CTIS Research Seminar Series: How to Understand Intercultural Outcomes in Sojourner and Migrant Populations from an Interdisciplinary Perspective?
| Dates: | 30 November 2023 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Dr Joana Almeida |
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This talk addresses the theoretical foundations and practical applications to understanding intercultural outcomes in sojourner and migrant populations from an interdisciplinary perspective, i.e., against the multiple variables of interest rather than pre-set mono-disciplinary frameworks.
Building on the speaker’s 2020 book Understanding Student Mobility in Europe: An interdisciplinary approach by Routledge, and the adaptation experiences of 50 sojourners and immigrants in Portugal and the UK, this talk aims to develop a more comprehensive understanding of intercultural outcomes in different situations of cultural immersion. More specifically, 22 exchange students and nine highly skilled immigrants in Portugal, and 19 international students in the United Kingdom. Various mediating and outcome variables shaping their cultural immersion experiences will be analysed from different disciplinary and/or theoretical standpoints: from intercultural learning theories to second language acquisition, from social support theory to sociology of space and human capital theory.
By leveraging this interdisciplinary understanding, it is sought to produce an integrated account of intercultural outcomes that draws on different disciplines to better understand who, why and how people acculturate. In this way, the speaker also seeks to raise awareness of how our own conceptual and methodological positioning can influence knowledge generation about intercultural outcomes which ultimately do not fall under the realm of a single discipline.
Speaker
Dr Joana Almeida
Organisation: University of Warwick
Biography: Joana Almeida is Assistant Professor in intercultural communication at the University of Warwick. With a 15-year academic portfolio across institutions in Portugal, Spain, the UK and the USA, Joana has worked on multiple research projects on cross-cultural communication and international higher education, including: research capacity-building in Mozambican higher education (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency), internationalisation at home (Erasmus+), internationalisation of the curriculum (British Council), teacher education and intercultural competence development (European Commission Joint Research Centre).
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