Assimilation and Structural Explanations of Asian Intermarriage in the U.S.

美国亚裔通婚的同化和结构解释

• 批准号: 8921474
• 负责人: Sean-Shong Hwang
• 金额: $ 10.01万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama at Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-07-01 至 1992-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8921474&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Assimilation; Structural; Explanations; Asian; Intermarriage

This study involves a comparative analysis of intermarriage patterns of the six largest Asian-origin groups in the continental United States: Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, Asian Indians, and Vietnamese. The Principal Investigators will draw on data from the 1980 5% Public Use Microdata Sample of the U.S. Census (PUMS) to examine the tendency of individuals to marry a member of the same ethnic group or someone from a different ethnic group. Previous research on the intermarriage of Asians in the United States has been limited by geographical and/or group constraints. These researchers will rectify this situation by conducting a comparative analysis of the extent and determinants of Asian intermarriage. They will integrate two theoretical perspectives on intermarriage. The first, the assimilation model, assumes that people make marital decisions according to their cultural preferences and factors such as citizenship, ability with English, and socioeconomic attainment. The second, the structural model, suggests that marital decisions are constrained by the structural and demographic reality of the society in which they live, including such factors as the relative group size and racial and educational heterogenity. Combining these two perspectives provides a more realistic model of the actual dynamics of the intermarriage process in general, and for America's fastest growing ethnic minority -- Asian Americans. This is the first effort to provide a systematic analysis of Asian intermarriage encompassing the entire continental United States, and will advance current knowledge on the assimilation process of this important subgroup of the population. As such, this study will contribute to models of intermarriage that recognize sociocultural and socioeconomic diversity.

这项研究涉及对美国大陆六个最大的亚裔群体通婚模式的比较分析：中国人、菲律宾人、日本人、韩国人、亚裔印度人和越南人。首席调查员将利用1980年美国人口普查(PLUMS)5%公共使用微数据样本的数据来检查个人与同一种族成员或来自不同种族群体的人结婚的倾向。之前关于美国亚洲人通婚的研究受到地理和/或群体限制的限制。这些研究人员将通过对亚洲通婚的程度和决定因素进行比较分析来纠正这种情况。他们将整合关于异族通婚的两种理论观点。第一，同化模型，假设人们根据他们的文化偏好和诸如公民身份、英语能力和社会经济成就等因素来做出婚姻决定。第二，结构模型，认为婚姻决定受到他们所在社会的结构和人口现实的制约，包括相对群体规模和种族和教育异质性等因素。将这两个视角结合起来，为通婚过程的实际动态以及美国增长最快的少数族裔--亚裔美国人提供了一个更现实的模型。这是第一次对涵盖整个美国大陆的亚洲通婚进行系统分析，并将促进对这一重要人口亚群同化过程的现有认识。因此，这项研究将有助于建立承认社会文化和社会经济多样性的通婚模式。