Retheorizing Adaptation:<i>Differential Adaptation</i>and Critical Intercultural Communication

Garza, Antonio Tomas De La; Ono, Kent A.

doi:10.1080/17513057.2015.1087097

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“…As such, it is no surprise that keeping international faculty at US universities also entails training US-born faculty about diversity and inclusivity (Bookman, 2020). This aligns with the critical approach to intercultural communication (De La Garza and Ono, 2015), which highlights the need for mutual understanding rather than adaptation and calls for sensitivity on both ends. In higher education settings, this would entail promoting intercultural understanding in all faculty, students, staff and administrators.…”

Section: International Faculty's Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 86%

Interculturality at a US university: International faculty’s experiences with intercultural communication

Stojanović

Robinson

2021

JME

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Purpose This paper aims to present the experiences, beliefs and perceptions of international faculty at a Research 1 institution in the Southern US regarding the perceived differences between their and their students’ and colleagues’ cultures and first languages. Design/methodology/approach Face-to-face interviews were conducted with four international faculty from Europe and Asia who held appointments at a Research 1 institution in the Southern US. The interviews focused on the participants’ communication experiences with students and colleagues from diverse cultural backgrounds. Findings The findings have implications for academic and professional development and support as they show that understanding cultural aspects of language and communication can be challenging for individuals who may not be aware of possible cultural differences. Originality/value This study is unique because it presents stories of faculty from different backgrounds, who were born on different continents and who learned English at different ages but are all working in a linguistically homogeneous context. Also, the originality of the study comes from examining the intercultural communication between the participating faculty and their students, as well as their colleagues.

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Section: International Faculty's Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 86%

Interculturality at a US university: International faculty’s experiences with intercultural communication

Stojanović

Robinson

2021

JME

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“…In this model religion is a point of support for the processes of selective acculturation [17]. Moreover, «religion plays a crucial role in the construction of identity, in the reproduction of meanings and in the formation of values» (Levitt 2003:251) [19] This function is particularly important in the alienating experience of the migrant, far from the original context in which everything was familiar, usual, ordered, predictable tackles pressing existential and identity questions. If immigration separates men from their contest of origin, religion allows their reunion, through religious services, celebrations and, anniversaries.…”

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“Doing Family” and Religious Belonging of Immigrants. Case Studies in South Italy

Ferrante

2023

Migrant Families and Religious Belonging

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This contribution is focused on the immigrant’s re-shaping identity in the integration process through the phenomena of the “doing family” and religious belonging. It provides both theoretical analysis and empirical evidence of relationships between immigrants, the role of religion as a significant dimension of contemporary family migration and integration processes. What happens when people of diverse cultures, values, religion live together? Immigrants who “arrive” continue their life in a place where they do not passively participate over time but become actors. Pressed by the hegemonic culture of the host society, immigrants do not cease to practice their religious and origin cultural expressions. They do not renounce to constitute a family in a foreign contest in which they have to adapt, assimilate lifestyles, observe local laws. Considering the impact of religion and cultural origin values on public and private expression of differences, it is important to consider their role in the integration process. These dynamics have been analyzed in a research study on immigrants’ integration process in Palermo. The analysis, focused on super-conformism and ethnic persistence of the most numerous immigrant communities in the context of analysis (Islamic Ummah and the Indian Dharma) delineated the integration declinations through syncretism and cultural contagions. Immigrants, participate in the construction of a local model of integration in which immigrants, free to express their religious and cultural differences, tend to reduce their perception of minority.

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“…For acculturation to take place, deculturation of the past first happens for the non-dominant and/or dominant groups through the partial unlearning of their respective native culture (Kim, 2008;Gudykunst & Kim, 2003). Individuals then acculturate by creating their own culture in which they live (De La Garza & Ono, 2015;Padilla, 1980;Kerckhoff, 1953) or through integration (or multiculturalism), assimilation (or melting pot), separation (or segregation) or marginalization (or exclusion), depending on whether the process takes place from the perspective of the nondominant (or dominant) group (Berry, 2009). A limitation in acculturation research is that it traditionally relies on a 'bidimensional acculturation lens' that assumes there is a dominant and non-dominant cultural group, which is increasingly not the case in 'hyper-diverse' cities, such as Montreal (Doucerain et al, 2013).…”

Section: Hybridization Of Culturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the differences: Transcultural business research in a flattening world

Cohen

Tan

2018

Journal of Business Research

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Retheorizing Adaptation:Differential Adaptationand Critical Intercultural Communication

Cited by 50 publications

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Interculturality at a US university: International faculty’s experiences with intercultural communication

Interculturality at a US university: International faculty’s experiences with intercultural communication

“Doing Family” and Religious Belonging of Immigrants. Case Studies in South Italy

Beyond the differences: Transcultural business research in a flattening world

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