Gina S. Liu , Marie-Anne S. Rosemberg , Aurora B. Le
{"title":"Characterizing the role of the nail salon and nail salon worker on the ethnic identity development of Michigan nail salon workers’ second-generation Vietnamese American children","authors":"Gina S. Liu , Marie-Anne S. Rosemberg , Aurora B. Le","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>Second-generation Vietnamese individuals are a prominent group in the U.S. with unique experiences, such as their parents’ heavy involvement in the nail salon industry, which shapes their identity. Yet, the experiences of Vietnamese American children who are exposed to the industry through their parents’ occupation and its impact on their ethnic identity has not been explored. This study of second-generation Vietnamese Americans with nail salon worker parents in Michigan aims to address this gap and understand the resulting effects of this biculturalism on ethnic identity development.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>This qualitative study utilized interpretive phenomenology to capture the essence of second-generation Vietnamese Americans’ lived experiences. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using thematic analysis.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Twenty-four individuals participated in the interviews and three major themes emerged with respective subthemes. Theme 1 focused on second-generation child and immigrant child responsibilities, as it relates to their parents’ occupation. Theme 2 focused on top-of-the-mind reactions to nail salons. Theme 3 focused on ethnic identity development while growing up in Michigan.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>This study on the lived experiences of second-generation Vietnamese Americans with parents in the nail salon industry in Michigan has implications for better understanding the influence of racialized or migrant-based U.S. economies on ethnic identity development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102019"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147176724000889/pdfft?md5=67a60f8e06e4af4ca65a10334f4f08e4&pid=1-s2.0-S0147176724000889-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141729504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The dynamics in the relationship between perceived cultural distance, cultural intelligence and adjustment of international students","authors":"Elok D. Malay , Robert J. Coelen , Sabine Otten","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the dynamics between perceived cultural distance (PCD), cultural intelligence (CQ), and international students’ sociocultural, psychological, and academic adjustment. It examines whether CQ (its total score and four sub-components separately from the total CQ) moderates the relationship between PCD and adjustment. By investigating all three dimensions of students’ adjustment, and also distinguishing the four aspects of the CQ, it provides an especially fine-grained analysis of the link between PCD, CQ and international students’ adjustment. In a cross-sectional study, 341 international college students from several universities in the Netherlands participated in an online survey. Moderation analysis (Hayes Process Macro) indicated that overall CQ and motivational CQ moderated only the relationship between PCD and sociocultural adjustment. Further analysis show that when age, gender, level of study, and region of origin controlled, PCD consistently predicted all aspects of students' adjustment negatively. Overall CQ predicted only sociocultural and academic adjusment, but motivational CQ influenced all aspects of adjustment. Together, these results provide an insightful understanding of the role of international students' CQ in their adjustment in the face of cultural differences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102016"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147176724000853/pdfft?md5=1fbc3cbcf115d37e3ae03992addaede9&pid=1-s2.0-S0147176724000853-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141638144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michèle D. Birtel , Gian Antonio Di Bernardo , Loris Vezzali , Rhiannon N. Turner , Richard J. Crisp , Robin Martin
{"title":"Dispositional empathy and personality as predictors of contact quality: The mediating roles of contact self-efficacy and effort towards contact","authors":"Michèle D. Birtel , Gian Antonio Di Bernardo , Loris Vezzali , Rhiannon N. Turner , Richard J. Crisp , Robin Martin","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.101986","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.101986","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While the prejudice-reduction effect of intergroup contact has been extensively demonstrated, research identifying antecedents of positive contact and underlying mechanisms is limited. Two studies, in Italy (<em>N</em> = 239 Italian adolescents) and the UK (<em>N</em> = 299 White British adults), examined dispositional empathy and personality traits as predictors of contact quality, with effort towards contact and contact self-efficacy as underlying mechanisms. Study 1 revealed that empathic concern and extraversion was associated with higher contact quality with immigrants in Italy via greater contact effort. Study 2 replicated and extended these findings, showing that contact self-efficacy and then contact effort sequentially mediated the associations of empathic concern and personality (extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness) with contact quality with Asian British in the UK. Perspective-taking was not associated with contact quality. Our findings highlight the value of integrating dispositional/personality, social cognitive and intergroup approaches in the study of antecedents of contact quality and underlying mechanisms, with implications for the design of prejudice-interventions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101986"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147176724000555/pdfft?md5=5378b46ac76987bcde263b4cc92e1c38&pid=1-s2.0-S0147176724000555-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141638143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rana Muhammad Ayyub , Aleem Raza , Saira Naeem , Chris Dubelaar , Michael SW Lee
{"title":"Ethnic foods serving cultural bridge or barrier? A systematic literature review","authors":"Rana Muhammad Ayyub , Aleem Raza , Saira Naeem , Chris Dubelaar , Michael SW Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>This paper summarizes available qualitative studies on various kinds of ethnic foods, focusing on their potential to build cultural bridges in multicultural societies globally. This systematic literature review provides a detailed account of extracted themes, presents the extent of marketing literature, and indicates the research gaps to be addressed in the future.</p></div><div><h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3><p>The PRISMA methodology for a systematic literature review (SLR) was adopted. Based on specified inclusion and exclusion criteria (i.e. only qualitative studies on ethnic foods published between 1990–2020), a total of 39 studies were found eligible for analysis. The major explored themes from these studies are presented in the form of comparative tables along with interpretations.</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>It was found that most of the marketing literature has explored some superficial aspects of ethnic foods, including quality, taste, and extrinsic cues, etc. A second stream of research has focused on exploring the potential roles of ethnic food as a source of either cultural bridge or barrier in a multicultural world. This SLR has identified the cultural bridging aspect of ethnic foods as a major research gap in this area and invites subscription from future researchers, not only in marketing but also in other related disciplines.</p></div><div><h3>Research limitations/implications</h3><p>The major limitation is that this SLR included only qualitative studies. This work would have implications for marketers of ethnic foods in multicultural countries as they can attract people from various ethnic groups considering it as a cultural bridging tool.</p></div><div><h3>Originality/value</h3><p>This is the first-ever systematic literature review conducted on ethnic foods from the perspective of its importance for multicultural societies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102011"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141593633","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}
{"title":"Intercultural relations among Filipino immigrants living in Macau","authors":"Long Sui","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As society becomes increasingly diverse over time, the interaction among different cultural groups is an essential topic in intercultural research. Berry (2017) proposed three hypotheses of intercultural relations: multiculturalism, contact, and integration, in trying to answer the question, “How shall we all live together?”. Since most studies on intercultural relations are conducted in the context of Western culture, less empirical evidence about the three hypotheses examination is drawn from the plural societies other than Western ones. Therefore, this study evaluates three hypotheses on intercultural relations with regards to Filipino immigrants in Macau, and expects to provide new empirical research support for testing relevant hypotheses on intercultural relations and enrich the existing literature. A total of 233 community samples (58.5 % females; <em>M</em> <sub>age</sub>= 28.24) were recruited and employed scales from the MIRIPS questionnaire to collect data on co-ethnic contact, host contact, perceived discrimination, acculturation strategies, self-esteem, and life satisfaction. Path analysis revealed that: (1) With respect to the multicultural hypothesis, perceived discrimination was positively related with integration and separation; (2) With respect to the contact hypothesis, co-ethnic contact was positively related with perceived discrimination; co-ethnic contact was positively related with integration and separation, and host contact was positively related with assimilation; (3) With respect to the integration hypothesis, integration was the most preferred strategy for the participants and was associated with better psychological adaptation (termed self-esteem and life satisfaction). These findings partially support the validity of the hypotheses. Finally, future research directions and empirical implications are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102015"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141593302","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}
{"title":"International students’ acculturation in host countries: A typology of intergroup and intragroup contact","authors":"Nadeera Ranabahu , Saliya De Silva","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>International students conduct academic, economic, social, and cultural activities and interact with host communities within and beyond university settings. We explore how these activities shape the acculturation outcomes of Sri Lankan postgraduate students in Japan. We employed intergroup (and intragroup) contact and acculturation theories as our theoretical foundation. Using open-ended semi-structured questions, we interviewed 20 students and analysed interview transcripts using thematic coding techniques. Our findings indicate that different types of intergroup and intragroup activities result in different acculturation outcomes. Regular and formal intergroup activities between Sri Lankan students and the Japanese host community result in cultural co-existence, while irregular and formal intergroup activities result in enculturation. Similarly, regular and informal intergroup activities result in integration, while irregular and informal intergroup activities result in socialisation. The formal and informal intragroup activities between the Sri Lankan students and Sri Lankan immigrants in Japan facilitate their socialisation to the host culture and their resocialisation to ethnic and academic cultures in the host community. These activities contribute to ethnic and cultural maintenance. Synthesising these findings, we contribute by developing a typology of intergroup and intragroup contact for international students’ host country acculturation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 102012"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147176724000816/pdfft?md5=ed1cfa6ea5ef81be8801fccf464c612a&pid=1-s2.0-S0147176724000816-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141543002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pilgrimization of the return and re-acculturation of the returnee: A study of homecoming among Kashmiri Pandits","authors":"Zarnain Manzoor","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Return migration is a complex phenomenon of reassessment of one’s place in a supposedly familiar environment that migrants stand removed from often for extended periods of time. The process possibly runs deeper than the physical act of relocation either facilitated though institutionalized schemes or done at an individual level. Post return ‘re-acculturation’ into the host society and a subsequent ‘reacceptance’ by the host community are imperative for the return to take roots. Through an ethnographic study carried out in Kashmiri Valley, Jammu city and Delhi, I explore the particular case of ‘homecoming’ of (a section of) Kashmiri Pandit migrants who have returned to their ‘homeland’ after a claimed ‘exile’ of thirty plus years, following their conflict induced mass migration from Kashmir Valley in 1989 to 1990. The returnee expectations are heavily influenced by the celebratory connotations of a destined and permanent homecoming that have long been a part of the community discourse especially to foster a sense of identity and meaning in the dispersed community. It is challenged by the process of negotiation and adaptation that many migrants, especially the younger generations are faced with on return to their homeland. It often stands in contrast to the one they imagined based on vicarious narrations that tend to romanticize return as a pilgrimage to an unchanged, unaltered ‘center’ or a home immune to temporal dilutions. In doing so, the paper engages with the lacunas in the under- researched field of return migration, that tends to harbor on what counts as a permanent return.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102010"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141480298","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}
{"title":"The longitudinal impact of cultural values on adaptation among ethnic minority students in Mainland China: The mediating role of emotion regulation","authors":"Boqiang Zhao, Ping Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Studies have shown that individual-level collectivism or individualism among ethnic minority migrant students hinders or facilitates their adaptation to Western societies. However, it remains unclear whether these effects apply to Chinese ethnic minority students’ adaptation to nation-dominated regions in China. Additionally, most studies examining the influence of cultural values on the adaptation of minority students have mostly employed cross-sectional designs, and there has been a lack of investigation into the mediating mechanisms of this influence. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the longitudinal impact of individual-level collectivism and individualism on Chinese ethnic minority students’ adaptation and the mediating role of emotion regulation. Data on individualism, collectivism, school adaptation, depression, and anxiety were collected from 447 first-year minority high school students who migrated from Xinjiang to Hangzhou at two-time points (T1: September 2022; T2: March 2023). The results revealed that individual-level collectivism positively predicted school adaptation and negatively predicted depressive symptoms six months later, whereas individualism negatively predicted school adaptation and positively predicted anxiety symptoms after six months. Furthermore, cognitive reappraisal mediated the impact of collectivism on adaptation, whereas expressive suppression mediated the impact of individualism on adaptation. The results demonstrated that collectivism encourages Chinese ethnic minority students to employ cognitive reappraisal, thereby facilitating adaptation, whereas individualism encourages them to employ expressive suppression, which hinders adaptation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102014"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014717672400083X/pdfft?md5=35788b18b5fe80016f44865baed0835c&pid=1-s2.0-S014717672400083X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141480257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statistical positivism, psychoanalysis, and the theory of sociocultural models: A review of three approaches to acculturation","authors":"Valery Chirkov","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This review examines some of the contentious issues of acculturation psychology: Its <em>acultural</em> status, lack of advances in understanding the mechanisms of acculturation, and limited ability to help immigrants adapt. After introducing the problem of acculturation, the author analyzes quantitative acculturation studies rooted in statistical positivism along with migration and the intercultural psychoanalytic approach. The paper considers the philosophical bases of these studies and reflects on their strengths and weaknesses. Subsequently, the author introduces the theory of sociocultural models (TSCM) and highlights why it is a viable option for acculturation studies. The paradigm of critical realism is emphasized, and its role in understanding acculturation mechanisms is discussed. The advantages and points of improvement of the TSCM are highlighted.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102009"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141480300","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}
Diala R. Hawi , Kumar Yogeeswaran , Elena Zubielevitch , Petar Milojev , Danny Osborne , Chris G. Sibley
{"title":"Changes in national identity across adulthood: A longitudinal analysis of cohort differences in Nationalism and Patriotism","authors":"Diala R. Hawi , Kumar Yogeeswaran , Elena Zubielevitch , Petar Milojev , Danny Osborne , Chris G. Sibley","doi":"10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nationalism and patriotism are two interrelated, but separate, forms of national attachment that fulfill diverse psychological needs and are associated with distinct political and societal outcomes, particularly amid increasing immigration and diversity. However, little is known about how these two forms of national attachment change over time and/or throughout adulthood. The present study addresses this oversight by using cohort-sequential latent growth models across 13 annual waves of longitudinal data from a national sample of adults born in New Zealand (<em>N</em> = 50,305–50,408) to investigate changes in nationalism and patriotism across different birth cohorts. Results reveal that nationalism remained relatively unchanged until middle adulthood, after which it slightly increased. Conversely, patriotism appeared to increase weakly, albeit gradually, across the lifespan. Some evidence of cohort and period effects also emerged, pointing to subtle increases in patriotism and decreases in nationalism among the New Zealand population. These results are the first to demonstrate changes in nationalism and patriotism over an extended timeframe and across cohorts in a national sample<strong>.</strong></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48216,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Intercultural Relations","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102007"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141480301","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}