Towards a dynamic approach to acculturation

Karen van der Zee; Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven

doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2022.04.004

Towards a dynamic approach to acculturation

Karen van der Zee^*, Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven

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Abstract

One of the most influential models of acculturation is Berry's (1980) two-dimensional model. In this paper we argue that Berry's model does insufficient justice to current demographic and technical developments. Modern societies and particularly big cities are characterized by large immigrant populations as well as super-diversity. Moreover, technical developments allow immigrants to maintain almost unlimited contacts with their original culture. We plea for a more dynamic approach to acculturation that focuses on immigrants as well as non-immigrants and departs from behaviors, cognitions and emotions involved in interactional dynamics at a molecular level, as well as from intercultural competencies. A five-dimensional model of multicultural effectiveness is presented (van der Zee & van Oudenhoven, 2000, 2017), describing cultural empathy, open-mindedness, social initiative, emotional stability and flexibility as competencies that facilitate interactional dynamics that are characterized by an integration of different cultural perspectives.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	119-124
Number of pages	6
Journal	International Journal of Intercultural Relations
Volume	88
Early online date	28 Apr 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2022.04.004
Publication status	Published - May 2022

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Foreword by the President of the International Academy for Intercultural Research, Adam Komisarof. As the President of the International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR), it is my great pleasure to present to you the Webinar Conference 2021 Award Paper Series. In IAIR, the following awards are given biennially: Lifetime Achievement, Best Dissertation, Early Career, and The William B. Gudykunst Outstanding Book Award. Last year, our biennial conference was planned for Rapperswil, Switzerland, yet due to the global pandemic, this event has been postponed until July 2022. However, realizing the needs to move research in our field forward and to provide a venue for IAIR members to meet in 2021, Past President Steve Kulich and his team at Shanghai International Studies University, supported by IAIR's Executive Council and other IAIR members, organized IAIR's first webinar conference on July 12 and 13, 2021. The webinar gave us a formal chance to recognize our biennial awardees, who presented their work online and will have the opportunity to do again in Rapperswil in 2022.

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Keywords

Acculturation
Berry's (1980) model
Cultural frame switching
Dual Concern Theory
Dynamic approach
Fading majorities
Immigrants
Interactive Acculturation Model (IAM)
Intercultural competence
Super-diversity

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