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In host societies where ethnic boundaries are maintained and periodically reactivated through crisis events, foreign residents occupy a structurally vulnerable position that renders their perceptions of identity and settlement quality contingent on the climate for interethnic communication. Drawing on a survey of foreign residents (N = 750) in Busan, South Korea, conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines how host national network embeddedness (HNNE) shapes perceived settlement quality (PSQ) through perceived identity threat (PIT) and whether perceived interethnic acceptance (PIA) moderates this process. Integrating cross-cultural adaptation theory, social identity theory, and communication accommodation theory, a moderated mediation model (PROCESS Model 59) is proposed and tested. Results reveal that HNNE positively predicts PIT, counterintuitively, indicating that interethnic networks with Korean nationals intensified identity threat under hostile interethnic conditions during the pandemic; PIT in turn significantly diminished PSQ. PIA moderates both pathways, functioning most powerfully as a buffer against the conversion of identity threat into settlement dissatisfaction. The index of moderated mediation further suggests that PIA regulates the pathway from HNNE to PSQ via PIT, providing additional evidence of the interethnic communicative climate as a structural condition. Implications are discussed regarding ethnic identity boundaries and city-level interventions for social integration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In host societies where ethnic boundaries are maintained and periodically reactivated through crisis events, foreign residents occupy a structurally vulnerable position that renders their perceptions of identity and settlement quality contingent on the climate for interethnic communication. Drawing on a survey of foreign residents (N = 750) in Busan, South Korea, conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines how host national network embeddedness (HNNE) shapes perceived settlement quality (PSQ) through perceived identity threat (PIT) and whether perceived interethnic acceptance (PIA) moderates this process. Integrating cross-cultural adaptation theory, social identity theory, and communication accommodation theory, a moderated mediation model (PROCESS Model 59) is proposed and tested. Results reveal that HNNE positively predicts PIT, counterintuitively, indicating that interethnic networks with Korean nationals intensified identity threat under hostile interethnic conditions during the pandemic; PIT in turn significantly diminished PSQ. PIA moderates both pathways, functioning most powerfully as a buffer against the conversion of identity threat into settlement dissatisfaction. The index of moderated mediation further suggests that PIA regulates the pathway from HNNE to PSQ via PIT, providing additional evidence of the interethnic communicative climate as a structural condition. Implications are discussed regarding ethnic identity boundaries and city-level interventions for social integration.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--16-2-2026","category-2-"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiareview.snu.ac.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}