Relative Acculturation Extended Model (RAEM): New contributions with regard to the study of acculturation

By Marisol Navas, María del Carmen Cerón García, J. A. Sánchez, Antonio J. Rojas, Pablo Pumares, Juan Sebastián Fernández-Prados. 2005

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Abstract The worldwide volume and social relevance of migratory processes justify the need to study the psychological acculturation of the host and immigrant populations through a model adapted to the social context in which they develop. Therefore, the main objective of this article is to carry out a review of some of the existing acculturation models (e.g., Berry, Kim, Power, Young, & Bujaki. (1989). Applied Psychology, 38, 185–206; Bourhis, Moise, Perreault, & Senecal. (1997). International Journal of Psychology, 32(6), 269–386; Piontkowski, Florack, Hoelker, & Obdrzalek. (2000). International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 24, 1–26), ending up with a proposal for a Relative Acculturation Extended Model (RAEM). This theoretical framework gathers some elements from previous models and adds some new ones in order to offer new explanations for the acculturation strategies and attitudes preferred by both the native and immigrant populations. The most relevant contributions of the RAEM can be summarised as, on the one hand, the consideration of different acculturation domains (political, work, economic, family, social, religion and ways of thinking) and on the other, the differentiation between the acculturation strategies adopted in reality and the acculturation attitudes ideally preferred by the groups in contact. This model also takes into account the ethnocultural origin of immigrants and some variables predicting and modulating their acculturation strategies and attitudes.

Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Travels in hyper-diversity: Multiculturalism and the contextual assessment of acculturation (2013, background): “In their Relative Acculturation Extended Model, which is an expansion of the dominant bidimensional model, Navas and colleagues (Navas et al., 2005) stress the need to distinguish between ideal or preferred acculturation strategies and those adopted in reality.”
• Acculturation Orientations and Social Relations Between Immigrant and Host Community Members in California (2009, neutral): “…members rather than on their dual group identities or desires for intergroup contact (arends-Toth & van de Vijver, 2006, Berry, 1997; Liebkind, 2001; Navas et al., 2005; Phinney, 2003; Phinney, Horenczyk, Liebkind, & Vedder, 2001; Snauwaert, Soenens, Vanbeselaere, & Boen, 2003; van Oudenhoven,…”
• Assessment of intercultural communicative competence in FL education: A survey on EFL teachers’ perception and practice in China (2016, background): “Bennett, 1986), adaptational model (e.g. Kim, 1988; Navas et al., 2005) and causal path models (e.”
• A review of the acculturation experiences of international students (2011, methodology): “Navas et al. (2005) devised the relative acculturaion extended model (RAEM) based on Berry’s taxonomy of acculturation attitudes, the IAM, and the CMA.”
• Acculturation (2010, background): “Extending IAM and arguing that differences exist between what immigrants or acculturating groups do in terms of chosen acculturation strategies (the real plane) and the strategies they prefer (the ideal plane), Navas and her colleagues have developed the relative acculturation expanded model (RAEM; ”