Immigration and the rate of population mixing: explorations with a stylized model

The integration or mixing of immigrants with non-immigrants is an important issue in many countries. There are various forms of mixing. We consider here cross-parenting, the bearing of children with one immigrant parent and one non-immigrant. Our objective is to model cross-parenting as a demographic process and investigate the rate at which such mixing could occur.We identify three populations within an overall total: non-immigrant, immigrant, …