In search of a cultural home: From acculturation to frame-switching and intercultural competencies

Current immigration societies consist of a growing number of culturally different immigrant groups and fading majority groups (Van Oudenhoven & Ward, 2013). The present paper states that, as a consequence of this new composition of societies, immigrants and native inhabitants will use increasingly more individualized ways of approaching members of the growing number of available different cultural groups. Specifically, there will be a shift from acculturation strategies to identity strategies such as biculturalism, and toward applying personality-based intercultural competencies.