Intermarriage has been argued to be a key indicator of migrants’ integration into the host
society. However, relatively little is known about the experiences of what many forms of
intermarriage entail in a super-diverse context. In this paper, I problematise and further
investigate the assumed link between intermarriage and the cultural, identificational and
interactive dimensions of social integration of Polish migrants in Britain. The analysis is
based on the results of a qualitative research project conducted among Polish migrants
in Birmingham and surrounding towns of the West Midlands, where Poles represent the
third most numerous non-UK-born population. The data collected in the course of this
research suggests that there are three main patterns of interactive integration of Polish
intermarried migrants: (1) the classical path of acculturation and integration, (2) inverse
integration, and (3) the more pluralistic cosmopolitan mode