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The myths of “Melting Pot” and “California Dream”: Ethnographic accounts of separation, marginalization, and intra-group conflicts among east asian international students

IF 2.4 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102148

Benjamin H. Nam , Alexander Scott English

This study investigated the underexplored aspect of acculturation in the United States, focusing on analyzing the experiences of East Asian international students in California. Through layered accounts in narrative ethnographies, the study analyzed factors influencing separation and marginalization within two distinct national groups: (a) Chinese students in Northern California and (b) Korean students in Southern California. Thus, this study captured the subjectivities of two American authors, providing a rich and thick narration of the lived experiences of East Asian international students. The findings revealed that despite participants’ positive motivations and acculturation expectations, they encountered significant separation and marginalization. Notably, intra-group conflicts within the Chinese and Korean communities emerged as critical factors that exacerbated acculturative stressors, ultimately influencing decisions to leave their host communities. The study employed concepts from Confucianism within acculturation theory to analyze the experiences of these students, offering novel theoretical insights from emic and etic perspectives.

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Types of relations between national identity and global identity and their associated factors: A scoping review

IF 2.4 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102142

Xin Li, Xiao Meng, Raquel A. Ruiz, Jun Wang, Jeffrey Liew

In an increasingly globalized world, individuals need to navigate between national and global identities. Yet, there is limited understanding of the different types of relations between these two types of identities that individuals can hold simultaneously. The present study addresses this need through a scoping review that summarizes the types of relations and associated factors, which are critical to guide research and practice in balancing national and global identities for individuals to thrive in both their nations and globalized societies. The present scoping review included 45 eligible empirical studies and identified 10 distinct types of relations between national and global identities. The associations between nations/regions, participants’ developmental periods and genders, perturbation factors (changes in participants’ contexts), and types of relations were summarized. Explanations for the types of relations in the reviewed studies were also summarized. In most regions of the world, participants’ national and global identities were negatively associated with each other, with national identity is prioritized. Adolescents and emerging adults tended to prioritize national identity, whereas adults’ national and global identities tended to increase or decrease simultaneously. Females were more likely to exhibit a balanced emphasis of both identities than males. Perturbation factors at the individual, country, between-country, and global levels each related to the types of relations in distinct ways. These factors also overlapped with rationales provided in the reviewed studies. Suggestions for future researchers and practitioners were offered to address gaps identified in the reviewed studies.

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Parasocial but meaningful: Exposure to foreign culture encourages pro-outsider attitudes

IF 2.4 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102147

Gong Chen

This article attempts to investigate how exposure to foreign culture affects individual attitudes toward foreign nations. According to parasocial contact theory, indirect contact with outgroup members on screen reduces outgroup prejudice. Applying it to cultural exposure in interstate relations, I argue that the consumption of foreign-made cultural products (TV programs, movies, animation, etc.) plays a significant role in ameliorating outgroup attitudes. Specifically, exposure to foreign culture strengthens individual-based parasocial relationships with outgroup media characters while deemphasizing group-based categorical differences, which contributes to positive attitudes toward the contacted foreign country. Moreover, mediated cultural exposure, similar to face-to-face intergroup contact, has a secondary transfer effect. Greater exposure makes ingroup members hold favorable opinions of multiple secondary foreign countries and, more broadly, of immigration and globalization. Generalized perceptions of outgroup threats are expected to be a mediator that partially explains the effect transferability of cultural exposure. Analyses of the AsiaBarometer Survey (Study 1) and the East Asian Social Survey (Study 2) lend empirical support to the above arguments. Using cable TV ownership as an instrument, the basic findings are robust to a set of sensitivity tests.

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COVID-19 fear and ethnocentrism in the global south: A cross-cultural analysis

IF 2.4 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102146

Stephen M. Croucher , Doug Ashwell , Mohan Dutta , Jo Cullinane , Shawn Condon , Anthony Spencer

This study explored the extent to which fear of COVID-19 was related to ethnocentrism in 10 Global South nations: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, and Singapore. Based on a representative sample of 2963 participants, results revealed ethnocentrism and fear of COVID-19 are positively correlated. In addition, there was a significant difference in ethnocentrism and fear of COVID-19 based on nation and sex. Theoretical implications and future research are discussed, with an emphasis on how the presence of a contagion, a virus, influences intercultural and intergroup dynamics, prejudice, and ethnocentrism.

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Meta-autoethnography as a co-constructive descriptive and narrative methodology: Post-pandemic responses to new research agendas in intercultural relations

IF 2.4 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102144

Benjamin H. Nam , Qiong Bai , Alexander Scott English , Steve J. Kulich

This paper presents a meta-autoethnography utilizing a co-constructive lens for mixed-method descriptive and narrative analyses to explore post-pandemic responses and new emerging research trends in intercultural relations. Four co-authors combined their research output related to the COVID-19 pandemic, which entails descriptive analyses of the selected 20 quantitative and 20 qualitative publications. The descriptive results summarized primary contexts, processes, and findings. In turn, the co-authors captured their subjectivities, co-constructively undertaking historical, social network, and autobiographical projects. They reflected on each one’s historical, comparative, and critical sensitivities to propose new research agendas in intercultural relations. The co-authors considered theoretical insights from C. Wright Mills’ “The Sociological Imagination” and his conceptualizations of liberal practicality and interdisciplinary approaches to social science research. Therefore, this paper proposes essential research agendas in the intercultural context of Sino-foreign relations and beyond through methodologically rigorous analyses of quantitative and qualitative publications and collective writings.

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Exploring the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic response on migrants’ transnational contact behavior and psychological health: A typological approach

IF 2.4 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102145

Ágnes Szabó, Vy Trần

The research aimed to explore the continuing impact of the COVID-19 response on migrants’ transnational contact behaviors in Aotearoa New Zealand three years after the start of the pandemic. With this aim, we investigated patterns of change in in-person visits, calls and online communication with transnational family and friends since COVID-19. We examined the sociodemographic predictors of different transnational contact configurations and their associations with psychological health. Cross-sectional data from 492 migrants were analyzed using latent class analysis, resulting in five contact configurations: Class 1 ‘Increased family contact’ (8.9 %), Class 2 ‘Contact unchanged’ (53.6 %), Class 3 ‘Decreased in-person visits’ (19.1 %), Class 4 ‘Increased technology-mediated contact’ (13.6 %), and Class 5 ‘Decreased all forms of contact’ (4.6 %). Migrants in groups characterized by decreased contact (Classes 3 and 5) reported significantly higher levels of loneliness and depression symptoms, whereas those in groups characterized by increased contact (Classes 1 and 4) reported better wellbeing. The COVID-19 pandemic response continues to shape the ways in which migrants maintain transnational relationships with friends and family, and it has significant implications for health and wellbeing.

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Ethnic diversity and intergroup relations among Nigerian adolescents: Testing intergroup contact and political deliberation theories

IF 2.4 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102149

Leila Demarest , Arnim Langer

In this study we investigate how local exposure to ethnic diversity is associated with intergroup attitudes and trust among adolescents in Lagos state, Nigeria, a context characterized by political tensions between ethnic groups. Drawing on an original large-scale survey (N = 3118) among final year secondary school students we find that exposure to diversity as such is not associated with stereotyping, but it is positively associated with reduced social distance. Diversity is, however, negatively associated with outgroup trust, ingroup trust, and generalized trust. In line with intergroup contact theory, cross-group friendships are associated with less stereotyping and social distance, and higher outgroup trust. Cross-group friendship also attenuates the negative relation between diversity and generalized trust. In line with political deliberation theory, diversity combined with exposure to political conversations is associated with more positive intergroup attitudes. Political exposure also weakens the negative relation between diversity and generalized trust. Our study contributes to the literature on diversity and its consequences by testing theories from different disciplinary angles (social psychology as well as political science) on multiple attitudinal variables for a unique youth sample in an understudied Sub-Saharan African setting. Our findings support the use of contact and deliberation as policy intervention tools aimed at improving intergroup relations in challenging multi-ethnic environments where diversity has often been associated with negative consequences including violence.

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Intercultural learning and adolescents’ global competence: The mediating effect of self-efficacy

IF 2.4 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102143

Qinhui Huang , Alan C.K. Cheung , Jie Xu , Yuxiao Jiang

School intercultural learning plays a crucial role in fostering students’ global competence. However, the mechanism underlying the relationship remains unclear. To address this gap, this study draws upon a sample of 211,554 students from 26 economies to examine the potential mediating role of self-efficacy in the association between intercultural learning and students’ global competence. The findings reveal a significant mediating effect of self-efficacy, operating at both the individual and school levels, on the relationship between intercultural learning and students’ global competence. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that the mediating effect of individual self-efficacy remains statistically significant regardless of the perceived discriminatory school climate. In contrast, the mediating effect of aggregated self-efficacy is contingent upon the level of discriminatory school climate, significant only under the condition of low discriminatory school climate and non-significant under high discriminatory school climate. Further implications for stakeholders, limitations, and directions for future research are discussed.

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The impact of acculturation and country-of-origin image on emigrants’ purchase intention: A cross-cultural analysis

IF 2.4 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102141

Cátia Fernandes Crespo , Tatiana Velgan

The current consumer environment is becoming gradually more diverse and multi-cultural due to increasing emigration flows. To better serve and understand these segments, it is fundamental to comprehend how emigrants’ acculturation levels and ethnocentric behaviours affect consumer behaviour. Drawing on social identity theory and on mindsponge theory, this study’s key research question concerns the effects of both emigrants’ perceptions and judgements towards the home country and of emigrants’ affiliation level with host country culture on consumer behaviour. This study expands the acculturation and consumer behaviour literature by examining how emigrants’ country-of-origin image perceptions and acculturation influence consumer behaviour, assessed through brand identification, perceived quality and purchase intention, considering the moderator effect of consumer ethnocentrism. Although previous literature has explored the role of acculturation on consumer’s purchase intention, this question remains extremely complex. Previous studies suggest that a comparison between countries is helpful to get insights into the role of acculturation on emigrants’ consumer behaviour. However, most of the existing topic-related academic research only collected data from one country. Consequently, the current research focuses on the German, French, and the United Kingdom markets within a cross-cultural comparison that addresses Portuguese emigrants. An online questionnaire collected data from 2103 respondents from the three countries. The statistical analysis was performed with PLS-SEM. The results indicate that although both acculturation and the country-of-origin image affect perceived quality and brand identification, the outcomes of acculturation on consumer behaviour diverge across markets. Furthermore, our results demonstrate the influence of perceived quality and brand identification on consumer purchase intention. The moderator role of ethnocentrism on the influence of acculturation on both brand identification and perceived quality also diverges across markets. The results contribute to the increasing body of research on the effects of the country-of-origin image and acculturation among emigrants’ communities.

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Measurement invariance of the multigroup ethnic identity scale in elderly population belonging to andean indigenous peoples of northern Chile

IF 2.4 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102139

Julio Tereucan-Angulo , Miguel Galván-Cabello , Claudio Briceño-Olivera , Lorena Gallardo-Peralta , Abel Soto-Higuera

The present study evaluated the factor structure and measurement invariance of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measurement (MEIM) scale in the older adult population of the Indigenous Andean peoples of Chile. The sample size was of 978 participants with an average age of 71.14 years. The confirmatory factor analysis technique was used to evaluate the two-factor structure, exploration and affirmation, proposed by previous studies. To this evaluation was added the analysis of invariance, restricting criteria for the five Indigenous Andean people according to the configural, metric and partial scalar level. The results of the study showed these three levels of invariance, which implies that the MEIM provides comparable results among the peoples evaluated. This is relevant because it confirms the evidence of the MEIM as a measurement instrument for ethnic identity, in this case in elderly population, which also allows comparing the construct among the Indigenous Andean peoples of northern Chile.

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