In the article "Migrants, partner selection and integration: crossing borders?" Erna Hooghiemstra analysis why so many Dutch Turks and Moroccans who have spent their youth or their young adulthood in the Netherlands, have chosen to marry a partner who still lives in the country of origin. The objective is to explore the extend to which the high rate of transnational marriages can be explained by (a lack of) integration on the one hand or by factors that are usually put forward as influencing partnerselection - such as the opportunity to meet, the structure and character of the social network and individual processes of rational choice - from the other hand. The statistical comparison between those Turkish and Moroccan who married a so called marriage-migrant and those who married a partner from the Netherlands shows that the two groups differ significantly from each other. Also: the motives of men and women to marry across the border seem to be very distinct. Some differences between the two types of partnerchoices can be explained by integration theories others by general partnerchoice theories. The general conclusion is that understanding of the partnerchoice of migrants goes beyond the boundary of knowlegde of integration processes as well as general processes of partnerselection. The important implication is that integration alone can't explain the partnerchoice of migrants and that a general perspective on partnerchoice without considering the specific background of migrants is too limited to understand the partnerchoice of migrants.

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statistical analysis Netherlands data analysis Turkey (republic) Review cultural factor family study social adaptation integration human Morocco migration