Towards an Interactive Acculturation Model: A Social Psychological Approach
Open Access
- 1 December 1997
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 32 (6) , 369-386
- https://doi.org/10.1080/002075997400629
Abstract
The first part of this paper proposes a continuum of ideological premises that seeks to account for the broad range of immigrant integration policies adopted by Western democratic states. In the second part, a review of Social Psychological models of immigrant acculturation strategies demonstrates the need to explain more clearly the interactive nature of immigrant and host community relations. The Interactive Acculturation Model (IAM) presented next proposes that relational outcomes are the product of the acculturation orientations of both the host majority and immigrant groups as influenced by state integration policies. The model makes predictions regarding the acculturation combinations most likely to produce consensual, problematic, and conflictual relational outcomes between immigrants and members of the host community. Social psychological research is needed to test the validity of the IAM model empirically.Keywords
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