Interculturality, Multiculturalism, and Migration Processes of the Population

Abstract

In today’s globalized world, the topics of interculturality, multiculturalism, and population migration processes are becoming more and more relevant and topical. It may seem that modern societies are increasingly moving towards multiculturalism, which is due to a variety of migration processes caused by various factors: social, economic, political, legal, environmental, cultural, and those that are associated with a shaky sense of security and constitute an element of threat to humans as individuals (citizens) and society. Place and space are categories relevant to many scientific disciplines. They determine the patterns of cognition and understanding of the environment. Intercultural and multicultural communication is also associated with the assimilation of minorities (outsiders), rituals, stereotypes, gestures, clothing (superficiality), and symbols carrying somehow “encoded” content. The phenomena of migration and emigration can be a mirror reflecting current events taking place in the world – in individual countries, their political systems, security, politics, economy, and the functioning of society as a collective and of individuals. Nowadays, we may observe an increased interest in the topics of culturality, interculturality, multiculturalism, and, consequently, population migration. Discourse – scientific, political, legal, and media – concerning these social phenomena is evident. Integration and assimilation are cultural concepts in both interdisciplinary and scientific research and in public debates, the subject of which is the functioning of post-modern societies characterized by diversity. Interculturality and multiculturalism are identity-related, ideological, educational, and cognitive phenomena that regulate the issues of coexistence in the area of a certain territory of different cultures and social interaction, which, as a rule, are dynamic.