IDENTITY INTEGRITY IN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES: PSYCHOSOCIAL ADAPTATION PROCESSES OF IMMIGRANTS
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In our age of accelerating globalization, international migration movements have become one of the fundamental dynamics transforming the demographic and cultural structures of societies. This transformation highlights the psychosocial challenges and identity negotiations faced by immigrant individuals during their integration processes into new societies. This review and theoretical analysis examine, from a social psychology perspective, the efforts of immigrants to preserve and reconstruct their identity integrity in multicultural societies within the context of psychosocial adaptation processes. Individual, social, cultural, and structural factors affecting immigrants' identity development are addressed in light of fundamental theoretical approaches such as acculturation strategies (integration, assimilation, separation, marginalization), social identity theory, and self-categorization theory. The impacts of elements such as perceived discrimination, social support networks, language proficiency, and the host society's level of acceptance on both the psychological well-being and sociocultural adaptation of immigrants are discussed in depth. It is emphasized that identity integrity, particularly the development of bicultural identity, plays a central role in the psychosocial adaptation of immigrants. The analysis offers implications for policies and practices that support immigrants' adaptation processes and strengthen their identity integrity, and also points to potential directions for future research in the field.
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