Ever more mixing ? Trends in ethnically mixed marriages and the marriage choice of children of intermarriage

Les Lundis de l'Ined

25/03/2024

l’Ined de 11h30 à 12h30, en présentiel en salle Sauvy & en visioconférence via ZOOM

Intervenant : Christiaan Monden (Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of Sociology & Demography, Oxford university, Nuffield College) ; discutant : Ognjen Obucina (chercheur Ined UR09 et co-responsable UR08)

Will modernisation and globalisation lead to higher levers of ethnic intermarriage? Some theories suggest so. Moreover, intermarriage may be self-reinforcing from one generation to the next (by weakening ethnic boundaries). I look at these issues by, first, updating a 2005 paper on trends in mixed marriage between Russian-speakers and Latvians in Latvia before and after the fall of the Soviet Union, which upset the correlation between ethnicity and political power. I add data for 15 more years and also differentiate between Russians and Ukrainians who were previously all classed as Russian-speakers. Second, I outline a literature study on time trends in intermarriage. And finally, I present hypotheses and a research design to test expectations about ethnic boundaries among children of mixed marriage. The design is based on full population data from Dutch registries.

Biographie de Christaan Monden :

Christiaan Monden has a broad interest family, health and social inequalities. His research includes family formation and dissolution, fertility and multiple births, mortality, the association between education and health, and social inequalities in across the life course in general. He studied sociology at Utrecht University and obtained his PhD at the Radboud University / ICS graduate school in the Netherlands. He has been at the University of Oxford since 2010, where he has served as Head of Department, lead an ERC Consolidator grant project and is currently Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of Sociology & Demography.