Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference: Experiences of Culture Contact

Multicultural societies are a
phenomenon that can be increasingly observed worldwide. This book focuses on the
question of how individuals living within a multicultural society experience
the meeting of cultures. Murdock combines both a thorough review of the
theoretical body of research concerning multiculturalism and related concepts
such as globalization, acculturation and biculturalism with specific
empirical research evidence, providing new insights into factors which shape
our openness towards a plurally composed society. Multiculturalism,
Identity and Difference contains original research conducted within the
“natural laboratory’ that multilingual, multicultural Luxembourg provides.
This is a country where the foreign population makes up nearly half of the
total population. In the era of globalization, culture contact is a daily
occurrence and this book makes a contribution to the questions of if and how
culture contact can be experienced as an opportunity rather than a threat by
individuals.