More than “I do”: Legal status and cultural distance shape marriages and separations
Teona Gherasim
In Italy, marriages between Italian citizens and foreign migrants are considered both a marker and a driver of integration. For many migrants, however, they are also an opportunity to acquire legal status and regular access to the labour market. This column uses data on 3.6 million marriages and over 200,000 separations in Italy to examine how EU enlargements altered marriage incentives and dynamics. Following the enlargements, mixed marriages between Italian citizens and migrants from new EU
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