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Reframing intercultural supervision: Understanding mainland Chinese doctoral students’ adaptation experiences in Hong Kong 重构跨文化监督：了解中国大陆博士生在香港的适应经验

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2026.102368

Yaqiao Liu , Zihan Wang , Kun Dai

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Internationalisation-at-Home and intercultural communication: Malaysian local students’ experiences in internationalised higher education 国际化-在家与跨文化交流：马来西亚本地学生在国际化高等教育中的经验

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102352

Wei Hua, Siak Bie Soh

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Understanding self-awareness of middle-aged Korean immigrant women in Australia using Q-methodology 用q -方法论了解在澳韩裔中年女性的自我意识

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2026.102363

Jiyoung Han, Eunyoung Choi, Soonhwa Yoo

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Exploring empathy and multicultural acceptance: How Korean adolescents' multicultural experiences shape their intentions for inclusive behavior 探讨共情和多元文化接受：韩国青少年的多元文化经历如何塑造他们的包容性行为意向

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102358

Youn Kyung Woo , JeeEun Karin Nam , Changmin Keum

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"Computer games can change it for us": Serious games and openness to conflict resolution “电脑游戏可以改变我们”：严肃的游戏和对冲突解决的开放态度

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2026.102365

Iolie Nicolaidou , Ronit Kampf

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Unveiling the veil: Addressing SGBV in camps based on Addonia’s Silence is My Mother Tongue 揭开面纱：从阿多尼亚的《沉默是我的母语》看难民营中的性暴力问题

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102354

Amar Bahadur Sherma

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The effects of perceived threat and perceived benefit on the association between societal pessimism and anti-immigrant attitude in Japan 感知威胁和感知利益对日本社会悲观情绪与反移民态度关系的影响

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102359

Takuya Shimokubo

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Redrawing the lines of ‘us’ and ‘them’: How engagement with local diversity through associational life can foster multi-dimensional identity in a post-conflict context 重新划定“我们”和“他们”的界限：如何通过联想生活与当地多样性接触，在冲突后的背景下培养多维身份

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102356

Fidelia Danielle Renne

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Contact with whom? The role of intergroup and intragroup contact in predicting support for diversity ideologies among migrants in Qatar 和谁联系？群体间和群体内接触在预测卡塔尔移民对多样性意识形态的支持中的作用

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2026.102364

Diala R. Hawi , Zacharia Bady , Kumar Yogeeswaran , Sandra Penić , Dana Albustami , Karelis Olivo Rumpf

{"title":"Contact with whom? The role of intergroup and intragroup contact in predicting support for diversity ideologies among migrants in Qatar","authors":"Diala R. Hawi , Zacharia Bady , Kumar Yogeeswaran , Sandra Penić , Dana Albustami , Karelis Olivo Rumpf","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2026.102364","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2026.102364","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how intergroup and intragroup contact predict the endorsement of diversity ideologies among three migrant groups in Qatar: South Asians, Arabs, and Westerners. Qatar's unique demographic, where migrants form the majority yet lack access to citizenship, provides an important setting for examining how diversity ideologies take shape within a stratified migrant hierarchy. Study 1 establishes migrants’ shared perceptions of group status and cultural proximity in Qatar, whereby Westerners are perceived as socio-economically closets to Qataris, while Arabs and South Asians are culturally closer. Study 2 reports findings from multigroup structural equation modeling (SEM) conducted on survey data (N = 886), where Arabs and South Asians endorse assimilation more than Westerners, who favor multiculturalism and interculturalism. Positive contact with Qatari citizens (dominant group) predicts greater assimilation endorsement among Arabs, whereas negative contact with Qataris relates to lower assimilation support among South Asians and Westerners. Additionally, negative contact with other migrant groups relates to higher assimilation endorsement among Arabs and South Asians. These findings suggest that contact might play varying roles depending on a group’s cultural or socio-economic proximity to the dominant group. The study underscores the importance of differentiating between migrant groups and considering both positive and negative contact experiences when examining how these ideologies emerge within stratified migrant contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 102364"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145976842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Nostalgia as a vehicle for improving relations between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs 怀旧是改善以色列犹太人和以色列阿拉伯人关系的工具

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102355

Constantine Sedikides , Tim Wildschut , Hisham M. Abu-Rayya

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