Migration is one of the most intensively discussed topics in almost every media in Europe today yet the phenomenon is not a new one. This book provides researchers, students, and other interested readers with a timely and multidisciplinary perspective to the research on immigration and intercultural encounters. The volume aims at enriching the understanding of these phenomena in three different ways. For first, it seeks for a better conceptualization of identity, intergroup relations, and acculturation as dynamic and contextual processes. The second goal is to present different methodological solutions for capturing these processes. Finally, ways to promote positive intergroup relations in society are discussed.

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Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti & Tuuli Anna Mähönen  (eds.)
Identities, Intergroup Relations and Acculturation. The Cornerstones od Intercultural Encounters
Gaudeamus 2009 • 978-952-495-117-3 • KL: 30.13, K • UDK: 316.6 • Nid., B5, 240 s. • Suositushinta 31 €.
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– Contents

Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti & Tuuli Anna Mähönen: Editors’ introduction
Karmela Liebkind : Introductory chapter: Ethnic identity and acculturation

PART I – IDENTITIES

Maykel Verkuyten: Studying ethnic identity
Sirkku Varjonen, Linda Arnold & Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti:  ”There is a difference” – A discourse analytic study on the social construction of Finnishness and Finnish identity
Gabriel Horenczyk: Multiple reference groups: towards the mapping of immigrants’ complex social worlds
Xenia Chryssochoou: Identity projects in multicultural nation-states
Tom Moring & Charles Husband: Ethnolinguistic vitality, the media and language retention in multiethnic societies

PART II – INTERGROUP RELATIONS

Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti & Tuuli Anna Mähönen: Intergroup attitudes among majority and minority groups
Jorge Sinisterra, Eerika Finell & Daniel Geschke : I can feel we don’t like them: on the emotional nature of prejudice
Klaus Helkama: Ingroup and outgroup in morality and moral development
Inari Sakki & Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman : Social representations and intergroup relations: An indispensable alliance

PART III – ACCULTURATION AND IMMIGRANT ADAPTATION

Fons J. R. Van de Vijver : The role of ethnic hierarchies in acculturation and intergroup relations
Mitch van Geel & Paul Vedder : Perceived discrimination and psychological adjustment of immigrants: A review of research
David L. Sam & John W. Berry : Adaptation of young immigrants: The double jeopardy of acculturationRauni Myllyniemi & Raul Kassea : Significance of the ingroup and the collectivistic value-orientation
Simo Mannila: Finnish immigration policy in change

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