Cultural dissimilarity and intermarriage. A longitudinal study of immigrants in Sweden 1990-2005

International Migration Review

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 297-324

  Dribe, Martin ^a   Lundh, Christer ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; CULTURAL IDENTITY; HUMAN CAPITAL; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MARRIAGE;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MARRIAGE; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SPOUSE; SWEDEN;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; POPULATION GROUPS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL VALUES; SPOUSES; SWEDEN;

SWEDEN;

EID: 79959690305     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: 17477379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2011.00849.x     Document Type: Article

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