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Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference

Experiences of Culture Contact

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Authors:
  1. Elke Murdock

    1. University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

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  • Uniquely considers the positive impacts of culture contact
  • Provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on multiculturalism
  • Combines theory and empirical research

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Elke Murdock
    Pages 1-11

  3. Luxembourg—In a Multicultural Context

    • Elke Murdock
    Pages 13-63

  4. Multiculturalism in Context

    • Elke Murdock
    Pages 65-135

  5. The Individual in a Multicultural Context

    • Elke Murdock
    Pages 137-187

  6. On Being Bicultural in a Multicultural Environment

    • Elke Murdock
    Pages 189-246

  7. On Living in a Multicultural Environment

    • Elke Murdock
    Pages 247-316

  8. Final Conclusions

    • Elke Murdock
    Pages 317-336

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 337-345
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About this book

Multicultural societies are a phenomenon that can be increasingly observed worldwide. This book focuses on the question of how individuals living within a multicultural society experience the meeting of cultures. Murdock combines both a thorough review of the theoretical body of research concerning multiculturalism and related concepts such as globalization, acculturation and biculturalism with specific empirical research evidence, providing new insights into factors which shape our openness towards a plurally composed society. Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference contains original research conducted within the ‘natural laboratory’ that multilingual, multicultural Luxembourg provides. This is a country where the foreign population makes up nearly half of the total population. In the era of globalization, culture contact is a daily occurrence and this book makes a contribution to the questions of if and how culture contact can be experienced as an opportunity rather than a threat by individuals.

 

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Elke Murdock

About the author

Elke Murdock is Research Associate at the interdisciplinary Integrative Research Unit on Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) at the University of Luxembourg. She also lectures at the International School of Management (ISM), Cologne, Germany.  Her research interests include multiculturalism, understanding of nationality, identity construal processes, acculturation, biculturalism and all facets of (cross-) cultural psychology.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference

  • Book Subtitle: Experiences of Culture Contact

  • Authors: Elke Murdock

  • Series Title: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59679-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95560-2Published: 30 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59679-6Published: 24 October 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2947-6100

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-6119

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 345

  • Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Migration, Ethnography, Cross Cultural Psychology

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