ABSTRACT
The intense geographical movement of human beings due to extended tourism and migration flows in 21st-century world has created intercultural zones: places where people and groups from previously unrelated cultures come into contact (O’Sullivan-Lago & de Abreu, 2010). The experience of living in these physical zones creates psychological interculturality: the existence of multiple cultural points of view, or voices, in the self. These zones push questions of identity to the fore. As people establish new relationships and encounter a changing social world, they redefine the ways they see themselves and others (Chryssochoou, 2004). These transformations can be equally psychologically demanding for migrants and locals: vis-à-vis different social others, individuals come to question values and practices, taken for granted routines and aspects of their identity (Hermans & Kempen, 1998; Hermans & Dimaggio, 2007).
