Immigration comes with potential for increased opportunities but poses multifarious challenges to social integration. The local perception that immigration is unsustainable fuels identity threats that lead to surges in nationalism rather than multiculturalism. This paper reports three case studies of Maltese migrants to the UK. Adopting the migrants' points of view, the paper documents how acculturation takes shape in a situation where immigrants face a social reality in which their own cultural point of view is that of a stranger. This furthers the study of points of view in cultural psychology by reconciling this focus with the socio-cognitive literature on perspectives and their relative propensity to interrelate. The form acculturation takes for individual migrants is demonstrated to be associated with the perspectives immigrants demonstrate and the extent to which they interrelate with cultural diversity. © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav.

naturalizers social judgment points of view perspective-taking Intercultural contact Acculturation Sojourners Immigration

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