Marrying someone from an outside group: An analysis of boundary-crossing marriages in Taiwan

Current Sociology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 165-186

  Tsay, Ruey Ming ^a,b   Wu, Li Hsueh ^a,b  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Tunghai University ^*

Author keywords

Cross boundary; Ethnicity; Heterogamy; Homogamy; Marriage

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646676240     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392106056740     Document Type: Article

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