Behavioural acculturation of young Pakistani students in Hong Kong: A qualitative inquiry

Behavioural acculturation of young Pakistani students in Hong Kong: A qualitative inquiry

• Karim, Shahid The Education University of Hong Kong
• Hue, Ming Tak The Education University of Hong Kong

Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021

Routledge

2021

• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment
• N Students & Student Services
  • NO Minorities & Immigrant Students

Behavioural Acculturation Cultural Practices Culture Learning Young Pakistani Students Hong Kong

• Pakistan
• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

Acculturation is an emerging field of inquiry in the multicultural context of Hong Kong. Behavioural acculturation focuses mainly on cultural practices such as language use, dietary preferences, customs and traditions, socialization and media consumption. Despite a phenomenal growth of research on the educational predicament of immigrant youth based on a deficit-based “stress and coping” approach, there is a dearth of literature on how non-Chinese young people experience the phenomenon of intercultural learning in Hong Kong. This article reports a qualitative study on the behavioural acculturation of a group of Pakistani secondary school students in Hong Kong from a culture leaning perspective. The study findings challenge the deficit-based perspective and advocate a culture-learning approach to the study of acculturation. Copyright © 2021 National Institute of Education, Singapore.

• English

Journal Articles

• 02188791

• 10.1080/02188791.2021.1960485

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/3056531a

2021-10-07