Intercultural Communication Between Migrant and Local Students in Forming Socio-Cultural Harmonization

Abstract

Communication plays an important role in integrating symbols between people and building harmonization in intercultural contact. Intercultural communication can be defined as interpersonal communication between two people of different cultural backgrounds through the exchange of messages conveyed verbally and non-verbally. The purpose of this study was to determine the intercultural communication of migrant and local students. The research method used is qualitative research with data collection methods of interviews and observations. The theory used in this research is culture shock which has four phases. The first is the optimistic phase, cultural phase, recovery phase, and adjustment phase. From the results of the research conducted, it shows that the intercultural communication of immigrant students experiences four phases of culture shock because one of them is the openness of local students with language barriers and accents that are not easily understood by immigrant students. But from this, immigrant and local students respect each other despite having different socio-cultural backgrounds in order to create socio-cultural harmony between students.