Partnership preferences of the Belgian second generation: Who lives with whom?

peer reviewed ; Divergent bodies of theory have devoted ample attention to ethnic intermarriage. Using the data from the Belgian TIES project (The Integration of the European Second Generation), this paper focuses on the young Turkish and Moroccan second generation in Belgium and, in contrast to other studies in the field, includes cohabitation in addition to marriages. Furthermore, it distinguishes not only partnerships to natives versus partnerships to nonnatives but three types of partnerships: those to first generation partners, second generation partners and ‘native’ Belgian partners. Our... Mehr ...