Publications

Publication details [#45907]

Byram, Michael, Haley De Korne and Michael Fleming. 2007. Familiarising the Stranger: Immigrant Perceptions of Cross-cultural Interaction and Bicultural Identity. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 28 (4) : 290–307.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural communication | identity negotiation | immigrant

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper examines the positive and negative experiences of cross-cultural identification among immigrant women who have lived in the UK or the USA for at least 20 years. It is argued that a focus on the benefits of bicultural identity can help improve cross-cultural communication.