Publications

Publication details [#65337]

Chen, Huan, Earlesha Butler and Xuan Liang. 2018. Facilitating or Impeding Acculturation: A Qualitative Study on Mobile Social Messaging in First-Generation Chinese Immigrants’ Everyday Lives. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 47 (6) : 510–529.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | communication | ethnicity | face-to-face interaction | immigrant

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This qualitative inquiry examined how Chinese immigrants employ innovative, ethnic social messaging to gather social capitals to ease their acculturation process. The ethnic social medium –WeChat-, and especially its social messaging plays a key role in molding Chinese immigrants’ acculturation experiences.