This article provides insight into immigrant intermarriage in France. It describes trends of immigrant marital behaviour between 1976 and 2000, compares intermarriage rates amongst different immigrant groups and pays particular attention to changes in marital behaviour across immigrant generations. The statistical analyses take into account individual factors and contextual effects such as the sex-ratios and sizes of the groups in question. Based on data from the Échantillon démographique permanent (Permanent Demographic Sample, EDP) of the Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Écono-miques (INSEE), findings point to a stable trend of marital behaviour among immigrant men and women over time, sharp differences in intermarriage rates among groups, and a significant change in the marital behaviour of second-generation immigrants, who intermarry much more often than their parents regardless of their origin.

Contextual variables Assimilation Immigration second generation Intermarriage

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