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Marital satisfaction of South Asian migrants settled in Australia 在澳大利亚定居的南亚移民的婚姻满意度

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102277

Nigar G. Khawaja , Aparna Hebbani , Agata Vitale , Sina Rejali

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Editorial: Love beyond WEIRD: Exploring new contexts and concepts 社论：超越怪异的爱：探索新的背景和概念

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102268

Claude-Hélène Mayer

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Prediction of societal resilience components in a protracted war 长期战争中社会恢复力因素的预测

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2025-08-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102273

Shaul Kimhi , Hadas Marciano , Yohanan Eshel , Arielle Kaim , Bruria Adini

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Don’t you like us? Don’t you want us? The influence of immigrants’ acculturation strategies on cognitions of rejection in host community members 你不喜欢我们吗？你不想要我们吗？移民文化适应策略对收容社区成员排斥认知的影响

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102271

Susan E. Watt, Yvette D. Alcott, Sarah Feng, Adam Keleher, Ned I. Littlewood

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When (and where) do pandemics foster anti-migrant actions? Individual-, contextual- and societal-level drivers affecting social cohesion during the COVID-19 pandemic 流行病何时（何地）助长了反移民行动？COVID-19大流行期间影响社会凝聚力的个人、背景和社会层面驱动因素

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102269

Tomasz Besta , Emma Thomas , Michał Olech , Paweł Jurek , Danny Osborne , Marek Palace , Gülçin Akbas , Julia C. Becker , Maja Becker , Tymofii Brik , Maria Chayinska , Makiko Deguchi , Sandesh Dhakal , Kaltrina Kelmendi , Anna Kende , Soledad Lamus , Paul Le Dornat , Angela Leung , Sarah E. Martiny , Rie Mizuki , Martijn van Zomeren

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Acculturative stress and psychological well-being: The mediating role of social support, difficulties in emotion regulation, and meaning-centered coping style among international students in Germany 异文化压力与心理健康：社会支持、情绪调节困难和意义中心应对方式在德国留学生中的中介作用

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2025-08-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102272

Rasa Soufi Amlashi , Mohammad Reza Majzoobi , Simon Forstmeier

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Exploring language diversity dimensions and differences in meaningful experiences during short-term study abroad (STSA) 短期海外学习中有意义体验的语言多样性维度与差异研究

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102270

Marina Iskhakova , Dana L. Ott , Andrew Bradly

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Migrants in interethnic partnerships: Between preferences and structural opportunities 跨种族伙伴关系中的移民：偏好与结构性机会之间的关系

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2025-08-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102263

Anne-Kristin Kuhnt , Monika Obersneider

{"title":"Migrants in interethnic partnerships: Between preferences and structural opportunities","authors":"Anne-Kristin Kuhnt , Monika Obersneider","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102263","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102263","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the individual characteristics of migrants in interethnic partnerships living in Germany. Our analyses examine key characteristics extracted from the partner market theory and compare them among interethnic (migrant-native) and intraethnic (migrant-migrant) couples. This approach enables us to learn more about the role of cultural boundaries in the social integration processes of different migrant groups. We go beyond earlier research by focusing not on migrant-native contrasts but on variations within the migrant population, including a comparison of Turkish migrants and ethnic German resettlers, which are the two largest migrant groups in Germany; and by including religion, marital status, and spatial perspectives in our analyses. We also extend prior work by including non-marital partnerships. Our empirical analyses are based on migrant adults aged 14–48. In a first step, we present descriptive findings on the prevalence of interethnic partnerships in our sample. In a second step, we estimate the outcome variable (migrants in interethnic vs. intraethnic partnerships) using cross-sectional regression analyses. The models focus on compositional differences between immigrant groups concerning size and place of residence, education, migrant status, ethnicity, religiosity, sex, relationship status, and age. Our findings support the theoretical elaborations on interethnic partner markets, namely, that preferences and structural opportunities characterize migrants in interethnic partnerships.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102263"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144853017","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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Understanding the experience of belonging of newly arrived Palestinian and Syrian refugee children in a recreational setting 了解新来的巴勒斯坦和叙利亚难民儿童在娱乐环境中的归属感体验

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102267

Hend Alqawasma, Marjorie Aude Rabiau, Nicole Ives

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“Who is my friend?”: The meaning and value of intercultural friendship for Chinese international students during acculturation in Malaysia “谁是我的朋友？”：中国留学生在马来西亚文化适应过程中跨文化友谊的意义和价值

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102266

Melissa Ling Lee Wong , Shuang Liu

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