Is Intermarriage a Good Indicator of Integration?
Is Intermarriage a Good Indicator of Integration?
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异族通婚是融合的良好指标吗？
DOI：
10.1080/13691830802586476
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Miri Song
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作者：
Miri Song
在这篇文章中，我回顾和检验了通婚和融合之间假定的联系。我主要关注美国和英国的文学作品。据说通婚标志着少数群体和占多数的白人之间“社会距离”的显著缩短，使得不同群体之间的结合成为可能，而这在以前是一种禁忌。人们通常认为，少数民族通婚是融合的最终试金石，但事实真的是这样吗？如果通婚和融合之间有联系，那么少数族裔群体和少数族裔伴侣实现的“融合”的性质和程度是什么？我认为，通婚和融合之间的联系比许多社会科学家认为的更加脆弱和复杂，需要进行批判性的重新评估，特别是在多民族社会，这些社会见证了前所未有的多样性水平，无论是在他们的少数民族群体之间，还是在他们的少数民族群体内部。
In this paper I review and examine the assumed link between intermarriage and integration. I focus primarily on literature from the US and Britain. Intermarriage is said to signal a significant lessening of ‘social distance’ between a minority group and the White majority, enabling unions between groups which would previously have been taboo. It is often assumed that intermarriage for ethnic minorities is the ultimate litmus test of integration, but is it? And if there is a link between intermarriage and integration, what is the nature and extent of ‘integration’ achieved by minority groups and by the minority partner? I argue that the link between intermarriage and integration is both more tenuous and more complex than many social scientists have argued, and needs a critical reappraisal, especially in multiethnic societies which are witnessing unprecedented levels of diversity, both across and within their ethnic minority groups.