Re-Envisioning Immigrant Integration: Toward Multidirectional Conceptual Flows

Summary, in English

This special issue collects articles, which aim to re-envision integration, dislodging the previously monodirectional conceptual flow sourced in the Global North. Jointly, the articles pursue a critical scholarship contributing to multicentric knowledge production, disrupting binaries of integrated/nonintegrated, inclusion/exclusion, citizen/non-citizen, or indeed self/other. They evidence ambivalent subject positions, neither fully-included nor fully-excluded, and engender forms of belonging to the places immigrants are momentarily located in, albeit without a steadfast position granting them rights. The collected articles also emphasize the various scales of integration, be it wider global or regional flows, as well as more localized, zoomed-in, and ephemeral manners of integration.

• Author: Dalia Abdelhady; Ov Cristian Norocel
• Department/s: Sociology; MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World; LU Profile Area: Human rights; Department of Gender Studies
• Publishing year: 2023
• Language: English
• Pages: 119-131
• Publication/Series: Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2023.2168097
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Routledge
• Topic: International Migration and Ethnic Relations; Gender Studies; Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
• Keywords: critical knowledge; conceptual flows; Global North; Global South; immigrant integration
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1556-2948