http://consang.net/index.php/Global_prevalence
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Migrant communities now permanently resident in Western countries may represent a special case, especially where they practice a religion not followed by the majority indigenous population. In such communities, the available evidence from Western Europe, North America and Australasia suggests that the prevalence of consanguineous unions is increasing, in many cases from an already high level (for example, de Costa 1988; Modell 1991; Hoodfar and Teebi 1996; Reniers 1998). Various reasons can be advanced for this finding, including the desire to find a marital partner from within the community, which itself may be numerically small and composed of a restricted number of kindreds, and the wish to maintain community traditions in a new and unfamiliar environment. However, explanations of this type underestimate the strong belief that marriage within the family, as opposed solely to community endogamy, is the most desirable and reliable marital option (Bittleset al. 1991; Hussain and Bittles 1998; Hussain 1999). As previously noted, the current increase in the numbers of persons of marriageable age within these communities effectively facilitates the fulfillment of this belief.
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Mijn idee: ik denk dat dit een rem is op integratie
Mijn vrees: steeds meer segregatie
Mijn hoop: steeds meer vermenging