Akulturacja studentów międzynarodowych w trakcie pandemii COVID-19

Abstract

: This article presents the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the acculturation process and acculturation strategies of international students in the UE, USA and Australia. The pandemic has exacerbated difficult and risky aspects of acculturating students and accelerated their acculturation. Epidemic isolation and the information chaos caused by the pandemic make it difficult for students to move from the culture shock phase to the recovery/adaptation phase. Those who were approaching the stage of adaptation prior to the pandemic were stopped and had to adopt the strategy of forced separation. Students choose, or are forced by the pandemic, to take acculturation strategies that do not involve building rela-tionships with the host society: separation and marginalization. Integration, on the other hand, occurs only in the context of integrating with other international students living in the same place. At the same time students express concerns about whether the pandemic and its effects will enable them their further integration.