in Spain: the gendered effect of marriage market constraints

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• dc.contributor.author González-Ferrer, Amparo
• dc.contributor.author Obućina, Ognjen
• dc.contributor.author Cortina Trilla, Clara
• dc.contributor.author Castro Martín, Teresa
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-10T09:08:48Z
• dc.date.available 2022-10-10T09:08:48Z
• dc.date.issued 2018
• dc.description.abstract Spain has become an important immigrant destination relatively recently. Marriages between natives and immigrants are among the most important agents of social and cultural change in contemporary Spanish society. This study’s aim is to analyse the propensity to enter mixed-nativity marriages among both natives and immigrants in Spain, focusing on the roles played by both individual.The study combines data from the National Immigrant Survey (2007) and the Marriages Register (2008). Multivariate analysis is based on multinomial logistic regression, with an event history approach for immigrants and cross-sectional approach for natives. Immigrant groups, and particularly immigrant men, differ considerably in their propensity to intermarry. Education is positively associated with exogamy among immigrant men but is not an important predictor of intermarriage among immigrant women. By contrast, the marriage market structure is more important for immigrant women than men. The analysis for natives shows only limited support for the exchange hypothesis. Educational exchange can be observed in the mixed marriages of native women with some immigrant groups but is observed much less often for native men.Age difference within the couple is more frequently consistent with some sort of exchange between immigrant and native partners. Our results suggest that there is not one marriage market but several for different groups and that the patterns of native/immigrant marriage in Spain are strongly gendered.
• dc.description.sponsorship The research leading to these results received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007−2013) under grant agreement no. 320116 for the research project Families And Societies. The authors are grateful to two anonymous referees for valuable comments and suggestions on a previous version of this paper.
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• dc.identifier.citation González-Ferrer A, Obućina O, Cortina C, Castro T. Mixed marriages between immigrants and natives in Spain: the gendered effect of marriage market constraints. Demographic Research. 2018 Jul;39(1):1-32. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.39.1
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2018.39.1
• dc.identifier.issn 1435-9871
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/54325
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
• dc.relation.ispartof Demographic Research. 2018 Jul;39(1):1-32
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/320116
• dc.rights © 2018 González-Ferrer, Obućina, Cortina & Castro-Martín. This open-access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany (CC BY 3.0 DE), which permits use, reproduction, and distribution in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are given credit.
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• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/legalcode
• dc.subject.keyword Spain
• dc.subject.keyword Natives
• dc.subject.keyword Marriage market
• dc.subject.keyword Marriage
• dc.subject.keyword Immigrants
• dc.subject.keyword Event history analysis
• dc.subject.other Intermarriage
• dc.title Mixed marriages between immigrants and natives in Spain: the gendered effect of marriage market constraints
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