Identity dynamics of immigrant trainees: Acculturative strategies and insertion into a workgroup [La dynamique identitaire de stagiaires immigrants: Stratégies d'acculturation et insertion dans un collectif de travail]

Psychologie du Travail et des Organisations
Volume 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 219-234

Identity dynamics of immigrant trainees: Acculturative strategies and insertion into a workgroup [La dynamique identitaire de stagiaires immigrants: Stratégies d'acculturation et insertion dans un collectif de travail] (Article)

Mary G. , Costalat-Founeau A.-M.

^a Université Montpellier III - Paul Valéry, Laboratoire de Psychologie Equipe EA4425, France
^b Université Montpellier III - Paul Valéry, Laboratoire de Psychologie Equipe EA4425, France

Abstract

The aim of this research was to explore reciprocal relations between acculturative strategies of immigrant trainees and their "strategies" of integration into a workgroup. The investigation of each participant's identity dynamics served as a basis to this qualitative and exploratory study, using the IMIS (multistage social identity investigator), created by Zavalloni and Louis-Guérin (1984, 2007). In both the cases presented here, work environments echoed back to some of the main obstacles opposing to the social integration of immigrants. Therefore, part of the results revealed spontaneous emergence of adaptative strategies simultaneously linking to cultures and the profession. © 2010 Association Internationale de Psychologie du Travail de Langue Française (AIPTLF).

Author Keywords

ego-ecology Identity Dynamics Building Acculturative Strategies

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84971658573&doi=10.1016%2fS1420-2530%2816%2930146-7&partnerID=40&md5=f6e3c44a6df19cb6578260631545557a

DOI: 10.1016/S1420-2530(16)30146-7

ISSN: 14202530

Cited by: 2

Original Language: French