The residential segregation of mixed-nativity married couples |
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Authors: | John Iceland Kyle Anne Nelson |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, 427 Rosenau Hall, CB# 7445, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7445, USA;(2) Division of Health Social and Economic Research, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA;(3) Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA;(4) Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
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Abstract: | This article examines the ways in which mixed-nativity marriage is related to spatial assimilation in metropolitan areas of the United States. Specifically, we examine the residential patterns of households with a mixed-nativity—and, in some cases, interracial—marriage to determine whether they are less segregated from the native-born than entirely foreign-born households. Using restricted-use data from the 2000 census, we find that compared with couples in which both spouses are foreign-born, mixed-nativity couples tend to be less segregated from various native-born racial and ethnic groups. Further, among both foreign-born Asians and Hispanics, those with a native-born non-Hispanic white spouse are considerably less segregated from native-born white households than from other foreign-born Asian and Hispanic households. We also find that even though nativity status matters for black couples in a manner consistent with assimilation theory, foreign-born and mixed-nativity black households still each display very high levels of segregation from all other native-born racial/ethnic groups, reaffirming the power of race in determining residential patterns. Overall, our findings provide moderate support for spatial assimilation theory and suggest that cross-nativity marriages often facilitate the residential integration of the foreign-born. |
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