Acculturation Expectations Questionnaire Test - the question form

1. Migrants should not take part in activities of either Russian organizations or their own ethnic groups.

2. Migrants should take part only in activities that involve members of their own ethnic group.

3. Migrants should take part in activities that involve only Russians.

4. I believe it is not important for migrants either to maintain their cultural traditions or to adopt Russian ones.

5. I believe that migrants should both maintain their own cultural traditions and adopt Russian ones.

6. I believe that migrants should adopt Russian cultural traditions and not maintain their own.

7. Migrants should be friends only with Russians.

8. For migrants, it is more important to be fluent in Russian than in their native language.

9. Migrants should not be friends with people of their own nationality or with Russians.

10. Migrants should have friends only of their own nationality.

11. Migrants should take part in activities that include both Russians and members of their own ethnic group.

12. Migrants should have friends both from their own ethnic background and Russians.

13. It is better for migrants to marry only within their own ethnic group and not marry Russians.

14. I believe that migrants should work where members of their ethnic group work, rather than where Russians work.

15. Migrants here should not marry either Russians or members of their own ethnic group.

16. It is best if migrants live among Russians, follow the behavioral norms accepted in Russian culture, and at the same time maintain the behavioral norms accepted in their own culture.

17. Migrants should live here among Russians and follow the behavioral norms of Russian culture, rather than in ethnic neighborhoods.

18. It is better if migrants work here among Russians rather than among members of their own ethnic group.

19. I believe that migrants should educate their children in special national schools for migrants, rather than in schools attended by Russian children.

20. I believe that migrants here can marry either Russians or members of their own ethnic group.

21. It is better for migrants to marry Russians than to marry someone from their own ethnic group.

22. I believe that migrants here should not educate their children, either in Russian general education schools or in their own national schools.

23. It is best if migrants educate their children in mainstream schools in multicultural classrooms with both Russian children and migrant children.

24. Migrants should live in ethnic neighborhoods according to their own cultural norms of behavior, rather than among Russians.

25. I believe that migrants here should not work at all—neither with Russians nor with people from their own ethnic group.

26. I believe that migrants should not live here at all—neither in ethnic neighborhoods nor among Russians.

27. It is better when mixed work teams are formed, in which both Russians and migrants work.