Social Integration and Intermarriage in Europe

Drawing on unique, large-scale, cross-national survey data, encompassing natives as well as Turkish, Moroccan, Pakistani and ex-Yugoslav migrants across several Western European countries, this book offers extensive analyses of intermarriage, as well as attitudes towards intermarriage and intergroup dating in general. Conceptualising the willingnes

’Social Integration and Intermarriage in Europe is based on comprehensive discussion of the interrelationship of migrant minorities in terms of status, ethnicity and religious affiliation, with an emphasis on the role of Islam in Europe. It analyses the consequences of interrelationship and intermarriage for the social integration of immigrants in several European societies with distinct policies and opportunity structures. Based on cross-national data and rigorous analysis, it provides detailed empirical results on religious intermarriage in Europe and enhances our understanding of social integration of immigrant minorities.’ Bernhard Nauck, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany ’Sarah Carol has produced a remarkably wide-ranging study concerning one of the most important issues related to migration, ethnicity and religion: how people - and in particular European Muslims - come to choose their partners. The work provides both a synthesis of previous research and fresh findings based on the analysis of new data.’ David Voas, Institute for Social and Economic Research, UK

Sarah Carol is chair for demography and social inequality at the University of Cologne, Germany.