Ethnoracial and Educational Homogamy in Mexico: A Multidimensional Perspective

Braulio Güémez () and Patricio Solís ()
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Braulio Güémez: Duke University
Patricio Solís: Centro de Estudios Sociológicos – El Colegio de México

Population Research and Policy Review, 2022, vol. 41, issue 6, No 2, 2363 pages

Abstract: Abstract A key phenomenon to gauge the degree of ethnoracial integration is the pattern of assortative mating based on ethnoracial characteristics. However, possibly because of the assumption that class and not race is the relevant factor in the Mexican stratification regime, assortative mating based on ethnoracial characteristics has been an understudied phenomenon in the country. Based on a multidimensional perspective and using a novel national representative survey, we analyze ethnoracial homogamy patterns in Mexico using four dimensions: skin tone, ethnoracial identification, indigenous language, and Mayan surname. For comparative purposes, we also calculate and control for educational homogamy in our analysis. Results indicate that ethnoracial homogamy is significantly different to educational homogamy and that it differs among dimensions: the highest likelihood of ethnoracial homogamy is found in the linguistic dimension and the lowest in the skin tone dimension. Comparatively, ethnoracial identification and Mayan surname have intermediate levels of homogamy.

Keywords: Educational homogamy; Ethnoracial homogamy; Ethnoracial characteristics; Mexico; Skin tone; Indigenous language (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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