The Discursive Format of “Social Warming”

This chapter deals with human relationships that currently come up against increasingly overheated communication. Combining the perspective of social representations with that of discursive acts, Giuseppe Mininni relaunches his diatextual approach, placing social psychology at the meeting point between the epistemological axes of cultural, discursive, and critical psychology. Studies on mixed families illustrate the issue. Mixed families seem fundamentally diatextual because their texts are embedded within enunciative contexts animated by multifarious dynamics of perennial change. The author’s analysis shows that these families activate three kinds of social-epistemic rhetoric, focusing on distinction, mediation, and integration. The interplay between the Self and the Other is thus explained, acknowledging the vital impulse toward hybridization. The hyphenated identities produced in mixed families show the Self that the best way to save its own identity may be by strewing it in the Other’s, in an ongoing process of change.

INTER-CULTURAL MARITAL RELATIONSHIP: RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS FROM BANGLADESHI COMMUNITY

Inter-cultural marriage is increasingly common in many societies, yet inter-cultural relationships remain at a higher risk of failure, with higher divorce rates and lower marital satisfaction. The present study analyzed a growing phenomenon in Bangladesh and Malaysia known as intercultural or mixed families. The main objective was to explore challenge associated with inter-cultural relationships, and to determine how these relate to marital satisfaction among foreign partners in inter-cultural families. This study explores five inter-cultural married couples’ experiences using a qualitative inquiry. In this study, we demonstrated the condition of inter-cultural married couples by examining their challenges with respect to inter-cultural adjustment, religious practice, and parental commitment.

Ethnic identity and peculiarities of coping behavior of people from interethnic marriages

The article presents the results of an empirical study of self-identification, ethnic identity and peculiarities of the transformation of ethnic identity among people from inter-ethnic marriages (Russian-Tatar families). A socio-psychological analysis of the specifics of coping behavior strategies among immigrants from families of ethnically mixed families, as well as immigrants from Russian and Tatar families is given.

The implications of migration policies on migrant worker mixed families: The case of Filipinos in Israel

The ever-growing worldwide phenomenon of transnational labor migration has resulted in the increase of families formed by migrant workers in destination countries. While scholarly attention has mainly focused on the transnational families of migrant workers, the formation of mixed families involving migrants in host countries has rarely been studied. Based on a qualitative and quantitative study of the Filipino migrant worker community in Israel, this paper explores the dynamics of mixed families within this community. The family formation of Filipino migrants in Israel reveals two main categories of mixed families: one consisting of a migrant worker and a local citizen, and the other consisting of two migrant workers of different origins. I proposed the terminologies “suspect mixed families” and “fragile mixed families” to emphasize the crucial impact of migration policies on the dynamics of these families.

Vietnamese fathers, Soviet sons: the context of the interethnic family

The article examines the impact of transnational interactions on the lives and professional choices of four Russians from Vietnamese-Russian families – writers Alexey Milkov and Eldar Sattarov, musician Vyacheslav Kovalev and film director Konstantin Fham-Malkin. The author analyzes four mixed families, in which the father is an ethnic Vietnamese, and the mother is a local resident: Russian / Tatar / Jewish. It is shown how children who grew up in such interethnic families, under the influence of various factors and circumstances, form an attitude to ethnicity – their Vietnamese origin, and make career choices.

Wartime Ideology and the Integration of Korean-Japanese Mixed Families, 1930s

This chapter concentrates on colonial kinship and narratives of adoption that were intended to highlight the mixed family as a harmonious unit. It looks at Yi Kwangsu's novels Kokoro aifurete koso (When hearts truly meet) and KŬdŬl Ŭi sarang (Their love). It also shows how the wartime imperialization policy and assimilation played out in domestic everyday life through a story of Korean–Japanese family adoption. It further explains the colonial kinship discussion by analyzing the films that centers on the development of mixed families Rinjin'ai no reikyaku (Beautiful guest of neighborly love) and Ai to chikai (Love and the vow). The chapter recounts the “cultural rule” of the 1920s that brought a proliferation of print culture in Korea and ushered in a censorship-oriented state of war as the Japanese Empire reached North China in the following decade.