ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the implications of this research, suggesting future directions. Traditional practices still struggle to integrate the variety of methodologies and knowledge in affiliated disciplines. This book encourages the development of a multi-focused rationale with a coherent design in the hope of fostering collaborations between researchers, social workers, professionals, and policy-makers from different backgrounds. In creating an overall picture of migrants’ identity practices, acculturation and multilingualism emerge as dynamic multidimensional phenomena, where personality determines the orientation of individuals’ linguistic and cultural engagement across the heritage and host dimensions. As such, personality also undergoes a process of change, initiated by socio-linguistic and socio-cultural practices. The adoption of an innovative approach, which includes the heritage domain in the analysis, fostered a thorough understanding of migrants’ experience. The most crucial implication of this research is that an increased level of multilingualism and multiculturalism, if supported by education, could lay the foundation for a society which is more open to innovation, change, and respect for diverse values and beliefs. All these aspects are essential to the dismantling of patterns of prejudice and discrimination, encouraging progress, social equality, economic growth, political stability, and psychological well-being.
