Separation of foreign specialists of high proficiency: parameters and signs
The paper provides the part of research devoted to studying of adaptation strategies offoreign specialists of high proficiency in social and cultural environment of Saint Petersburg, in particular - analysis of parameters and signs of separational strategy. The methodological base for the present research is a model of accultural strategies by John W. Berry, who set four basic strategies of intercultural interaction: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization. The author provides data got from the survey of German expats living and working in Saint Petersburg. The paper focuses on the strategy of separation which is more interesting and disputable, according to the author ’s opinion. The special attention is paid to the analysis of exact signs, the defining of which leads to a conclusion about a migrant ’s choice of this or that strategy of adaptation (in this case - separation). These signs comprise qualitative criteria of two parameters: attachment to source culture and absence of desire to contact with receiving society. The uniqueness of this research is in lack of studies in this sphere and the author ’s desire to expose exact signs of separation for further setting of expats ’ inclination in following it.