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How do children of mixed partnerships fare in the UK? : understanding the implications for children of parental ethnic homogamy and heterogamy
Many claims are made about the significance of interethnic partnerships for individuals and for society. The traditional assimilation thesis theorised interethnic partnerships as the endpoint of assimilation. Such partnerships continue to be seen as a ‘barometer’ of the openness of society, and have spawned extensive analysis investigating their patterns, trends and determinants. But we know little about the outcomes of children of such partnerships. In the UK, the increase in the self-defined ‘mixed’ population is often celebrated. But there has been little quantitative sociological analysis that has investigated the circumstances of the children of mixed ethnicity partnerships. Using two large-scale UK data sets covering a similar period, this paper brings a focus on how children of mixed unions are faring and brings to bear complementary analytical strategies to evaluate the positives and negatives that marriage across ethnic boundaries has been posited to bring.
http://globalnetwork.princeton.edu/files/ANNALS/platt.pdf
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Author Lucinda Platt

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Princeton Global Network on Child Migration
01 January 2012
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Princeton, NJ
ANNALS paper

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Platt, Lucinda Author (2012) How do children of mixed partnerships fare in the UK? : understanding the implications for children of parental ethnic homogamy and heterogamy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Global Network on Child Migration.

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Platt Lucinda. How do children of mixed partnerships fare in the UK? : understanding the implications for children of parental ethnic homogamy and heterogamy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Global Network on Child Migration; 2012.