Immigration, Acculturation and Responses to Perceived Employment Discrimination: A Study of Albanian and Bulgarian Immigrants in Greece

The process of immigration involves acculturation to changes resulting from the contact of immigrants with the host population and intergroup relations that arise from the reciprocal presentation of views held by the contact groups (Berry, 2003). In general, acculturation is based on two dimensions of change: one refers to the extent to which the culture of origin is being maintained or preferred, and the other refers to the extent to which the new host culture is adopted. On the basis of the interaction between these two dimensions, four different acculturation strategies can be employed: assimilation, integration, separation, and marginalization.