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662 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 8 (2015)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0662 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION Intermarriage and Integration Revisited: International Experiences and Cross- Disciplinary Approaches By DAN RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA Keywords: immigration; intermarriage; integration; assimilation; social transformation; social cohesion; race; ethnicity Anthropologist Edmund Leach, in his discus- sion of caste and class systems, stated, In a very fundamental way, we all of us distinguish those who are of our kind from those who are not of our kind by asking ourselves the question: 'Do we intermarry with them?' (1967, 19). Indeed, social scientists have been drawn to the investigation of intermarriage for over a century: from the classic anthropological studies of the nineteenth century (McLennan 1865; L. Morgan 1870; Tylor 1889); to the development of classi- cal assimilation theory, first by sociologists of the Chicago School led by Robert E. Park (Park and Burgess 1921; Park 1928) and later entrenched by Milton Gordon (1964); to studies from more current times, in which the subject has been analyzed from many different disciplines. This fascination with intermarriage can be attributed to the realization that the crossing of racial, ethno-cultural, religious, or class boundaries Dan Rodlriguez-Garcia is an associate professor of social and cultural anthropology and director of the INMIX Research Group on Immigration, Mixedness, and Social Cohesion at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His areas of research are international migration, ilmmigrnt integration, interculturalism, ethnicity, internarriage, and mixedness. His current research focuses on identity processes of multiracial youth. NOTE: The editor of this volume would like to thank the Russell Sage Foundation, Tom Kecskemethy, Emily Babson, and Peter Geraghty for their generous help and advice at various stages of this project. Thanks also to Joanna Freedman for her excellent and very helpful editorial feedback, to all the contributors in the volume for their outstanding work, and to the anonymous reviewers for their generous and thoughtful feedback on earlier manuscripts. DOI: 10.1177/0002716215601397 ANNALS, AAPSS, 662, November 2015 S