Reframing Migrant Integration Research

This timely book provides a fundamental re-evaluation of the ways in which migrant integration research is conceptualised, studied and debated, demonstrating that it must be reopened to restore pluralism, falsifiability and analytical precision.Daniel Rauhut explores dominant theories in the field, exposing unfalsifiable assumptions, ideological saturation and epistemological blind spots. Chapters present a precision-based falsifiable integration model grounded in agency, incentives and empirical diagnostics, incorporating cultural distance into analytical outcomes. Adopting a multi-level and multidisciplinary approach, the book examines why integration succeeds or fails. It draws on original conceptual tools to offer new policy designs and evaluation methods, alongside rich empirical examples which challenge deterministic narratives and demonstrate the diversity of integration trajectories.Reframing Migrant Integration Research is a valuable resource for scholars, researchers and students of migration studies, sociology, geography, political science and public administration. It will also be a useful tool for policy analysts, government officials, practitioners and those working in think tanks, NGOs and international organisations.