ABSTRACT
The refugees highlight the imagined power of geographical space via territorial boundaries of sovereign states and of moral space constituted by the ethical border of identity. Involving Afghan ‘refugees’ in India in research similar to the aforementioned authors would be a good way to continue to flesh out the relationships among acculturation attitudes and consequences. This chapter focuses on the considerations concerning the relations between acculturation and identity and in the process of doing so, relevant selected literature will be utilized to discuss the theoretical framework premised on selected discourses on these concepts. J. S. Phinney argued that ethnic identity commitment derives from the concept for ego identity commitment, but carries a more specific meaning. Identity development can be seen as a collaborative project between an individual’s social and cultural context. J. W. Berry developed a model of acculturation in which receiving culture acquisition and heritage culture retention are cast as independent dimensions.
