Publications

Publication details [#53552]

Liu, James H., Philippa Collie, Astrid Podsiadlowski and Sara Kindon. 2010. Mindful identity negotiations: The acculturation of young Assyrian women in New Zealand. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 34 (3) : 208–220.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | gender | identity negotiation | immigrant | intercultural communication

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines how young Assyrian immigrant women in New Zealand manage and negotiate complex identity dilemmas in everyday situations, in a way that intercultural communication theorists refer to as ‘mindful identity negotiation’ (Ting-Toomey, 2005).