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Race, Immigration, and Exogamy among the Native-born: Variation across Communities.

Mary E CampbellMolly A Martin
Published in: Sociology of race and ethnicity (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) (2015)
Did rising immigration levels change racial and ethnic exogamy patterns for young adults in the United States? Adding local demographics to Qian & Lichter's (2007) national results, we examine the relationship between the size of the local immigrant population in urban and rural areas and U.S.-born individuals' exogamy patterns in heterosexual unions, controlling for the area's racial composition. Using Census 2000 race, ethnicity, and nativity data and log-linear models, we test hypotheses about the relationship between high levels of immigration from Asia and Latin America and endogamy rates for U.S.-born Latino/as and Asians. We find that U.S.-born Latino/as and Asians are not consistently more endogamous in high-immigrant areas once we control for population composition differences across local areas. Surprisingly, U.S.-born Blacks and Native Americans are significantly less endogamous in areas with more immigrants.
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