Migration and Integration: Some Psychological Perspectives on Mutual Acculturation

This issue begins with an integrative paper covering various models used to address the interactional nature of acculturation by Horenczyk, Jasinskaja-Lahti, Sam, and Vedder (2013). In this paper, the authors identify the commonalities and differences in these models and evaluate their contribution to a better understanding of intercultural relations in plural societies. This review paper also brings closer the links between fields of acculturation and social psychological research on immigrant integration. The contributors of the following five original papers empirically address the mutuality of intergroup relations in the process of immigrant integration from different angles. The guest editors hope that this issue will equally find its readership among academics as well as stakeholders and practitioners interested in and responsible for finding ways to promote harmonious intergroup relations and immigrant integration in the diverse European societies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)