The ® rst part of this paper proposes a continuum of ideological premises that seeks to account for the broad range of immigrant integration policies adopted by Western democratic states. In the second part, a review of Social Psychological models of immigrant acculturation strategies demonstrates the need to explain more clearly the interactive nature of immig rant and host community relations. The Interac tive Acculturation Mode l (IAM) presented next proposes that relational outcomes are the product of the ac culturation orientations of both the host majority and immigrant groups as in¯uenced by state integration policies. The model makes predictions regarding the acculturation combinations most likely to produce consensual, problematic, and con¯ictual relational outcomes betw een immigrants and members of the host community. Social psycholog ical research is needed to test the validity of the IAM model empirically.La premie Á re partie de cet article propose un continuum des pre  misses ide  ologiques qui animent les e  tats de  mocratiques dans la formulation de leurs politiques d' inte  g ration envers les immigrants. En deuxie Á me partie, un survol des mode Á les propose  s par la Psychologie Sociale pour de  c rire les modes d' acc ulturation des immigrants de  montre la ne  cessite  de tenir compte de l' interaction entre les aspirations culturelles des groupes d' immigrants et celles de la communaute  d' accueil. Le mode Á le d' acculturation interactif (MAI), pre  sente  en troisie Á me partie, propose que les rencontres interculturelles seront consensuelles, proble  matiques ou con¯ictuelles, selon les permutations des modes d' ac culturation des immigrants et des membres de la communaute  d' accueil. Les assises the  oriques du MAI sont a Á ve  ri® er dans des recherches empiriques a Á venir.

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