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Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
E-4 FAM18 Ethnicity, Migration and Family
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Family and Demography Chair: Valeria Sorostineanu
Organizer: Aycan E. Celikaksoy Discussant: Joana-Maria Pujadas-Mora
Aycan E. Celikaksoy : Intergenerational Transmission of Interethnic Marriage in Sweden.
This paper explores intergenerational transmission of interethnic union formation behavior within families. Using register data from Statistics Sweden I find a strong association in union formation patterns between parents and their offspring. This association holds for all levels of individual and parental education and region of origins. When countries ... (Show more)
This paper explores intergenerational transmission of interethnic union formation behavior within families. Using register data from Statistics Sweden I find a strong association in union formation patterns between parents and their offspring. This association holds for all levels of individual and parental education and region of origins. When countries of origin are categorized according to cultural distance to the Swedish society, the results indicate that parental intermarriage is more important in explaining differences in union formation patterns between culturally similar countries rather than dissimilar ones. The gap between average intermarriage rates between countries that are culturally dissimilar is entirely explained by the differences in their average individual, marriage market and parental characteristics. Decomposing parental intermarriage into detailed categories and separate estimations for each value system indicate that the mechanisms behind intergenerational transmission of union formation patterns vary by value system of the origin country. For individuals with a background from societies that are culturally similar to the Swedish society, all types of parental intermarriage increase their likelihood of intermarrying, supporting the theories on ethnic compatibility and contact hypothesis. However, for individuals with an origin from countries that are dissimilar to the Swedish society, only having a Swedish parent or a parent from countries who have similar values as the Swedish society matter, supporting the social integration hypotheses. (Show less)

Danielle Gauvreau, Patricia Thornton & Helene Vezina : Immigration and Intercultural Marriages: Trends and Determinants in Québec, 1880-1940
The ultimate and most intimate form of cross-cultural relation is intermarriage. Theories proposed to account for intermarriage give a major role to three social forces we might call opportunities, preferences, and third-party influences. The constraints of the marriage market in which individuals are searching for a spouse and hence opportunities ... (Show more)
The ultimate and most intimate form of cross-cultural relation is intermarriage. Theories proposed to account for intermarriage give a major role to three social forces we might call opportunities, preferences, and third-party influences. The constraints of the marriage market in which individuals are searching for a spouse and hence opportunities to marry co-ethnics are shaped by structural and demographic forces such as size of group, sex balance, residential segregation, diversity of economic status within the group, and continued immigration. The preferences of individuals for certain characteristics in a spouse often include socio-economic or cultural resources. Third parties such as family, institutional religion, class and the state may intervene in the selection process. Our goal in this paper is to shed light on the determinants of intermarriage in the Province of Quebec (and regions) and how these changed from 1880 to 1940 as new waves of immigrants (Irish, Scottish and English during the 19th century, a more diversified group from around the turn of the 20th century) came in contact with French Canadians. Our work will make use of the entire manuscript census of 1881 and samples for 1901 through 1941, only newly available for 1911 onwards. Canadian censuses contain very useful information for such a study: the individual’s religion, place of birth, ethnic origin, year of immigration, language spoken and ability to speak English and French, as well as other socio-economic characteristics such as schooling, occupation, and earnings which can be combined at the family, household, neighbourhood or region in multi-level models. (Show less)

Mihaela Grancea, Cornel Moșneag : Biconfesional Funerary Monuments in Transylvania and Banat, the Result of Mixed Marriages
The aspect of the modern (municipal) cemeteries of Transylvania and Banat was strongly affected by the process of urban modernization and secularization as well as by mixed marriages (which surpassed the segregationist borders imposed by the traditions of multiethnic and multiconfessional communities).
Municipal cemeteries manage to evolve in a few decades ... (Show more)
The aspect of the modern (municipal) cemeteries of Transylvania and Banat was strongly affected by the process of urban modernization and secularization as well as by mixed marriages (which surpassed the segregationist borders imposed by the traditions of multiethnic and multiconfessional communities).
Municipal cemeteries manage to evolve in a few decades (from the 7th decade of the 19th Century) from a strict segregationist system to the total abandoning of any territorial marking. Moreover, the ever increasing number of mixed marriages imposed a change in the structure of monuments. The monuments of mixed married partners, regardless of their position, had writings in both languages and the identitary religious symbols of both partners.
Usually, except when the monument was pre-ordered, the descendants would decide the aspect of the family monument. If in the 20th Century and in the Interwar Period mixed marriages happened both at the top and lower levels (less visible due to the fact that the poor have no durable monument) of urban society, in villages mixed marriages were very rare. Obviously, our study is based on a ten-year field investigation and it’s the product of the statistical evaluation of monuments from 110 cemeteries from Transylvania and Banat. We excluded from the investigation the monuments of non-theists. During communism the dissolution of confessional differences became a controlled process because of administrative, secular, and egalitarian reasons. This is best illustrated in the case of Victoria, town build during the Socialist Industrial Age; the cemetery is structured into two sectors: the cemetery for veterans of war and the actual cemetery where Neoprotestans, Lutherans, Catholics and Orthodox are buried regardless of any confessional criteria.
Thus, we consider that the funerary monuments of mixed families are an indicator of the evolution of ethnic-confessional relations, phenomenon determined by social and historical dynamics. (Show less)



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