Globalization and the proliferation of complex acculturation processes

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Abstract

Globalization has increased the connectivity and interaction between people from dissimilar cultural streams, proliferating complex and diverse acculturation processes among immigrants as well as non-immigrants. These acculturative processes have been influential for adolescents and emerging adults in regard to shaping their identity processes, their intergenerational relations, and their psychological well-being. Examining cultural globalization within contextual specificity discloses miscellaneous and highly complex actualizations of bicultural, tricultural, and even multicultural integration within the individual. Globalization-initiated acculturation is conceptualized as encompassing processes of cultural amalgamation negotiated both in relation to others and to societal constraints. Consequently, such processes of cultural amalgamation necessitate an agentic negotiation of cultural affiliation and selective hybridization relating to an intrapersonal, an interpersonal, and a societal level of acculturation. With globalization destabilizing the traditional cultural frames, local acculturative challenges and opportunities are created in relation to the individual’s development of a sense of self and belonging.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationYouth in superdiverse societies : growing up with globalization, diversity, and acculturation
EditorsP. F. Titzmann, P. Jugert
Number of pages18
Place of publicationAbingdon
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date2019
Pages23-40
ISBN (Print)9781138488397, 9781138488380
ISBN (Electronic)9781351040266
Publication statusPublished - 2019
SeriesStudies in adolescent development

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