Intraregional migration in Latin America :'' psychological perspectives on acculturation and intergroup relations / ISBN: 9781433833809 Platform/Publisher: PsycBOOKS / American Psychological Association, Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapter; Download: Chapter Subjects: Immigrants; Immigrants; Immigrants; Emigration and Immigration.; Emigrants and Immigrants;
This book addresses the psychosocial causes, consequences, and underpinnings of intraregional migration in Latin America.
War, political instability, and disparities in wealth and opportunity have long driven migration within Latin America, and this process shows no sign of slowing. In this book, cross-cultural and social psychologists address the urgent issues that face migrants throughout Central and South America. This includes overt prejudice and discrimination, particularly toward immigrants of indigenous or African-American origin; microaggressions; the tendency to positively value fair skin and European surnames; as well as political questions regarding the nature of citizenship and nationhood and links between legacies of colonialism and slavery and present-day inequality.
Contributors offer conceptual, theoretical, and methodological tools for understanding the psychological processes that underlie migration and intergroup contact. Chapters focus on migration between and within countries in Central and South America, including Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil.
Vanessa Smith-Castro earned her PhD in Social Psychology from Philipps-UniversitAEt Marburg (Germany). She is full professor at the Institute for Psychological Research of the University of Costa Rica. Her research interests are social cognition , intergroup relations, acculturation, and the social psychology of health.
David SirlopU is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Psychology at Universidad del Desarollo (ConcepciOn, Chile). His research interests are intergroup relations and acculturation processes of Latina America immigrants and majority society. He also conducts research involving respect as recognition in minority groups, and subjective well-being in children and adolescents.
Anja Eller (1974-2019) was professor of Social Psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She was broadly interested intergroup relations, intergroup contact, identity and categorization, and embarrassment.
HUEseyin Cakal holds an MSc in Sociology from the University of Manchester and a DPhil in Social Psychology from the University of Oxford. He is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Keele. His research investigates intergroup contact, social identity processes, collective action, and mental health among severely disadvantaged communities.
