Common Experiences of Crossing Cultures -- Theorizing About Cross-Cultural Adaptation -- Existing Approaches to Cross-Cultural Adaptation -- Macro-Level and Micro-Level Perspectives -- Long-Term and Short-Term Adaptation -- Adaptation as Problem and Adaptation as Learning/Growth -- Varying Theoretical Accounts and Empirical Assessments -- Divergent Value Premises: Assimilationism and Pluralism -- Toward Integration -- The Theory -- Organizing Principles -- The Domain and Boundary Conditions -- Assumptions: Strangers as Open Systems -- Mechanics of Theorizing -- Empirical Grounding -- The Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation -- Cultural Adaptation -- Cross-Cultural Adaptation -- The Stress-Adaptation-Growth Dynamic: A Process Model -- Three Facets of Intercultural Transformation -- Axioms -- The Structure of Cross-Cultural Adaptation -- Personal Communication: Host Communication Competence -- Social Communication -- Environment -- Predisposition -- Linking Dimensions and Factors: A Structural Model -- Assumptions, Axioms, and Theorems -- Elaboration of the Theory -- Personal Communication -- Host Communication Competence -- Cognitive Components -- Affective Components -- Operational Components -- Linking Cognitive, Affective, and Operational Components -- Social Communication -- Host Social Communication -- Ethnic Social Communication -- Linking Factors of Host and Ethnic Social Communication -- Environment -- Host Receptivity -- Host Conformity Pressure -- Ethnic Group Strength
Summary
This book looks at the movements of immigrants and refugees and the challenges they face as they cross cultural boundaries and strive to build a new life in an unfamiliar place. It focuses on the psychological dynamic underpinning their adaptation process; how their internal conditions change over time; the role of their ethnic and personal backgrounds and of the conditions of the host environment affecting the process
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-294) and index
