Summary of PhD Research ENG (Социоэкономическая адаптация иммигрантов в контексте взаимной аккультурации иммигрантов и принимающего населения)

National Research University Higher School of EconomicsDmitry GrigoryevSocio-Economic Adaptation of Immigrants in a Perspective of Mutual Acculturationof Immigrants and Majority Group MembersPhD Dissertation Summaryfor the purpose of obtainingPhilosophy Doctor in Psychology HSEAcademic supervisor:Nadezhda LebedevaProf., Doctor of ScienceMoscow – 2018PUBLICATIONS AND APPROBATION OF RESEARCHFirst-tier publications 11.

Grigoryev, D., & Berry, J. W. (2017). Acculturation preferences, ethnic and religiousidentification and the socio-economic adaptation of Russian-speaking immigrants inBelgium. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 46(6), 537–557.doi:10.1080/17475759.2017.13861222. Grigoryev, D., & van de Vijver, F. (2017). Acculturation profiles of Russian-speakingimmigrants in Belgium and their socio-economic adaptation. Journal of Multilingualand Multicultural Development, 38(9), 797–814.doi:10.1080/01434632.2016.12681453. Grigoryev, D., & van de Vijver, F.

(2018). Acculturation expectation profiles of Russianmajority group members and their intergroup attitudes. International Journal ofIntercultural Relations, 64(3), 90–99. doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2018.03.001Second-tier publications 24. Grigoryev, D. (2015). Vzaimosvyaz' vyrazhennosti etnicheskoy identichnosti iakkul'turatsionnykh ustanovok migrantov s urovnem ikh sotsioekonomicheskoyadaptatsii [The relationship of ethnic identification and acculturation attitudes ofimmigrants with their socio-economic adaptation].

Kul'turno-istoricheskayapsikhologiya [Cultural-Historical Psychology], 11(1), 71–85.doi:10.17759/chp.2015110109 (In Russian)5. Grigoryev, D. (2016). Tsennosti, sotsial'naya distantsiya i ustanovki po otnosheniyu kmigratsii: kross-kul'turnoe issledovanie v Bel'gii, Germanii, Frantsii i Niderlandakh[Values, willingness to engage in intergroup contact, and attitudes towards1First-tier publications include papers indexed in the Web of Science (Q1 or Q2) or Scopus (Q1 or Q2) databases, as well as peerreviewed collections of conferences that appear in CORE rankings (ranks A and A*).2Second-tier publications are papers published in journals included on HSE’s list of high quality journals or indexed in the Web of Science(Q3 or Q4) or Scopus (Q3 or Q4) databases, as well as peer-reviewed collections of conferences appearing in CORE rankings (rank B).immigration: A cross-cultural study of Belgium, Germany, France, and theNetherlands].

Psikhologiya. Zhurnal Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki [Psychology. Journalof Higher School of Economics], 13(2), 273–298. (In Russian)6. Grigoryev, D. (2017). Diskriminatsiya migrantov v sotsioekonomicheskoy sfere: rol'mezhgruppovykh ustanovok prinimayushchego naseleniya [The discrimination ofimmigrants in the socioeconomic domain: the role of intergroup attitudes of themainstream population]. Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo [Social Psychologyand Society], 8(3), 63–84.

doi:10.17759/sps.2017080306 (In Russian)Other publications7. Grigoryev, D. (2015). Ethnic and religious identification, acculturation attitudes and thesocio-economic adaptation of immigrants. SSRN Electronic Journal.doi:10.2139/ssrn.26008458. Grigoryev, D. (2015). Vliyanie vyrazhennosti etnicheskoy identichnosti na vybormigrantami ikh akkul'turatsionnoy ustanovki [The effect of strong ethnicidentification on preferences of acculturation attitudes by immigrants]. IzvestiyaSaratovskogo universiteta.

Novaya seriya. Seriya: Akmeologiya obrazovaniya.Psikhologiya razvitiya [Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series:Educational Acmeology. Developmental Psychology], 4(1), 63–66. (In Russian)9. Grigoryev, D. (2015). Akkul'turatsionnye profili migrantov i uroven' ikhsotsioekonomicheskoy adaptatsii [Acculturation profiles of immigrants and theirsocio-economic adaptation]. Mir obrazovaniya – obrazovanie v mire [The world ofeducation – the education in the world], 59(3), 75–85.

(In Russian)10. Grigoryev, D. (2016). Acculturation profiles of immigrants and their level of socioeconomic adaptation. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.273972711. Grigoryev, D. (2017). Razrabotka korotkoy versii shkal iz metodiki Dzh. Dakkita:avtoritarizm pravogo tolka, orientatsiya na sotsial'noe dominirovanie, vera vopasnyy i konkurentnyy mir [Development of a short version of the dual processmodel scales: right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, dangerousand competitive worldviews]. Natsional'nyy psikhologicheskiy zhurnal [NationalPsychological Journal], 28(4), 30–44.

doi:10.11621/npj.2017.0403 (In Russian)12. Grigoryev, D. (2017). Mezhgruppovye ustanovki prinimayushchego naseleniya idiskriminatsiya migrantov v Rossii [Intergroup attitudes of the host population anddiscrimination of immigrants in Russia], in book: Mezhkul'turnye otnosheniya napostsovetskom prostranstve [Intercultural relations in post-Soviet space].Monografiya pod red. N.M. Lebedevoy [the monograph by N.M. Lebedeva (Ed.)].— M.: Izd-vo «Menedzher», pp. 82–121.

(In Russian)Reports at conferences1. V All-Russian conference with international participation "Prakticheskayaetnopsikhologiya: aktual'nye problemy i perspektivy razvitiya" [Practical ethnopsychology:actual problems and development prospects], 20-21 Nov 2015, (Moscow State Universityof Psyсhology and Education, Moscow, Russia).

Report: Teoreticheskaya model'sotsioekonomicheskoy adaptatsii migrantov: na primere russkoyazychnykh migrantov vBel'gii [A theoretical model of the socio-economic adaptation of immigrants: The case ofRussian-speaking immigrants in Belgium]. (In Russian)2. V International scientific conference "Psikhologiya individual'nosti" [Psychologyof individuality], 09-11 Dec 2015, (National Research University Higher School ofEconomics, Moscow, Russia).

Report: A theoretical model of the socio-economicadaptation of immigrants: The case of Russian-speaking immigrants in Belgium.3. III International scientific conference "Culture in society, between groups andacross generations", 30 May–01 Jun 2016, (National Research University Higher School ofEconomics, Moscow, Russia).

Report: Acculturation profiles of Russian-speakingimmigrants in Belgium and their level of socio-economic adaptation.4. IV International scientific conference "Culture in society, between groups andacross generations", 18-20 Apr 2017, (National Research University Higher School ofEconomics, Moscow, Russia).

Report: Discordance of acculturation attitudes of nativesand their support of discrimination of immigrants in Russia.RESEARCH TOPICRapidly increasing modern migration rates accompanied by a massive increase inlabor immigration. Since one of the leading reasons for immigration is the achievement ofa higher standard of living. Despite immigrants seek to improve their quality of life,actually, immigration more often relates to various problems, discrimination, and economicdifficulties (Wong, Chou, & Chow, 2012). In this regard, the problem of the socioeconomicadaptation of immigrants in a host society is always pressing.

Regrettably, as Hayfron(2006) noted, economic studies on labor market outcomes for immigrants have notexamined how the psychological problems immigrants face can impact their acculturationprocess. This absence is probably because most economists and sociologists consider thisproblem the domain of psychology; however, socioeconomic adaptation has hardly beenstudied by psychologists (see also Jasinskaja-Lahti, 2008) and most extant literature hasfocused only on assimilation as mode of acculturation (Hayfron, 2006).In my PhD research, I considered and investigated the socio-economic adaptation ofimmigrants in a perspective of mutual acculturation of immigrants and majority groupmembers.

The focus of the part of research about immigrants was on the integrationhypothesis (e.g., Berry, 1997) versus ecological acculturation framework (e.g., Salo &Birman, 2015) involving multiple indicators for the assessment of socio-economicadaptation, and also its psychological antecedent variables (see Grigoryev & Berry, 2017;Grigoryev & van de Vijver, 2017). The part of research about majority group members wasdevoted psychological antecedents of endorsement of discrimination of immigrants in thesocioeconomic domains.

The relationships between endorsement of discrimination ofimmigrants in the socioeconomic domains and acculturation expectations and otherintergroup attitudes by majority group members were considered (see Grigoryev, 2017;Grigoryev & van de Vijver, 2018). Such analysis of the socio-economic adaptation ofimmigrants on both sides (immigrants and majority group members) provides extendingour knowledge about socio-economic adjustment of immigrants and possibly interventionsto contribute.Thus, the contribution of this research to the theoretical field lies in the fact thatthese findings allow expanding our understanding of the role of psychological antecedentsin the socioeconomic adaptation of immigrants. In practical implications, that means theobtained findings can be used by government services and NGOs in organizing a set ofactivities for dealing with immigrants aimed at helping them to integrate and adapt to thehost society.CONTENTSIntroductionThe first to use the word "acculturation" was J.

W. Powell in 1880, who understoodit as the psychological changes caused by the "cross-cultural imitation", and was used inthe context of describing changes in Indian languages (Sabatier & Boutry, 2006). Althoughthe phenomenon itself, which stands for the concept of "acculturation" was discussed byPlato, in fact, for the first time the problem of understanding the consequences ofacculturation was posed by him, in the collection Laws, Book XII (Rudmin, 2003). Initially,the study of acculturation was consolidated in social anthropology (e.g., F.

U. Boas, W. H.Holmes, R. H. Lowie, etc.), and was associated with the study of the processes of culturalchange in the tribes of North American Indians, later acculturation was actively studied insociology and social psychology (Sabatier & Boutry, 2006). In 1904, G. S. Hall, the firstpresident of the American Psychological Association and Clark University (USA), wasprobably the first psychologist who began to write about acculturation; he argued that theacquisition of the first and second cultures for humans like an educational process—aperson learns culture (Rudmin, 2003). In 1918, W.

I. Thomas and F. W. Znaniecki proposedthe first psychological theory of acculturation with the help of which they studied Polishimmigrants in Chicago. Finally, the anthropologists Redfield, Linton, and Herskovits (1936)gave the most well-known definition of acculturation: “Acculturation comprehends thosephenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come intocontinuous first-hand contact, with subsequent changes in the original culture patterns ofeither or both groups” (p. 149).The modern concept of acculturation refers to changes that occur when people whohave socialized in one cultural context change it to another context, e.g., as a result ofimmigration; the concept of the psychology of acculturation and adaptation is used to referto the psychological changes that occur in people involved in the acculturation process andtheir possible consequences (Berry, 2017).