Title: Border-blind love: till origin do us part? A theoretical model to analyse the divorce risk of binational couples

Authors: Nahikari Irastorza; Don J. DeVoretz

Addresses: MIM, Malmö University, 205 06 Malmö, Sweden ' Simon Fraser University, P.O. Box 10012, 3600 248th Street, Aldergrove, BC V4W 3Z5, Canada

Abstract: Mixed marriages are believed to facilitate the integration between immigrants and natives. However, little is known about the development of these unions. We aim to contribute to this field by building an empirically testable theoretical model in which individual, cultural and environmental factors such as the opportunity cost of migration, cultural distance between partners, immigration policies and attitudes toward intermarriage interact to predict the marital stability of binational couples across host countries.

Keywords: binational couples; intermarriage; cultural distance; integration; divorce risk; culture; mixed marriages; immigrants; natives; opportunity cost; migration; immigration policies; attitudes; marital stability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMRM.2015.074172

International Journal of Migration and Residential Mobility, 2015 Vol.1 No.2, pp.107 - 121

Published online: 14 Jan 2016 *

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