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In 2017, 260 million people have been living as foreign-born immigrants worldwide. Together with people who moved within their own nation, every seventh person changed the place of residence and therefore is a national or international migrant (United Nations, International Migration Report 2018). In the age of “super-diversity” (Titzmann & Jugert, 2019; Vertovec, 2007) characterized by highly diversified migration flows, receiving societies get more and more culturally heterogeneous. Immigrants are not a monolithic group, because they differ in many aspects, e.g., their legal status, country of origin, or length of stay. Adding to this complexity, receiving societies also differ in terms of their policies and ideologies regarding “integration”, how experienced, willing, and ready they are to integrate immigrants. To capture this heterogeneity, contextualized studies as in this book are needed to better understand pre-conditions, processes, and outcomes of adaptation of different groups of immigrants living in increasingly “super-diverse” societies.
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Güngör, D., Strohmeier, D. (2020). Contextualizing Immigrant and Refugee Resilience: Cultural and Acculturative Perspectives. In: Güngör, D., Strohmeier, D. (eds) Contextualizing Immigrant and Refugee Resilience. Advances in Immigrant Family Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42303-2_1
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