Structural and Individual Determinants of Outmarriage Among Chinese-, Filipino-, and Japanese-Americans in California.

The article examines Asian American intermarriage in California. The Asian intermarriages are affected by both assimilation and structural determinants. Intermarriage often results from unbalanced sex ratio. In addition, contextual factors, such as, group size, heterogeneity, socioeconomic inequality, and residential segregation also affect intergroup relations and intermarriage. The article proposed an integrated theory and evaluates it by using a sample of married Asian men and women residing in fourteen MSAs in California in 1980. The group size has a consistently negative effect on out marriage for both men and women. Intermarriage between members of different racial or ethnic groups is affected by two sets of factors that are identified by assimilation and structural theorists.