A Question of Balance: Exploring the Acculturation, Integration and Adaptation of Muslim Immigrant Youth
A Question of Balance: Exploring the Acculturation, Integration and Adaptation of Muslim Immigrant Youth
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平衡问题：探索穆斯林移民青年的文化适应、融合和适应
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2011
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C. Ward
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Jaimee Stuart;C. Ward
摘要本文通过采用混合方法（开放式调查问卷、访谈、焦点小组和投射技术）研究新西兰穆斯林青年的文化适应经历，阐述了对当代文化适应研究的批评。该研究探讨：1）成功的意义、定义和成就; 2）协商多重社会身份的过程; 3）身份的图形表示。专题分析表明，年轻的穆斯林渴望在个人、社会、物质和宗教领域取得成功，他们寻求平衡来自家庭、朋友、穆斯林社区和更广泛社会的潜在竞争需求。同时，他们渴望平衡多重身份，在自我定义中保留宗教和文化元素，同时努力融入更广泛的社会。实现这一平衡的过程有三种策略：交替取向、融合取向和最小化差异。研究结果进行了讨论，以促进我们的理解，融合作为一种文化适应的选择，并考虑以社区为基础的政策对多元文化社会的影响。
Abstract The paper addresses criticisms of contemporary acculturation research by adopting a mixed method approach (open-ended survey responses, interviews, focus groups and projective techniques) to the study of the acculturation experiences of Muslim youth in New Zealand. The research explores: 1) the meaning, definition and achievement of success; 2) the process of negotiating multiple social identities; and 3) the graphic representation of identity. Thematic analysis indicated that young Muslims aspire to achieve success in personal, social, material and religious domains and that they seek to balance potentially competing demands from family, friends, the Muslim community and the wider society. At the same time they aspire to balance multiple identities, retaining religious and cultural elements in the definition of self while endeavoring to integrate into the wider society. The process of achieving this balance is characterized by three strategies: alternating orientations, blending orientations and minimizing differences. The findings are discussed in relation to advancing our understanding of integration as an acculturation option, and the community-based policy implications for multicultural societies are considered.