A Liberation Psychology Approach to Acculturative Integration of Migrant Populations.

This paper describes an acculturative integration approach that stresses the contribution of liberation psychology. Immigrant integration is a challenge for receiving countries in the Western world due to the frequent asymmetrical and oppressive conditions suffered by newcomers in their new settleme...

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Publicado en:American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 47; no. 1/2; pp. 86 - 98
Autores principales: García-Ramírez, Manuel, de la Mata, Manuel L., Paloma, Virginia, Hernández-Plaza, Sonia
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2011
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          de la Mata, Manuel L.
          Paloma, Virginia
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          Department of Social Psychology, Universidad de Sevilla, c/ Camilo José Cela s/n., 41008, Sevilla Spain
          Department of Experimental Psychology, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla Spain
          Department of Human and Social Sciences, Universidad de Almería, Almería Spain
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        Psychology
        Immigrants
        Emigration & immigration
        Human settlements
        Western countries
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          Emigration & immigration
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        Acculturation
        Critical thinking
        Empowerment
        Integration
        Liberation psychology
        Moroccan
        Oppression
        Self-construction
        Acculturation
        Critical thinking
        Empowerment
        Integration
        Liberation psychology
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      ab: This paper describes an acculturative integration approach that stresses the contribution of liberation psychology. Immigrant integration is a challenge for receiving countries in the Western world due to the frequent asymmetrical and oppressive conditions suffered by newcomers in their new settlements. The cross-cultural perspective connects integration with psychological acculturation, emphasizing harmony between acquisitions of the new culture while maintaining cultural heritage, and creating opportunities for intergroup relationships. In turn, liberation psychology permits an understanding of the acculturative transition as an empowerment and self-construction process by which immigrants acquire a new vision of the world and of themselves, transforming both structural conditions and themselves. From this perspective we conceptualize acculturative integration as the process by which newcomers become an accepted part of the new society through a reflexive and evaluative process, changing their social references and position, rebuilding their social and personal resources, and achieving a new agency in coherence with their new challenges and goals. In this process, they acquire critical thinking about unequal conditions, gain capacities to respond to the inequalities, and take effective actions to confront them. We illustrate this process using the narratives of nine Moroccan women who are living in asymmetrical and oppressive local contexts in Andalusia, the southern-most region of Spain.
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