SOCIALLY-PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION OF FORCED MIGRANTS: APPROACHES AND QUESTIONS IN STUDYING ACCULTURATION PHENOMENON
Keywords:
inner displaced persons, forced migrants, social-psychological adaptation, socio-cultural adaptation, acculturation, inculturationAbstract
The article considers the peculiarities and factors of socially-psychological adaptation of forced migrants to the conditions of host community with the aim to include them into social connections system. Socially-psychological adaptation is defined as the constant process of person’s adjustment to existing social relationships, norms, samples and traditions of the society, where the person lives and acts. The process of person’s entry to another socio-cultural environment is viewed as the process of acculturation. It is stated that there exist three approaches to its analysis: taking into account stress and its overcoming, from the point of view of cultural learning, from the point of view of social identification. The notion of “acculturation stress” is studied out.
