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Burton, Michael James. "Western-Sino intermarriage in Hong Kong." Thesis, [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1992. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13554554.
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Fogell, Melanie Debra. "No-woman's land, Jewish women and intermarriage." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq20787.pdf.
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Safranoff, Yankillevich Ana. "Analysing gender power relations through intermarriage in Spain." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/286737.
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Esta tesis analiza la interacción entre las desigualdades de género y la inmigración mediante el
estudio de las diferencias de género en los matrimonios mixtos en España. La pregunta de
investigación principal de la tesis es por qué las mujeres inmigrantes se casan con hombres
españoles en mayor número que los hombres inmigrantes. Los resultados muestran que las
teorías clásicas que se han utilizado para explicar los matrimonios mixtos y, más
específicamente, las diferencias de género en dichos matrimonios, sólo pueden explicar de
forma limitada este fenómeno. A diferencia del caso de los hombres inmigrantes en el pasado,
en la España contemporánea la mayor propensión de las mujeres inmigrantes a casarse con
hombres españoles no puede considerarse como un indicador de un mayor nivel de integración
en la sociedad de acogida sino, más bien, como un signo de una forma diferente de integración.
De hecho, los resultados sugieren que, en gran parte, las mujeres inmigrantes se casan con más
frecuencia que los hombres debido a que son más atractivas para un tipo de hombre español con
un perfil cultural tradicional que concibe el rol de la mujer como subordinado al del hombre.This dissertation seeks to expand and refine our understanding of the interaction between immigrant and gender inequalities. This objective is achieved by analysing gender differences in intermarriage in Spain. The main research question of this thesis is why immigrant women intermarry with Spanish natives in larger numbers than immigrant meno The results of the dissertation show that the classical theories that have been used to explain intermarriage and, more specifically, gender differences in intermarriage, can only Iimitedly explain women's surplus in intermarriage in Spain. Differently from the case of immigrant men in the past, immigrant women 's higher propensity to intermarry in contemporary Spain cannot be simplistically considered an indicator oftheir higher levels of integration in the host society, but rather a sign of a different form of integration. In fact, the results suggest that immigrant women intermarry more often than men largely because they are more attractive to a type of Spanish native man with a traditional cultural profile that considers women's role to be subordinated to men.
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Furtado, Delia. "Human capital, intermarriage and the assimilation of immigrants /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3174604.
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Umeda, Yoshimi. "Filipina intermarriage in rural Japan : an anthropological approach." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2010. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2065/.
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This is a study of forty Filipina women married to Japanese men living in a rural farming district in northern Japan. The thesis is concerned with four main areas of enquiry: the initial adjustment of the Filipinas to their new environment; their performance of local gender roles; the religious practices that the women carry out; and the social activities in which they participate. It is an account of the difficulties individuals face and the adjustments they have to make when they decide to settle in a foreign country. It is also an account of the problems of 'accommodation' experienced by Filipinas encountering Japanese society. The difficulties that the women face in their marital lives and the way in which they deal with them indicate both particular characteristics of Japanese society and certain qualities of Filipino personhood. By looking at a transnational experience from this perspective, the thesis attempts to trace the contours of the dynamic interaction between the Filipinas and the Japanese, on the one hand, and between forces of social reproduction and individual choices, on the other. All the Filipinas portrayed here met their spouse (directly or indirectly) through a public intermarriage introduction service provided by Japanese municipal government. Since the intermarriage introduction service was aimed at solving an issue of significant social concern in Japan, namely the 'bride famine' being experienced in rural areas, it is not surprising that there is an extensive body of literature concerning the problem published in Japanese, whereas the lived experiences of these Filipinas have not been much explored. More generally, while marriage between people from different countries has become increasingly common, not much research has yet been conducted on the subject yet. The thesis is therefore intended as a contribution to the ethnography of female transnational migration as well as to that of Filipina intermarriage.
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Levenson, Alan T. "Jewish reactions to intermarriage in nineteenth century Germany /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487683049377407.
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Ananthothai, Sukunyar. "A descriptive analysis of intermarriage patterns in the United States." Connect to resource, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1171310333.
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McGinity, Keren R. "Still Jewish : a history of women and intermarriage in America /." Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3174645.
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Matitiani, Malcolm Salwyn. "The rabbinic attitude to intermarriage as reflected in Midrashic literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3558.
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Khulpateea, Veda Laxmi. "State of the union cross cultural marriages in nineteenth century literature and society /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
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Cogan, Karen B. "Inside intermarriage, the experience of gentile people married to Jewish spouses." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0032/NQ46818.pdf.
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McMillan, Rachel K. "POPULAR MEDIA AND SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE: INTERPRETING RECENT HISTORICAL TRENDS IN INTERMARRIAGE." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/573.
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This thesis is about measuring social acceptance of the American public on the increasing trend of intermarriage in the United States. It outlines U.S. Census data in the areas of population, educational attainment, regional data, and marriage data. It analyzes popular and influential media from 1960 to 2011 including: marriage of Guy Smith and Peggy Rusk, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Star Trek, Jungle Fever, The Joy Luck Club, and modern television shows such as Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, Modern Family, and New Girl.
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Balkanlioglu, Mehmet A. "Influence of Alevi-Sunni Intermarriage on the Spouses’ Religious Affiliation, Family Relations, and Social Environment: A Qualitative Study of Turkish Couples." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84168/.
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What influence Alevi-Sunni intermarriage has on spouses’ individual religious affiliation after marriage was the initial research question addressed in this study. No official or unofficial data exist regarding the Alevi-Sunni intermarriage in Turkey. This study responded to the need to describe extant relationships by using a qualitative approach to gather detailed information from a sample of married couples in Corum city, Turkey. A case study method was applied to a sample of ten couples. Couples were selected using snowball and purposive sampling techniques. A team of researchers conducted forty face-to-face interviews. Each of the ten husbands and ten wives in Alevi-Sunni intermarriages were interviewed twice using semi-structured questionnaires. Additional demographic and observational data were gathered. Spouses in the Alevi-Sunni intermarriages sampled did not change their religious affiliation after marriage. The spouses reported few if any problems in their marital relationships and in child rearing. However, spouses did report many problems with parental families, in-laws, and other relatives. The disapproval and punishments from extended family members are related to the social stigma attached to Alevi-Sunni intermarriages. However, intermarriage, modernization including secularism and pluralism are challenging this stigma. Because of this transition further interdisciplinary studies on Alevi-Sunni intermarriage that explore different dimensions of intermarriage are needed.
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Bratter, Jenifer Lynelle. "Foregrounding the background examining the spatial context of black-white intermarriage in 1990 /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3024996.
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Jones, Jennifer Agee. "To Make Them Like Us: European-Indian Intermarriage in Seventeenth-Century North America." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625916.
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Hu, Yang. "East and west - an intimate encounter : gender and ethnicity in Chinese-British ethnic intermarriage." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709225.
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Dertien, Kim S. "Irrevocable ties and forgotten ancestry : the legacy of colonial intermarriage for descendents of mixed ancestry." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2466.
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The identities of mixed Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal descendents in British Columbia is as varied as it is complex. In this paper I examine what caused some people of mixed Native and non-Native ancestry not to identify as Aboriginal while others did. The point of fracture for those who identify with their Aboriginal origins and those who do not can be traced to a specific time in our history. More importantly, specific variables were instrumental in causing that divergence of identity, spurred by a pervasive social stigma in colonial society. For many of mixed ancestry, the disassociation from their Aboriginal identity led to generations of silence and denial and eventually to a 'complete disappearance of race'. It was a deliberate breeding out of cultural identity through assimilative ideology and actions in order to conform to European norms.
Determining what factors caused this divergence of identity for mixed-descendents entails considering why many Aboriginal women married non-Native partners in B.C. during the mid-19th century, how intermarriage affected identity formation for offspring, and what the multi-generational effects have been on the identities of mixed descendents. Today, this leaves a dilemma for those in-between who are eligible for status, and for those who are not but who choose to reconnect with, acknowledge and learn more of their ancestry. Both assertions of First Nations identity and choices to reconnect with a First Nations heritage while maintaining a non-Native identity, challenge the assumed inevitability of assimilation, and the federal government's continuing reluctance to understand the cultural significance of identification as 'Indian'.
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Sohoni, Deenesh. "Untangling the knot : immigration, intermarriage, and assimilation of Asian ancestry groups in the United States /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8865.
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Ng, Stanley Chun Man. "The better righteousness, intermarriage and Levirate marriage of the Matthean Genesis: from genealogy to community." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11730.
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The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate that Matthew included the name of Uriah (Matt 1:6) in the genealogy (Matt 1:2-17) in order to legitimise granting a fully-fledged Jewish identity to Gentile converts in his own day. Rather than the unnamed Bathsheba, it suggests the four named Old Testament outsiders in the Matthean genealogy, namely, Tamar (Matt 1:3), Rahab (Matt 1:5), Ruth (Matt 1:5) and Uriah (Matt 1:6), with respect to having a “better righteousness”, intermarriage and levirate marriage and argues that this approach brings clearer insight to the social setting of the Matthean community. Part I (chapter 1) examines the scholarly debate about the social setting of the Matthean community from the beginning of the mid 1940s onwards. It summarizes and compares three major redactional perspectives between the mid-1940s and mid-1980s, with the four major sociological perspectives in the 1990s, namely, Graham Stanton, Anthony Saldarini, Andrew Overman and David Sim. It will then examine the interdisciplinary works of Boris Repschinski and Paul Foster of the 2000s, before concluding that the Matthean community was exclusively conflicting with the contemporary Jewish leadership. Although it has been usual to approach the genealogy through seeking the significance of the four OT women, Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and Bathsheba (who, it should be noted, is not actually named), Part II (chapters 2 to 5) argues that this conventional approach has obscured the Matthean intention behind including the name of Uriah in the genealogy. It is better to find the significance of the genealogy by focusing on those who are actually named. Seeking the commonality amongst these named characters, in turn, leads to an examination of “better righteousness”, intermarriage, and levirate marriage in an attempt to illuminate their significance in the genealogy. In regard to “better righteousness”, having examined the Hebrew Scriptures, and Jewish and Christian literature contemporary with Matthew, it will show that the named outsiders group, namely, Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and Uriah (rather than the unnamed Bathsheba), is more righteous than their corresponding characters from the dominant group, namely, Judah (Matt 1:3), Salmon (Matt 1:5), Boaz (Matt 1:5) and David (1:6), respectively. Noting that the four named outsiders were all intermarried, chapter 3 will show that the bans against intermarriage with the seven Canaanite nations (Deut 7:1-4) went through a four-phase development. The four stages were Pentateuchal, Early Second Temple, Mid-late Second Temple and Early Rabbinic. Then it will make a close comparison between the post-Ezran ideology and the Matthean attitude towards Gentile converts in the genealogy, in order to show that, employing a contemporary exegetical technique, Matthew includes Tamar in the genealogy to legitimise the granting of a fully-fledged Jewish identity to Gentile converts. Examining Tamar and Ruth, who are the two unique cases of levirate marriage in the Hebrew Scriptures, and also a whole tractate of the Mishnah concerning this institution from the Early Rabbinic period, this section will contend that Matthew employs the essence of the Israelite levirate institution, namely, to keep the name of the deceased in Israel, to establish the name of Uriah in the genealogy in order to force the legitimisation of the granting of a fully-fledged Jewish identity for Gentile converts. To sustain the thesis that Matthew seeks to legitimise the granting of a fully-fledged Jewish identity to Gentile converts, Part III (chapter 6) examines the internal evidence of the Gospel, to discover the Matthean attitude towards Gentile converts. Having examined fourteen pericopae concerning interactions between Gentile converts and Jewish leaders in Matthew’s Gospel, it will show that: firstly, Matthew reproves contemporary Jewish leaders; secondly, the Matthean Gentile converts are more righteous than the Jewish leaders; and thirdly, Matthew shows Gentile converts as fully-fledged Jewish identities. It concludes that Matthew intends to win Gentile converts into their group and the Matthean community is intra-muros with respect to Judaism.
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Acosta, Salvador. "Crossing Borders, Erasing Boundaries: Interethnic Marriages in Tucson, 1854-1930." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194086.
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This dissertation examines the interethnic marriages of Mexicans in Tucson, Arizona, between 1854 and 1930. Arizona's miscegenation law (1864-1962) prohibited the marriages of whites with blacks, Chinese, and Indians--and eventually those with Asian Indians and Filipinos. Mexicans, legally white, could intermarry with whites, but the anti-Mexican rhetoric of manifest destiny suggests that these unions represented social transgressions. Opponents and proponents of expansionism frequently warned against the purported dangers of racial amalgamation with Mexicans. The explanation to the apparent disjuncture between this rhetoric and the high incidence of white-Mexican marriages in Tucson lies in the difference between two groups: the men who denigrated Mexicans were usually middle- and upper-class men who never visited Mexico or the American Southwest, while those who married Mexicans were primarily working-class westering men. The typical American man chose to pursue his own happiness rather than adhere to a national, racial project.This study provides the largest quantitative analysis of intermarriages in the West. The great majority of these intermarriages occurred between whites and Mexicans. Though significantly lower in total numbers, Mexican women accounted for large percentages of all marriages for black and Chinese men. The children of these couples almost always married Mexicans. All of these marriages were illegal in Arizona, but local officials frequently disregarded the law. Their passive acceptance underscores their racial ambiguity of Mexicans. Their legal whiteness allowed them to marry whites, and their social non-whiteness facilitated their marriages with blacks and Chinese.The dissertation suggests the need to reassess two predominant claims in American historiography: (1) that Mexican-white intermarriages in the nineteenth-century Southwest occurred primarily between the daughters of Mexican elites and enterprising white men; and (2) that the arrival of white women led to decreases in intermarriages. Working-class whites and Mexicans in fact accounted for the majority of intermarriages between 1860 and 1930. The number of intermarriages as total numbers always increased, and the percentage of white men who had the option to marry--i.e., those who lived in Arizona as bachelors--continued to intermarry at rates that rivaled the high percentages of the 1860s and 1870s.
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Sacks, Rachel. "Fearless Foreign Women: Exploring Tamar and Ruth as Characters Within a Post-Exilic Debate on Intermarriage." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1509407369849818.
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Zemmel, Nicola Elise. "Intermarriage, variations on a theme : examining the reality of mixed and conversionary marriage in contemporary Anglo-Jewry." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343505.
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Kim, Su Yun. "Romancing race and gender intermarriage and the making of a 'modern subjectivity' in colonial Korea, 1910-1945 /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3369683.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 16, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219).
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La, Taillade Jaslean Joëlle. "Predictors of satisfaction and resiliency in African American/white interracial relationships /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9192.
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Tesdahl, Eugene Richard Henry. "BONDS OF MONEY, BONDS OF MATRIMONY?: FRENCH AND NATIVE INTERMARRIAGE IN 17th & 18th CENTURY NOUVELLE FRANCE AND SENEGAL." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?miami1049988625.
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Paulo, Bonifacio. "The abolition of intermarriage in Ezra 10 and the ethnic identity of the postexilic Judean community : a hermeneutic study." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96038.
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Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The present study seeks to examine the abolition of intermarriage according to Ezra 10 by asking the question as to what were the compelling reasons for such a social crisis, and to demonstrate its possible implications to ethnic identity in the postexilic Judean community. In order to accomplish this purpose, the researcher has chosen to use an integrated method which allows him to bring different exegetical approaches into dialogue, bearing in mind that the canonical narratives are an outcome of a long process of redaction of both oral and written traditions done by different editors from different socio-historical contexts. It is through this method that this research highlights the following outcomes: first, from a canonical point of view, the final editors understood the exilic experience as an objective outcome of the intermarriage phenomenon which led the Israelites into a complete loss of their group identity, namely – being a Yahwistic community, and it was, therefore, the responsibility of the returnees to avoid, at any cost, letting history repeat itself. Second, the phenomenon of intermarriage in the Hebrew Bible has to be approached from a diachronic perspective. Unlike the patriarchal and deuteronomistic traditions in which intermarriage was about morality and apostasy respectively, in the context of the postexilic community this topic was all about purity – a strong zeal for temple and worship, as particularly witnessed in the priestly tradition. Third, from the fact that these canonical narratives took shape in socio-historical settings where, in addition to the religious factor, there were also other reasons such as political and socio-economic, which contributed significantly not only to the dismissal of those intermarriages, but also to the negotiation of a group identity of the Second Temple addressee. In other words, in response to those socio-historical circumstances, the returnees were compelled to divorce and dismiss their foreign wives and, at the same time, they were shaping their group identity, which came to be known as Judaism.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie poog om die verbod op ondertrouery soos uitgebeeld in Esra 10 te ondersoek deur te vra wat die dwingende redes vir so 'n sosiale krisis was, en om die moontlike implikasies vir etniese identiteit in die posteksiliese Judese gemeenskap te demonstreer. Ten einde hierdie doel te bereik, het die navorser gekies om 'n geïntegreerde metode waarin verskillende eksegetiese benaderings in gesprek gebring word, te gebruik, terwyl in gedagte hou word dat die kanonieke verhale die uitkoms was van 'n lang proses van redaksie van beide mondelinge en geskrewe tradisies, deur verskillende redakteurs uit verskillende sosio-historiese kontekste. Dit is deur middel van hierdie metode dat die navorsing die volgende uitkomste beklemtoon: eerstens, vanuit 'n kanonieke oogpunt, het die finale redakteurs die ballingskapservaring as 'n objektiewe uitkoms van die ondertrouery verstaan wat die Israeliete tot 'n volledige verlies van hul groepsidentiteit as Jahwistiese gemeenskap gelei het, en dit was dus die verantwoordelikheid van die teruggekeerdes om ten alle koste te vermy dat die geskiedenis homself herhaal. Tweedens, die verskynsel van ondertrouery in die Hebreeuse Bybel moet ook vanuit 'n diachroniese perspektief benader word. In teenstelling met die patriargale en deuteronomistiese tradisies waarin ondertrouery oor die boeg van onderskeidelik moraliteit en godsdienstige afvalligheid verstaan is, handel dit in die konteks van die posteksiliese gemeenskap eerder oor reinheid – 'n sterk ywer vir tempel en die erediens soos veral met die priesterlike tradisie geassosieer. Derdens, vanweë die feit dat hierdie kanoniese verhale vorm aangeneem het in sosio-historiese omstandighede waarin, benewens die godsdienstige faktor, daar ook ander faktore, soos die politieke en sosio-ekonomiese, ‘n belangrike rol gespeel het, het hierdie verhale aansienlik bygedra nie net tot die verbod op ondertrouery nie, maar ook tot die onderhandeling van die groepsidentiteit van die Tweede Tempel gemeenskap. Met ander woorde, in reaksie op die sosio-historiese omstandighede, was die teruggekeerdes verplig om te skei en hul vreemde vroue te ontslaan, terwyl hul terselfdertyd bygedra het tot die vorming van ‘n groepsidentiteit wat bekendstaan as Judaïsme.
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Shen, W. "How intermarriage between Chinese women and Caucasian men starting with Internet-dating evolves over time, from the Chinese wives' perspective." Thesis, City, University of London, 2018. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/20286/.
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This research explored how intermarriage between Chinese women and Caucasian men starting with Internet-dating evolves over time from the Chinese wives’ perspective. Existing literature suggests that inter-marriages are often more problematic and less successful than intra-marriages. However, studies focusing on inter-marriage involving both Chinese participants and researchers are scarce. There was historically little knowledge and understanding about this type of inter-marriage. Thus this research aims to generate a theoretical model for mental health professionals to gain a good understanding of it, thereby supporting their clients with increasing evidence-based confidence. On this basis, later researchers could also advance the explorations further in this field. This is a qualitative study adopting Charmaz’s social constructivist grounded theory methodological approach. Four intermarried Chinese wives were recruited, and three-hour (on average) semi-structured in-depth interview was conducted with each participant. The research findings reveal the basic and dynamic social-psychological process of how this particular type of inter-marriage evolves over time. Six sequenced stages are identified, in which the couples purposefully proceeded with their relationships step by step. This is a progressive process to test out the extent to which the reality meets marital expectations and desirable compatibilities, which contributed to the marital satisfactions. ‘Good matches’ cannot always be nicely expected, thus adaptations and problem-solving are involved. This group of Chinese wives demonstrated shared personal attributes and capabilities when facing emerging ‘differences’, ‘difficulties’, and ‘uncertainties’ in their marital lives. In addition, the nature of this type of marriage seems to have determined a developmental tendency, which may have implications for the ongoing marital relationship. The following four core categories crystallized through a thorough and in-depth analysis of data, i.e. 1) Purposefully progressed stages; 2) Good matches: fulfillment of marital expectations and couple compatibilities; 3) Adaptations and problem solving; 4) Shifting contributions and power. All four core categories integrated into a larger whole thus provide a holistic picture of and comprehensive understanding of this type of inter-marriage. This research is original and contributes novel insights to the field of inter-marriage study and counselling psychology.
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Cantelli, Arianna. "Male Jews and female gentiles: intermarriage and exogamous relations in the fiction of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/687.
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Bezzini, Rachele. "Boundary-making in an immigrant social space : Albanian-Italian and Albanian-Romanian couples in Italy." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/74878/.
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This thesis focuses on Albanian-Italian and Albanian-Romanian couples in Italy. Through application of the boundary-making framework to integration and intermarriage, this study looks at the processes by which partners in mixed unions deal with socially constructed boundaries inside and outside the couple and family sphere. The thesis is based on multiple qualitative methods, but primarily on in-depth interviews with 61 Albanian-Italian/Romanian couples in Italy. These research-participant couples differ in terms of marital and family status, place of origin and settlement, education and occupation. The core sample is composed of an Albanian in-between generation, now in their 30s, who emigrated during adolescence for various reasons (asylum, family reunification, healthcare, study, work). Thence, I moved towards an Italian or a Romanian partner of these primary participants. The original contribution of my study is both empirical and theoretical. From an empirical point of view, it explores the topic of intermarriage, which has not been previously examined in the existing literatures on the Albanian and Romanian migrations and is still understudied in Italy. In addition to this, the study specifically takes into account the combination of minority-majority (Albanian-Italian) and minority-minority (Albanian-Romanian) partnerships and marriages, whose conjoint analysis has been largely absent in intermarriage research. From a theoretical point of view, my research shows instead the importance of adopting a relational approach in migration studies through the inclusion of a plurality of social actors within the research design. In fact, while intermarriage in immigrant societies is usually interpreted as an indicator/agent of integration and through the essentialisation of the category of culture, my thesis proposes a novel understanding of intermarriage. I view intermarriage as a site of integration, and I see integration as a multi-way process of boundary change, which involves the national majority as well as multiple immigrant minorities interacting with and identifying each other in the construction of a common social space.
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Hendrickx, John. "The analysis of religious assortative marriage : an application of design techniques for categorical models /." Amsterdam : Thesis Publishers, 1994. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0630/94197532-d.html.
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Erzen-Toyoshima, Mary. "An exploration of cultural differences in Japanese/American intercultural marriages." PDXScholar, 1986. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3595.
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Johnson, Bryan R. "The Context of Contact: White Attitudes Toward Interracial Marriage." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd505.pdf.
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Bagnall, Kate. "Golden shadows on a white land: An exploration of the lives of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia, 1855-1915." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1412.
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This thesis explores the experiences of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has been based on a wide range of sources, including newspapers, government reports, birth and marriage records, personal reminiscences and family lore, and highlights the contradictory images and representations of Chinese-European couples and their families which exist in those sources. It reveals that in spite of the hostility towards intimate interracial relationships so strongly expressed in discourse, hundreds of white women and Chinese men in colonial Australia came together for reasons of love, companionship, security, sexual fulfilment and the formation of family. They lived, worked and loved in and between two very different communities and cultures, each of which could be disapproving and critical of their crossing of racial boundaries. As part of this exploration of lives across and between cultures, the thesis further considers those families who spent time in Hong Kong and China. The lives of these couples and their Anglo-Chinese families are largely missing from the history of the Chinese in Australia and of migration and colonial race relations more generally. They are historical subjects whose experiences have remained in the shadows and on the margins. This thesis aims to throw light on those shadows, contributing to our knowledge not only of interactions between individual Chinese men and white women, but also of the way mixed race couples and their children interacted with their extended families and communities in Australia and China. This thesis demonstrates that their lives were complex negotiations across race, culture and geography which challenged strict racial and social categorisation.
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Bagnall, Kate. "Golden shadows on a white land an exploration of the lives of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia, 1855-1915 /." University of Sydney. Arts. Department of History, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1412.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This thesis explores the experiences of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has been based on a wide range of sources, including newspapers, government reports, birth and marriage records, personal reminiscences and family lore, and highlights the contradictory images and representations of Chinese-European couples and their families which exist in those sources. It reveals that in spite of the hostility towards intimate interracial relationships so strongly expressed in discourse, hundreds of white women and Chinese men in colonial Australia came together for reasons of love, companionship, security, sexual fulfilment and the formation of family. They lived, worked and loved in and between two very different communities and cultures, each of which could be disapproving and critical of their crossing of racial boundaries. As part of this exploration of lives across and between cultures, the thesis further considers those families who spent time in Hong Kong and China. The lives of these couples and their Anglo-Chinese families are largely missing from the history of the Chinese in Australia and of migration and colonial race relations more generally. They are historical subjects whose experiences have remained in the shadows and on the margins. This thesis aims to throw light on those shadows, contributing to our knowledge not only of interactions between individual Chinese men and white women, but also of the way mixed race couples and their children interacted with their extended families and communities in Australia and China. This thesis demonstrates that their lives were complex negotiations across race, culture and geography which challenged strict racial and social categorisation.
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Escobedo, Elizabeth. "Tamales with chopsticks : enriching the experience of the multicultural family." Scholarly Commons, 2008. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/703.
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The number of intercultural marriages and families has grown significantly. This qualitative study explores the strengths and challenges of multicultural families and identifies key decisions that intercultural couples face, and resources that can enrich the multicultural family's experience. The findings of this study will reveal valuable insights and strategies for intentional parenting and help multicultural families maximize their strengths and minimize their challenges.
Data was collected from three groups of intercultural couples. Group A consisted of 4 couples raising children birth through pre-school. Group B had 4 couples raising children pre-school through middle school, and group C had 4 couples raising children from middle school through high school. The groups were interviewed on the following areas: strengths and challenges, language, religion, family traditions, customs and food, conflict resolution, perceived difference between their children and families and monocultural children and families, and outside resources.
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Harrison, Joseph. "Exploring educational attainment by immigrant background : An analysis of PISA data in six OECD countries." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-173207.
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Richardson, David. "Les mariages franco-britanniques en France au XVIIIème siècle (c. 1680- c. 1820)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040097.
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Cette thèse s'intéresse aux mariages et aux couples franco-britanniques en France au cours d'un long XVIIIe siècle, s'étendant des années 1680 aux années 1820. Afin de caractériser ces mariages, et la nature de leur mixité, nous avons choisi de les étudier selon trois approches : juridique, communautaire et socioculturelle. La première approche a exposé les différences entre le droit matrimonial britannique et français et a déterminé comment se contractait un mariage unissant deux personnes de nationalité, et souvent de religion, différente, en notant comment la justice française a su construire des réponses aux problèmes spécifiques posés par de tels mariages. Un intérêt particulier a été porté à la question de ces mariages face à la norme étatique et canonique, ainsi qu'à l'enjeu de la nationalité dans le cadre d'un mariage bi-national. La deuxième approche a étudié les pratiques matrimoniales des Britanniques de Nantes et de Boulogne-sur-Mer, en distinguant entre mariages exogames et endogames. Nous avons montré comment le choix de contracter un mariage mixte varie selon la nature de la population britannique dans la ville, selon la génération des Britanniques présents, selon le genre du conjoint britannique, et selon le rang social. La troisième approche a dressé un tableau des couples franco-britanniques, en analysant leurs rencontres, leurs choix linguistiques, religieux et éducatifs, et leurs difficultés. Nous avons ainsi montré l'émergence d'une culture familiale franco-britannique. Notre travail témoigne comment, à l'échelle des autorités, de la ville et du couple, le mariage franco-britannique a pu se concevoir comme un vecteur privilégié d'intégrationThis thesis offers a study of Franco-British couples and marriages in France during a long eighteenth century, from the 1680s to the 1820s. In order to characterise and demonstrate the exact nature of their diversity, they have been studied from three angles : legal, social and cultural. The first highlights the differences between British and French marriage law, and defines how a marriage between people of different nationalities, and often different religions, was observed. It also establishes the solutions brought to the specific problems arising from such intermarriages by the French justice system. Particular emphasis has been put on how these marriages accommodated State and canonical conventions, as well as on the issue of nationality with regard to binational marriages. The second angle examines the marriage practices of the British population in the French towns of Nantes and Boulogne-sur-Mer, differentiating between endogamous and exogamous marriages. This thesis also shows the variables governing the choice to marry into the French community: the nature of the British presence; the generation the British migrants belonged to; the gender of the British spouse; social rank. The third angle paints a comprehensive picture of Franco-British couples by analysing how they met, their choices of language, religion and schooling. From this can be established the emergence of a Franco-British family culture. This work thus indicates that Franco-British marriages can be viewed, by officialdom, local populations and the couples themselves, as a privileged vector of integration into French society
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Nottmeyer, Olga [Verfasser]. "Intermarriages and their impact on Germany's society / Olga Nottmeyer." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1025511255/34.
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Cerchiaro, Francesco. "Fare casa fuori casa. Processi di mixité coniugale nei racconti di vita delle coppie miste in Veneto." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3426638.
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Nowadays, the concepts of difference, identity and culture structure the discourse on the complexity of contemporary societies. Most of the debates concerns political actions and conflicts seem now to address the issue of protection, claim or recognition of difference (Colombo & Semi, 2007). Mixed couples are, at the same time, both index and agent of change (Gritti, 2004). They are closely related to the increase of migration flows and provide us with a closer perspective to analyse the processes of growing pluralism in our society.
This study is focused on the processes of mixité conjugale in the life stories of 15 mixed couples characterized by male migrants from countries with Muslim tradition married to Italian women. These couples embody, indeed, an emblematic case study within the phenomenon of "mixed" couples, since they led to their implicit macro dimension which links to cultural, religious, gender and class differences, represented as "strong differences" in the public debate (Saraceno, 2007).
The participant observation and the discursive representations result from more than 50 meetings with 15 families residing in various areas of the Veneto Region. Individual interviews were conducted with both partners, sometimes with their children, but also with witnesses such as relatives or friends of the couple.
The core of my fieldwork is represented by the partners’ recits de vie (Bertaux, 1981) through which I focused on how these couples built alliances in their everyday interaction, then in the comparison of cultural, family and parenting models, that are the beating heart and the specificity of each mixité.
The PhD thesis follows the coordinates that these life stories trace, thus reconstructing the geography of their mixité. The emphasis is initially located on the osmotic connection between “inside” and “outside”, which represents the symbolic space where the couple is placed. These narratives prove to be valuable indicators to reveal the reactions that the union raises in their respective groups. This interdependence between internal and external highlights the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion which are triggered by the formation of the couple.
Starting from a more general overview on what makes mixité a cultural construction linked to the perception of the “difference” in a given social context, our reflection moves, therefore, into the processes of mixité conjugale. Thus, we enter the everyday life dimension of their narratives, where partners recount their choices, fragmented by that complex of practices which produces a shared couple’s dimension. These narratives show us partners’ experience in living difference, discussing and rewriting cultural boundaries. To analyse how partners build their own "practical knowledge" in the everyday life dimension (Gouldner, 1975; Colombo & Semi, 2007) means to provide polyphony to those cultural processes often reified and reduced to monolithic and unchanging containers. To interpret and to live pluralism in daily practices reveal a continuous synergy between partners and between them and their cultural backgrounds.
Looking at the cultural boundaries implies to illuminate the symbolic space occupied by the alter in the couple. Differences become a resource which is at the same time claimed, overcome, denied or modified by the partners. Love on the background is the “communication code” (Luhmann, 1982) which conveys and solves the sense of complexity – as it is managed by the couple - through its capability to live the difference in the daily dimension. Love which challenges the boundaries of what is legitimate and pure (Douglas, 1970), sometimes rewriting them, writing its proper way to “be a couple”, “to make family”, “to make home away from home”.Abstract Differenza, identità e cultura risultano oggi concetti che costruiscono l’asse su cui si incardina il macro discorso relativo alla complessità delle nostre società contemporanee. Gran parte dei dibattiti, delle preoccupazioni, delle azioni politiche e dei conflitti sembrano ruotare oggi intorno al tema della difesa, della rivendicazione o del riconoscimento della differenza (Colombo&Semi, 2007). Le coppie miste insieme come indice e fattore di cambiamento (Gritti, 2004) strettamente correlato all’aumento dei flussi migratori ci offrono una prospettiva ravvicinata per studiare i processi che sottintendono il crescente pluralismo delle nostre società. La presente ricerca si basa su uno studio etnografico volto ad indagare i processi di mixité coniugale nei racconti di vita di 15 coppie miste caratterizzate da uomini migranti provenienti da Paesi di tradizione musulmana sposati con donne italiane. Queste coppie rappresentano, infatti, un caso di studio emblematico all’interno del fenomeno delle coppie “miste” proprio perché riconducono ad una loro implicita dimensione macro che mette l’una accanto all’altra, nello spazio sociale della famiglia, differenze culturali, religiose, di genere e di classe rappresentate come “differenze forti” nel dibattito pubblico (Saraceno, 2007). L’osservazione partecipante e le rappresentazioni discorsive raccolte nascono da più di 50 incontri con 15 famiglie residenti in varie località del Veneto. Nelle loro case sono state svolte interviste individuali ai partner, talvolta ai figli, ma anche ai testimoni privilegiati quali parenti o conoscenti della coppia. Al centro del mio lavoro sul campo vi sono i racconti di vita (Bertaux, 1981) dei partner, per focalizzarmi sull’analisi di come vengano costruite alleanze proprio nell’interazione quotidiana e ravvicinata con l’alter, quindi nel confronto tra modelli culturali, familiari e genitoriali che costituiscono poi il cuore pulsante e la specificità di ogni mixité coniugale. La tesi segue le coordinate che questi racconti di vita tracciano, ricostruendo così la geografia della loro mixité. L’accento è inizialmente posto sulla connessione osmotica tra interno ed esterno che è lo spazio simbolico entro cui la coppia si rappresenta. Queste narrazioni risultano essere dei preziosi indicatori per portare alla luce quel complesso sistema di reazioni e relazioni che l’unione solleva nei rispettivi gruppi di riferimento. Proprio questa dinamica di interdipendenza tra interno ed esterno mette in evidenza i meccanismi di inclusione ed esclusione che si innescano intorno al formarsi della coppia. Da ciò che fa della mixité una costruzione culturale legata proprio alla percezione della differenza in un dato contesto passiamo, dunque, all’interno dei processi di mixité coniugale. Volgiamo così lo sguardo alla dimensione quotidiana del racconto di vita, dove i partner narrano la scelta frammentata in quell’insieme complesso e sfaccettato di prassi costruito ed elaborato dai partner per creare una dimensione condivisa di coppia. Esso diventa così un racconto che coinvolge i partner: la loro esperienza nel vivere la differenza, nel mischiare le culture tracciandone, negoziandone e riscrivendone i confini. Analizzare come i partner costruiscano il proprio “sapere pratico” nella dimensione quotidiana (Gouldner, 1975; Colombo&Semi, 2007) permette di dare polifonia a quei processi culturali spesso reificati ed essenzializzati come contenitori monolitici ed immutabili. La varietà dei modi di interpretare e vivere il pluralismo nel racconto delle pratiche quotidiane ci parla, così, di come vi sia una continua sinergia tra i partner e tra questi e le reti che li legano al contesto sociale italiano e a quello di origine del partner straniero.
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Noa, Siaosi Ashalyna Sialataua. "Catching the Dragon's Tail: The Impact of the Chinese in Samoa." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4257.
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Contemporary Samoan society is a reflection of a number of different cultures and influences. As a result of several attempts at colonisation by the British, German and New Zealand Administrations the cultural landscape of Samoa has been influenced by many different groups and peoples. As a result of integration and assimilation into the Samoan way of life the Chinese have been accepted into Samoan society and have contributed to the development of Samoan culture and identity. This thesis explores the history of the Chinese in Samoa as a method of uncovering the true extent of the influence played by the Chinese, both as a people and as a nation, in the make-up of Samoan society. It uncovers the roles and impacts of the Chinese in the island nation from the first Chinese arrivals in the late 19th century, through various political administrations and into the present day. The thesis will illustrate the importance of the Chinese in Samoa and how they have contributed to, and helped to shape, the Samoan people, politics, culture, identity and economy. This thesis explains the importance of the Chinese in Samoa by examining important events in Samoan history in the past 150 years. Such events include the forbidding of Chinese settlement in Samoa through the Malietoa Laupepa Law of 1880, the establishment of the Chinese indentured scheme, and the ‘new wave’ of Chinese aid being poured into the Pacific, including Samoa, in recent times.
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Richardson, David. "Les mariages franco-britanniques en France au XVIIIème siècle (c. 1680- c. 1820)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040097.
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Cette thèse s'intéresse aux mariages et aux couples franco-britanniques en France au cours d'un long XVIIIe siècle, s'étendant des années 1680 aux années 1820. Afin de caractériser ces mariages, et la nature de leur mixité, nous avons choisi de les étudier selon trois approches : juridique, communautaire et socioculturelle. La première approche a exposé les différences entre le droit matrimonial britannique et français et a déterminé comment se contractait un mariage unissant deux personnes de nationalité, et souvent de religion, différente, en notant comment la justice française a su construire des réponses aux problèmes spécifiques posés par de tels mariages. Un intérêt particulier a été porté à la question de ces mariages face à la norme étatique et canonique, ainsi qu'à l'enjeu de la nationalité dans le cadre d'un mariage bi-national. La deuxième approche a étudié les pratiques matrimoniales des Britanniques de Nantes et de Boulogne-sur-Mer, en distinguant entre mariages exogames et endogames. Nous avons montré comment le choix de contracter un mariage mixte varie selon la nature de la population britannique dans la ville, selon la génération des Britanniques présents, selon le genre du conjoint britannique, et selon le rang social. La troisième approche a dressé un tableau des couples franco-britanniques, en analysant leurs rencontres, leurs choix linguistiques, religieux et éducatifs, et leurs difficultés. Nous avons ainsi montré l'émergence d'une culture familiale franco-britannique. Notre travail témoigne comment, à l'échelle des autorités, de la ville et du couple, le mariage franco-britannique a pu se concevoir comme un vecteur privilégié d'intégrationThis thesis offers a study of Franco-British couples and marriages in France during a long eighteenth century, from the 1680s to the 1820s. In order to characterise and demonstrate the exact nature of their diversity, they have been studied from three angles : legal, social and cultural. The first highlights the differences between British and French marriage law, and defines how a marriage between people of different nationalities, and often different religions, was observed. It also establishes the solutions brought to the specific problems arising from such intermarriages by the French justice system. Particular emphasis has been put on how these marriages accommodated State and canonical conventions, as well as on the issue of nationality with regard to binational marriages. The second angle examines the marriage practices of the British population in the French towns of Nantes and Boulogne-sur-Mer, differentiating between endogamous and exogamous marriages. This thesis also shows the variables governing the choice to marry into the French community: the nature of the British presence; the generation the British migrants belonged to; the gender of the British spouse; social rank. The third angle paints a comprehensive picture of Franco-British couples by analysing how they met, their choices of language, religion and schooling. From this can be established the emergence of a Franco-British family culture. This work thus indicates that Franco-British marriages can be viewed, by officialdom, local populations and the couples themselves, as a privileged vector of integration into French society
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Graham, David J. "The socio-spatial boundaries of an 'invisible' minority : a quantitative (re)appraisal of Britain's Jewish population." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9bdbd348-b50c-4090-9e2d-e86ffe198601.
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This study, located in the disciplines of human geography and demography, explores the socio-spatial boundaries encapsulating Britain’s Jewish population, particularly at micro-scales. It highlights and challenges key narratives of both Jewish and general interest relating to residential segregation, assimilation, partnership formation, exogamy and household living arrangements. It presents a critical exploration of the dual ethnic and religious components of Jewish identity, arguing that this ‘White’ group has become ethnically ‘invisible’ in British identity politics and, as a consequence, is largely overlooked. In addition, the key socio-demographic processes relating to Jewish partnership formation are addressed and a critical assessment of data pertaining to the decline of marriage, the rise of cohabitation and the vexed topic of Jewish exogamy, is presented. The analysis culminates by linking each of these issues to the micro-geographical scale of the household and develops a critical assessment of this key unit of Jewish (re)production. Jewish population change is contextualised within the framework of the second demographic transition. This deliberately quantitative study is designed to exploit a recent glut of data relating to Jews in Britain. It interrogates specially commissioned tables from Britain’s 2001 Census as well as four separate communal survey data sources. It highlights and challenges recent geographical critiques of quantitative methodologies by presenting a rigorous defence of quantification in post-‘cultural turn’ human geography. It emphasises the importance and relevance of this fruitful shift in geographical thought to quantitative methods and describes the role quantification can now play in the discipline. Above all, it synthesises two disparate sets of literature: one relating to geographical work on identity and segregation, and the other to work on the identity, demography and cultural practices of Jews. As a result, this thesis inserts the largely neglected ethno-religious Jewish case into the broader geographical literature whilst developing a critical quantitative spatial agenda for the study of Jews.
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Noël-Girard, Sabine. "Amours invisibles, familles interdites, entre Blancs et Noirs à l’île Bourbon (La Réunion) : détours des lois sociales et juridiques des origines à l’abolition de l'esclavage (1665-1848)." Thesis, La Rochelle, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LAROF003.
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« Deffense aux François d’épouser des négresses, cela dégoûterait du service, et deffense aux noirs d’épouser des blanches, c’est une confusion à éviter ». L’article XX de l’ordonnance de Jacob Blanquet de La Haye, vice-roi, amiral et lieutenant pour le Roy dans tous les pays des Indes, pose clairement l’interdiction de l’intermariage à l’île Bourbon en 1674. Cette législation, ignorée dans les débuts du peuplement de la colonie, se voit renforcée par la suite lors du passage d’une société de subsistance à une société esclavagiste. Pourtant, certains sont déterminés à « faire famille » et à déjouer les obstacles juridiques et sociaux mis en place contre ces unions interdites. C’est à dire rendre possible la transmission d’un héritage symbolique et matériel. Ces amours invisibles sont-ils vraiment secrets ? Au fil de l’archive, nous avons retrouvé ces familles, tolérées dans un entre-deux que révèlent les actes notariés et d’état civil, mais qui doit avant tout rester discret. Familles minoritaires, gommées des mémoires, elles relatent la capacité de ces hommes et de ces femmes à résister aux modèles clivés de la société coloniale esclavagiste« It is strictly forbidden for French men to marry Negroes, it would divert them from work, and it is forbidden for Negro Slaves to intermarry with white women, it is an embarrassment to avoid ». The article 20 of the order taken by Jacob Blanquet de la Haye, viceroy, admiral and lieutenant for the King on all East Indies, sets clearly the ban on the intermarriage in Bourbon island in 1674. This legislation, initially ignored by the populating of the colony, sees itself strengthened afterward during the passage from a society of subsistence to a slave-owning society. Nevertheless, some are determined « to start a family » and to thwart the legal and social obstacles set up against these forbidden unions. That is make possible the transmission of a symbolic and material inheritance. Are these invisible love relationships really secret ? In the course of the archive, we have found these families, tolerated in an in-between which reveal notarial and civil status documents, but which has to remain discreet. Minority families, erased from memories, they tell the capacity of these men and these women to resist the cleaved models of the slave colonial society
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Antal, Surinder. "Examining the experience of individuals in intermarriage." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9132.
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The purpose of this research was to explore what facilitates and hinders
intermarried individuals' adjustment in their marriage. A Critical Incident Technique was
used to elucidate the incidents that facilitated and hindered their adjustment. In this study,
only facilitating incidents were analyzed. The intermarried individuals consisted of five
Indo-Canadians and six Caucasian (Canadians). The participants took part in an
interview in which they were asked to describe incidents that have hindered and facilitated
their adjustment in their intermarriage. The interviews were audiotaped and transcribed.
The transcripts were then analyzed and critical incidents that facilitated their adjustment in
the intermarriage were explicated. As a result, 22 critical incidents were described as
facilitating their adjustment in intermarriage. These incidents include: interest in,
appreciation of, acceptance of, respect for, and partaking in spouse's culture; support and
acceptance from key people in the immediate and extended family for self and spouse;
view of cultural differences as enhancing the relationship; commitment to resolving
differences and conflicts; having fun together through shared interests and a sense of
humor; flexibility and openness towards raising their children; common values and
beliefs; shared future goals, love, commitment to, and trust in the relationship; honouring
personal convictions in the face of challenges; personal philosophies, attitudes, values, and
beliefs; willingness to compromise on, ability to accommodate, adjust, and accept their
differences; personal characteristics of spouse; acculturation to the partner's (Caucasianmainstream)
culture, balanced by the desire and the ability to maintain some aspects of
their own (Indian) culture; viewing personal and cultural differences as an opportunity to
learn a different way of doing things; familiarity with spouse's cultural context prior to marriage; complementing and balancing gender roles; ongoing recognition and awareness
throughout the marriage of initial hardships in getting together as a couple; recognizing,
acknowledging, and appreciating parents' willingness to learn and shift some of their
values and beliefs; supporting each other; being able to anticipate challenges and struggles
that would be involved in intermarriages prior to getting married forced the individuals to
examine commitment; resolution of emotional issues about the intermarriage reached by
both families prior to or through the wedding; sibling marrying out.
These critical incidents were then presented to each of the participants in a follow
up interview for validation. The findings of this study are discussed in terms of
implications for further research as well as implications for counselling individuals and
couples who are experiencing challenges as they pursue and adjust in intermarriages.
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Ya-yu, Tsai, and 蔡雅玉. "A Study of Intermarriage Between Taiwanese and Vietnamese." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78827924895422105773.
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This study argues the intermarriage between Taiwanese and Vietnamese, from three different perspectives: political, economy and social factors. We want to discuss what reasons are making this phenomena increase so quickly, the role of state and the role of marriage brokers. Here are some findings of this study: 1. Political factor: Taiwan government has made some policies restricting women from China marrying Taiwanese men, this causes Taiwanese men to search for their spouses in other ways to merry to another countries, like Vietnamese women. President Lee''''''''''''''''s “ No Haste, Be patient” policy also acts to speed up the relationships between Taiwan and Vietnam. 2. The role of state: From interviews with the staff of Taiwan and Vietnam’s government, we can find that they play definite different roles in this phenomena. The Vietnamese government plays a negative role to face the situation that more and more Vietnam women come to Taiwan. On the other side, the attitude of Taiwan’s government has become more positive in the last five years. Now there are more and more public classes for foreign brides and these classes are all free. All these policies may give these foreign brides help to adjust to different environment. 3. The types of “marriage brokers” : This study discusses that there are four types of marriage brokers: (1) the industry in Vietnam; (2) some marriage agencies in Taiwan; (3) labor agency; (4) personal relationships. Social networks play an important role in these four types of marriage brokers, because the networks of marriage brokers in Taiwan and Vietnam by speeding the intermarriage between Taiwanese and Vietnamese.
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羅金枝. "Hakkas saisiyat intermarriage with the phenomenon of acculturation." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28467348669518259460.
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There are 14 indigenous peoples in Taiwan, among whom, the Saisiyat people are composed of southern Saisiyat and northern Saisiyat according to geographic positions. Southern Saisiyat people distributed in Nanzhuang Township, Miaoli County and the northern Saisiyat people distributed in Wufong Township, Hsinchu County are of the same blood relationship. Till now, the population is less than 6,000. The population grew slowly under the Japanese rule from 1911 to 1946, greatly increased from 1946 to 1964 when the Japanese rule ended, and gradually decreased since 1964. Over the past decade, the Saisiyat population was in serious decline. How many people among the less than 6,000 population can speak Saisiyat language? Language is the carrier of culture as well as the password. Without language, there will be no culture; without language, the people shall be on the verge of extinction. It’s a rather common phenomenon for Saisiyat people in Nanzhuang Township, Miaoli County to speak Hakka, but whether the decline of the Saisiyat population is acculturated, assimilated or integrated into the Hakka? Based on the period from 1905 when it was under the Japanese rule till now and taking a fair stand, the paper interprets the matrilocal marriage of the Saisiyat people in the region extending from the 10-li (about 5 kilometers) river sides at the upper stream of Zhonggang Stream, Miaoli County all the way down to Neiwan, and analyzes whether the intermarriage of the Saisiyat people and the Hakka would accelerate the growth or decline of the language or the blending of culture. From the perspectives of family & relatives, lifestyle, religion, worship and songs, the author adopts the qualitative research and restores foreign peoples’ long-term legend and depiction of the Saisiyat people by means of literature review, field investigation, in-depth interview and comparative research method, aiming to uncover Saisiyat’smysterious veil and observe the intermarriage of the Saisiyat people to the Hakka from a brand-new perspective.
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Lai, Sylvia H. G. "The intermarriage experiences of four Chinese Canadian women." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11301.
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This study examined the marriage experiences of four Chinese Canadian women who are
married to Caucasian husbands in Canada. Employing a phenomenological qualitative
approach, in - depth interviews were conducted with these women in the ethnically
diverse city of Vancouver, exploring their lived experiences in these relationships.
The findings in this study reflect upon this and tries to bring some understanding to this
rather complex phenomenon. The first finding is the non - accidental nature in who we
choose to bring into our world. This important element was highlighted in the findings as
it speaks to the reasons why we seek certain people to be in our life, including our
spouses. The women in this study all spoke about early influences and experiences
which reflected a sense of being an outsider in their own world at some point. These
experiences have in one form or another shaped how these women approached
relationships and in particular marriage. The second finding speaks to the effortlessness
which these women present when moving between their Chinese and Canadian culture.
The skills of negotiating and interpreting were highlighted by one of the women as a role
that she has grown up with but now also finds useful in her marriage. This role appears
almost invisible to most people because of the way these women incorporate it into their
day to day living. The last major finding is the importance of seeking a balance between
the two cultures in intermarriage. In doing so, it allowed the women in this study to find
a safe place for them to freely express the two sided nature of their culture which up until
then remained separated. In some cases it also provided the impetus to revisit their
culture of origin to rework another understanding of the role of Chinese culture in their
lives.
The findings of this study provide a beginning understanding into the work which these
four women negotiated in intermarriage to achieve a balance between the Canadian and
Chinese cultures in which they live. The findings from this study bridge a gap in the
understanding of the phenomenon of interracial relationships in Canada and contribute to
a broader cross cultural practice in social work and family therapy.
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Liu, Mei-Fang, and 劉美芳. "Lived experiences of intermarriage among Filipino women in Taiwan." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94129172881188985542.
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Data were gathered initially through in-depth interviewing and participant-observation to hear and observe the voice, emotion and actions, as methods to capture informants’ lived experiences. The purpose of this research is to explore how Filipino women married to Taiwanese men live and experience intermarriage in Taiwanese families. Thick description is used to reconstruct the lived experiences of Filipino women of intermarriage in Taiwanese families. This research was conducted in both city /county of Kaohsiung and PingTung in Taiwan. The principles of sampling in this research were “maximum variation” and “intensity”. Thirteen Filipino women married to Taiwanese men participated in this research, data was analyzed using 5 steps in the interpretive process suggested by Denzin (1989). From sequence of time, data shown: “ transition”, “shuffled into a corner”, and “who am I?”,these three themes represent the lived experiences of Filipino women in intermarriage in Taiwanese families. “Transition” included: “ to take a road”, “in-between”, and “my family” these three categories reconstruct Filipino women leaving the Philippines, looking forward to a new start and walking into intermarriage. “Shuffled into a corner” embraced three categories which are: “I am the only one”, “It’s not what I want”, and “I do not belong here” epitomized the new comers’ feelings and experiences living within Taiwanese families. “ Who am I ?” included: “I am not a wife”, “ I am not a mother”, “I am a maid”, “I am just ‘The’ Filipino”, “ He doesn’t respect me” “ He doesn’t understand me”, and “ I am suffering” these 7 categories picture the Filipino women searching and wondering about their positions in Taiwanese families. This research epitomizes the lived experiences of Filipino women in intermarriage in Taiwanese families, and also shows how she suffers when two different cultures encounter one another. The researcher discussed those sufferings and proposed suggestions for the nursing profession and the Taiwanese government. Finally, from interaction with the deeply personal and self-revealing stories of those Filipino women, the researcher gave her own reflection.
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"Marrying in and out of whiteness: Twentieth-century intermarriage narratives." Tulane University, 2008.
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My dissertation, 'Marrying in and out of Whiteness: Twentieth-Century Intermarriage Narratives,' examines shifting American perceptions of race, ethnicity, and whiteness through the formula of the intermarriage story. In each chapter, I do a comparative study of black/white interracial marriage and WASP/white ethnic intermarriage stories. Through this intertextual analysis, I reveal how at different points throughout the twentieth century, white and nonwhite ethnics launched a collaborative deconstruction of white dominant culture ideals, while at other historical moments these groups have turned against each other in their efforts to better the conditions of their respective cultural communities. I argue that the narratives shift from stories of marrying into whiteness during the early twentieth century---when whiteness was equated with citizenship, privilege, ideal beauty, and personal safety---to stories of marrying out of whiteness after World War II---when whiteness becomes associated with repression, emptiness, imperialism, materialism, and the absence of community. In addition, I analyze why the mid-century era (from the onset of World War II to the Civil Rights Movement) is integral in reversing the formula of American intermarriage texts to stones which idealize 'otherness' and deconstruct 'whiteness.' I discuss a range of texts, including works by authors Israel Zangwill, James Weldon Johnson, Anzia Yezierska, Flannery O'Connor, Nella Larsen, George Schuyler, Helen Barolini, Bernard Malamud, Margaret Mitchell, Alice Walker, and Philip Rothacase@tulane.edu
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Mendelson, Omer Astar. "Lovers without borders self-reflections on the relationships of cross-national and cross-cultural couples of Korean women partnered with North American non-Asian men : a project based upon an independent investigation /." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/9912.
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