Description
Contributing to the attempts to explore communication and adaptation, this study centers on the lived experiences of secondgeneration Turkish Americans as they navigate a space that is shared among the culture of their origins and the U.S. culture into which they are born. By extending differential adaptation theory (DAT) to the offspring of Turkish immigrants, this qualitative study illustrates how the U.S. shapes the agency these offspring immigrants have in communicating their cultural identity. Twenty-two second-generation Turkish Americans were interviewed about communication challenges from a DAT lens. Findings suggest that U.S.-born children of Turkish immigrants take on differential means of adaptation in communicating cultural identity held in their names and access to their cultural groups. The experiences of offspring immigrants demonstrate how differential adaptation contrasts with differential adaptation experiences of their immigrant parents. Finally, limitations to this study are explored and offer a call to the continuation of cultural adaptation research.
Publication Date
1-1-2024
Publisher
Review of Communication, Routledge
Keywords
Turkish; offspring immigrant; differential adaptation theory; cultural identity
Department
Communication Studies
Recommended Citation
Aksoy, Ahmet, "Adaptation of Second-Generation Turkish Americans
in the U.S.A.: Extending Differential Adaptation Theory
to the Offspring of Immigrants" (2024). Communication Studies Faculty Works. 57.
https://openriver.winona.edu/communicationstudiesfacultyworks/57
Unique Identifier
2024-Aksoy-Adaptation of Second Generation Turkish Americans in the USA
Comments
REVIEW OF COMMUNICATION 2024, VOL. 24, NO. 2, 81–96 https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2023.2288196