The rates of migration have been drastically rising in recent decades. Millions of people are moving across borders, forced or voluntarily, to live abroad temporarily or permanently. This process leads to the increasing frequency and potential depth of intercultural communication between people of various origins. Migrants are challenged to make sense of their existence, selfhood, and identities in dramatically dynamic sociocultural environments, and the way people adapt to changing and foreign environments have significant implications for their self-perception and sociocultural identification and broadly, for intercultural and intergroup dynamics. However, migrants' adaptation to the local societies influences not only their own life but also contributes to the broader sociocultural dynamics of cultures of ethnic majorities. Therefore, it is crucial to understand mechanisms and regularities associated with developmental dynamics characterizing intercultural relations and migration taking both, the incomers and the already present population's positions into consideration. The latter would allow a better and more comprehensive understanding of fundamental features of mental development through multilateral intercultural experiences.
This Research Topic aims to examine various forms of adaptation to foreign cultural elements and their implications for self-construction, ethnic identification, and cultural diffusion. We are going to focus not only on minorities and immigrants as it is more frequently done but also on various groups like ethnic majorities. We are interested in how local majority groups adapt to newcomers or minorities. Moreover, we plan to explore multicultural environments where several cultural groups are present beyond majorities. The collection will cover diverse trajectories of personal life courses through sociocultural mobilities. The person-centered look is particularly expected to be emphasized along with the research on the sociological level of intergroup dynamics.
Particular phenomena like proculturation, minorities and immigrants’ adaptive strategies, cultural majorities adaptation strategies to foreigners and minorities, conviviality, interculturation, multiculturalism, omniculturalism, and polyculturalism are expected to be explored in the papers involved in the collection.
We expect papers to highlight developmental/qualitative changes evolving throughout social mobility and immigration at the individual and/or sociocultural levels. It is particularly interesting how intercultural experiences affect cultural boundaries and their interrelation. Research of developments in various organizational settings is welcome (education, job market, dealing with legislative frameworks, urban living – cityscapes, etc.)
Theoretical reviews and analyses oriented toward the further development of theories on intercultural dynamics will be particularly welcome. Also, we encourage the submission of manuscripts based on phenomena-centered and ethnographic methodological approaches.
The rates of migration have been drastically rising in recent decades. Millions of people are moving across borders, forced or voluntarily, to live abroad temporarily or permanently. This process leads to the increasing frequency and potential depth of intercultural communication between people of various origins. Migrants are challenged to make sense of their existence, selfhood, and identities in dramatically dynamic sociocultural environments, and the way people adapt to changing and foreign environments have significant implications for their self-perception and sociocultural identification and broadly, for intercultural and intergroup dynamics. However, migrants' adaptation to the local societies influences not only their own life but also contributes to the broader sociocultural dynamics of cultures of ethnic majorities. Therefore, it is crucial to understand mechanisms and regularities associated with developmental dynamics characterizing intercultural relations and migration taking both, the incomers and the already present population's positions into consideration. The latter would allow a better and more comprehensive understanding of fundamental features of mental development through multilateral intercultural experiences.
This Research Topic aims to examine various forms of adaptation to foreign cultural elements and their implications for self-construction, ethnic identification, and cultural diffusion. We are going to focus not only on minorities and immigrants as it is more frequently done but also on various groups like ethnic majorities. We are interested in how local majority groups adapt to newcomers or minorities. Moreover, we plan to explore multicultural environments where several cultural groups are present beyond majorities. The collection will cover diverse trajectories of personal life courses through sociocultural mobilities. The person-centered look is particularly expected to be emphasized along with the research on the sociological level of intergroup dynamics.
Particular phenomena like proculturation, minorities and immigrants’ adaptive strategies, cultural majorities adaptation strategies to foreigners and minorities, conviviality, interculturation, multiculturalism, omniculturalism, and polyculturalism are expected to be explored in the papers involved in the collection.
We expect papers to highlight developmental/qualitative changes evolving throughout social mobility and immigration at the individual and/or sociocultural levels. It is particularly interesting how intercultural experiences affect cultural boundaries and their interrelation. Research of developments in various organizational settings is welcome (education, job market, dealing with legislative frameworks, urban living – cityscapes, etc.)
Theoretical reviews and analyses oriented toward the further development of theories on intercultural dynamics will be particularly welcome. Also, we encourage the submission of manuscripts based on phenomena-centered and ethnographic methodological approaches.
