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

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  • Philip Yang

    (Department of Sociology and Social Work, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX 76204, USA)

  • Maggie Bohm-Jordan

    (Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Stevens-Point, Stevens Point, WI 54481, USA)

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.

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  • Philip Yang & Maggie Bohm-Jordan, 2018. "Patterns of Interracial and Interethnic Marriages among Foreign-Born Asians in the United States," Societies, MDPI, vol. 8(3), pages 1-14, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsoctx:v:8:y:2018:i:3:p:87-:d:170178
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    1. Philip Q. Yang & Jonbita Prost, 2021. "Trends in Attitudes of Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics toward Intermarriage in the Twenty-First Century," Societies, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-16, March.

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