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Models of Acculturation Do not easily account for interaction between more than two cultures Categorises migrants into particular modes of acculturation –Loses dynamic nature of the settlement process 8 February 2016Shoba NayarTRANSCRIPT
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Navigating Cultural Spaces: Revisiting models of acculturation
BRCSS Conference 2009
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Overview of Presentation
• Setting the scene– Models of acculturation
• Overview of study• Revising models of acculturation
– Navigating Cultural Spaces• Advantages
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Models of Acculturation
• Do not easily account for interaction between more than two cultures
• Categorises migrants into particular modes of acculturation– Loses dynamic nature of the settlement process
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The Research
• The research question: “How do Indian migrant women engage in occupations when settling in New Zealand?”
• Meaning of occupation• Participants• Grounded theory methodology
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Navigating Cultural Spaces
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NAVIGATING
CULTURAL
SPACES
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The Perspectives
• Working with Indian Ways• Working with New Zealand Ways• Working with the Best of Both Worlds
• Provide a stability to the process of Navigating Cultural Spaces
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Case Study
It’s easier to mix with the Māoris and Samoans and Tongans and Cook Islands then mixing with the Kiwis and the Britishers and the white people. I think it is cultural because they have the same cultural and traditional values as we have….
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Cont…
I had some close friends, Kiwi friends, and I just came and we were not used to this thing about partners and flatting at the age of 15, 16. And I remember these Kiwi friends, ladies working with me at the supermarket saying, ‘My god, I’m just waiting for my daughter to turn 18.’ I said, ‘Why?’ ‘So she can leave and go.’ I said, ‘My god, we don’t want our daughters to leave, even after they’re married.’ (Jean)
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Key Ideas
• Cultural differences– Western/Eastern perspectives
• Ability to experience 2+ modes of acculturation
• 3+ cultures
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Case Study
It’s balancing that Indianness now, where you want to push your child and you feel that okay I don’t want my child, like no matter how balanced I try to be I’m still a mum who’ll absolutely whip my daughter if she’s going to be with a partner, who is not married to him and living with him under one roof. I mean I don’t care if any Kiwi or any Indian Kiwi or any Fijian Kiwi tells me that I’m being a conservative bitch, but I just do not believe my daughter’s body is a commodity for any guy who she perceives as fit at that point in time, to be played with. So that’s how I feel at this stage….
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Cont…
I don’t know how I’m going to feel at, when she’s 20 or 30…, but this is the way I feel, it’s the one thing that has stayed intact with me. I’ve changed everything about myself, to some extent. I’ve changed the way I dressed, I’ve changed the way I speak, my accent has changed, the words and the content of what I speak has changed, my outlook has changed, my skills have changed, everything has changed. But the core of what I am when I came here, the values that are what’s brought in the Catholic environment are still there. (Nina)
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Key Ideas
• Visibility/Invisibility– Public/Private spaces
• Time– Immediacy vs. Long Term
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Advantages of Revisiting Models of Acculturation
• Allows for the constant change and development that occurs in both people and places and associated meanings
• Prospect of reducing some of the ‘negative connotations’ or criticisms that go along with categorising migrants into one particular mode of acculturation
• Acknowledges the act of settling in a new country as an ongoing process
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Acknowledgements
• BRCSS– Doctoral Completion Award
• AUT University– Faculty of Health and Environmental
Sciences Doctoral Scholarship• Supervisors
– Associate Professors Clare Hocking and Lynne Giddings
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Contact Details
• Shoba Nayar, Doctoral CandidateDepartment of Occupational Science and TherapySchool Of Rehabilitation & Occupation StudiesFaculty of Health & Environmental ScienceAuckland University of TechnologyPrivate Bag 92006, Auckland 1020
Phone: 09 921 9999 ext. 7304
Email: [email protected]
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