Perceptions of social strategies in intercultural relations: The case of Ethiopian immigrants in Israel |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel;2. Faculty of Education, Levinsky College of Education, Israel;3. School of Education and the Melton Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel;1. Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Universitario Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain;2. Ciber Enfermedades Respiratorias (CibeRes), Spain;3. Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;4. Servicio de Neumología, Hospital del Mar, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain;1. MEi:CogSci Program, Faculty of Philosophy and Education, University of Vienna, Austria;2. Department of Applied Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia;1. Social Capital & Sustainability School of Social Sciences & Psychology, Western Sydney University, Australia;2. Adaptive Social and Economic Systems, CSIRO Land & Water, Private Bag 5, Wembley, WA 6913, Australia;1. Hasselt University, Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), Wetenschapspark 5/6, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium;1. Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, The Netherlands;2. Department of Social Science Research Methods & Department of Sociology, Radboud University, The Netherlands;3. Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;4. Communication Science, Radboud University, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Social strategies are a central component of intercultural competence, and are vital in understanding, theoretically and practically, the immigration and acculturation process. This study focused on an immigrant group experiencing identity threat, namely young Ethiopians in Israel, and examined their perceptions of social strategies in intergroup relations. Thematic analysis was performed on two types of qualitative data: (1) newspaper articles in which members of the Ethiopian community addressed aspects of their social strategies (31 reports collected from seven newspapers and magazines) and (2) data from two focus groups conducted afterwards with young adult members of the Ethiopian community (five to seven participants in each group). A major pattern emerging from the immigrants’ reports is the adoption of the hosts’ perspective and attitudes regarding the effective norms of social behavior. In their daily coping, on the other hand, the immigrant youth tended to exhibit a complex and at times ambivalent variety of behavioral patterns in their social interactions with members of the host culture. This spectrum of social strategies suggests dynamic processes of trial and error and reflects the unique complexity of intercultural competence. Findings were analyzed in terms of the immigrants’ perception of the threat to their identity and of their ways of coping with those threats. |
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| Keywords: | Social strategies Intercultural competence Identity threat Immigration Ethiopian immigrants |
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