[Re]Looking for Love: Motives and Reasons for Mixed Unions of Spanish Men with Foreign Women
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https://doi.org/10.3989/rdtp.2011.18Keywords:
Mixed Marriages, Partner Selection, Gender TransformationsAbstract
The paper addresses the recent and growing phenomenon of mixed sentimental unions. It centers on heterosexual couples integrated by a Spanish man and a foreign woman of Latin American or Slavic origin, wich are the predominant in Spain. The initial hypothesis relates this phenomenon to transformations in the gender system in Spain, and contextualizes it in the new global order, characterized by the increase and facility for communication and mobility. Attention is drawn to the motivations expressed by the social actors involved in these unions.
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