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This book puts forward a new model of acculturation combining psychological, sociolinguistic and identity theories to study Turkish immigrants across the globe. The authors argue that such a multidisciplinary perspective is very important in understanding acculturation processes in migrants, particularly for pivotal aspects such as language and identity. Studying one group or several groups within a country is the most common methodological approach in acculturation studies. The authors argue on the basis of their extensive ethnographic work that focusing on one immigrant ethnic group across countries instead provides deeper insights into interactive acculturation orientations of both the receiving societies and immigrant groups. They therefore synthesize findings from their work on Turkish immigrants in Australia and several countries in Europe. Moreover, they include extensive accounts of acculturation across several generations of Turkish migrants, thereby giving readers insights into the long-term acculturation process. The book critically discusses language maintenance and shift, child-rearing practices and socialization beliefs, and educational achievement in Turkish immigrants, and uses a mixed-methods approach. It is meant for researchers and policy makers interested in acculturation and the role of the acculturation context.
In a nutshell, the book stresses the dynamic and ever-evolving nature of linguistic habits and cultural integration tendencies and convinces the reader about the complexity of the background factors that play a role in shaping the behaviour of immigrant minorities. Anyone who reads the book will be equipped with the skills to critically assess research on immigrant language maintenance.
This book puts forward a new model of acculturation combining psychological, sociolinguistic and identity theories to study Turkish immigrants across the globe. The authors argue that such a multidisciplinary perspective is very important in understanding acculturation processes in migrants, particularly for pivotal aspects such as language and identity. Studying one group or several groups within a country is the most common methodological approach in acculturation studies. The authors argue on the basis of their extensive ethnographic work that focusing on one immigrant ethnic group across countries instead provides deeper insights into interactive acculturation orientations of both the receiving societies and immigrant groups. They therefore synthesize findings from their work on Turkish immigrants in Australia and several countries in Europe. Moreover, they include extensive accounts of acculturation across several generations of Turkish migrants, thereby giving readers insights into the long-term acculturation process. The book critically discusses language maintenance and shift, child-rearing practices and socialization beliefs, and educational achievement in Turkish immigrants, and uses a mixed-methods approach. It is meant for researchers and policy makers interested in acculturation and the role of the acculturation context.
In a nutshell, the book stresses the dynamic and ever-evolving nature of linguistic habits and cultural integration tendencies and convinces the reader about the complexity of the background factors that play a role in shaping the behaviour of immigrant minorities. Anyone who reads the book will be equipped with the skills to critically assess research on immigrant language maintenance.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Overview of acculturation models: psychological perspectives on culture contact.- Chapter 3: Sociolinguistic perspectives on language and culture contact.- Chapter 4: Language maintenance and shift studies.- Chapter 5: Education from an acculturation perspective.- Chapter 6: Acculturation orientations of second and third generation immigrants in Australia and France.- Chapter 7: Discussion and conclusions.
Kutlay Yagmur is Professor of Language, Identity and Education at
the School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg
University, the Netherlands. He teaches courses on language
learning and socialization, communication studies, intercultural
communication and research methods. Yagmur has published around 200
articles in international journals and books mainly in the domain
of sociolinguistics. His principal research interests are
bilingualism, family language policy, language maintenance and
shift, language policy, language use, language education,
multilingualism, acculturation, research methodology, and testing
and evaluation. He is a well-known sociolinguist working on Turkish
immigration issues. He has coordinated a number of internationally
known projects, e.g., Multilingual Cities Project and Language Rich
Europe project, and is editorial board member of the
journals Language Culture and Curriculum (Taylor &
Francis), International Journal of the Sociology of Language
(Mouton de Gruyter), and Area Editor for Turkish of Linguistic
Minorities in Europe (Mouton de Gruyter). Yagmur is member of
the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) Veni panel to evaluate project
submissions.
Fons van de Vijver holds a chair in cross-cultural psychology at
Tilburg University, the Netherlands and an extraordinary chair at
North-West University, South Africa, and the University of
Queensland, Australia. He is also senior researcher at the Higher
School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. He has (co-)authored about
550 publications, mainly in the domain of cross-cultural
psychology. The main topics in his research involve bias and
equivalence, psychological acculturation and multiculturalism,
cognitive similarities and differences in the cognitive domain,
response styles, translations and adaptations. He has presented
keynotes and invited lectures at various conferences and workshops
in various countries, and is one of the most frequently cited
cross-cultural psychologists in Europe. He has received
grants from various Dutch institutions (such as NWO and WOTRO), the
European Union (Marie Curie), the South African Netherlands
Research Programme on Alternatives in Development, and the South
African National Research Foundation. He is member of the following
professional organizations: International Association for
Cross-Cultural Psychology, International Association of Applied
Psychology, European Association of Psychological Assessment,
International Academy for Intercultural Research, and the
International Test Commission. He is the former editor of the
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and serves on the board of
various journals; he has evaluated manuscripts for about 150
journals as ad-hoc reviewer. He has been vice-dean for research and
vice-dean for education of his faculty and vice-director of
Babylon, the interdisciplinary research center for studies of
multicultural societies at Tilburg University. He is a former
president of Division 2 (Assessment and Evaluation) of the
International Association of Applied Psychology, the European
Association of Psychological Assessment, and Past-President of the
International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. He is the
2013 recipient of the International Award of the American
Psychological Association (for contributions to international
cooperation and to the advancement of knowledge of psychology) and
the 2014 recipient of the IAAP Fellows Award (of the International
Association of Applied Psychology for contributions to applied
psychology) and the 2014 Sindbad Award of the Dutch Psychological
Association (for contributions to intercultural psychology).
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