婚姻によるメキシカン・マイノリティ同化の実態

——対数線形モデルによる民族・世代間婚の分析——

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Qian and Lichter argued in 2007 that Hispanic marital assimilation had reversed its trend since the 1990s due to the continuous inflow of coethnic immigrants. This research assesses their claim with particular attention to marriages of Mexicans across generations. A quasi-independent symmetry model of log-linear analysis was performed on a sample of married Mexican and non-Hispanic white population taken from 1994–2009 CPS annual data. The result indicates two opposing trends: increasing marriage between native-born Mexicans and whites coupled with declining marriage between foreign-born and US-born Mexicans. Contradictory to the above-mentioned paper, this research suggests that “social distance” between US-born Mexicans and non-Mexican whites is closing, while those between Mexican generations are not.