Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit

A Guide for Practitioners, Policymakers, and Community Builders

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

A practical guide with a fresh, bottom-up perspective on integrationThis Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit invites us to move beyond the polarised debate on integration – one that either portrays newcomers as failing to integrate or blames society as insufficiently welcoming. Using a bottom-up approach, it offers a new perspective that highlights how integration is already taking place in everyday life. The authors introduce the concept of ‘arrival infrastructuring’: the interactive process through which newcomers, together with others, actively shape and transform their arrival situations. Through stories from the ground with concise takeaways, alongside tools for reflection and action, this guide equips practitioners, policymakers and community builders with a deeper understanding of the diverse forms of arrival infrastructuring, as well as the successes and challenges of everyday integration processes. It aims to inspire future policies and practices.This book complements ‘Infrastructuring Arrival: Envisioning the Migration-Integration Nexus Beyond Crisis’, edited by Karel Arnaut, Luce Beeckmans, and Bruno Meeus (Leuven University Press, 2026).

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-18
Mått:155 x 233 x 21 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Leuven University Press
ISBN:9789462704732

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Mer om författaren

Luce Beeckmans is Research Professor in Urbanism and Migration at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, KU Leuven, and Vice-Director of the KU Leuven Urban Studies Institute (LUSI). Dounia Salamé is a social worker and PhD researcher at the Department of Architecture of KU Leuven. Martina Bovo is a post-doctoral researcher at IUAV University of Venice and a contract professor at Politecnico di Milano. She held a post-doctoral position at KU Leuven’s Department of Architecture during the making of this book. Mary Hogan is a scientific collaborator at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Department of Architecture of KU Leuven. Karel Arnaut is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven. He teaches and conducts research on migration and mobility in relation to language use, diversity and inequality. Bruno Meeus is Associate Professor at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. He teaches at the Institute for Social Work and coordinates research on housing precarity within the Centre for Social Innovation.

Recensioner i media

Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit is een hoopvol boek. De auteurs houden een pleidooi voor het erkennen van steden als dynamische laboratoria van inclusie en participatie. Het is vooral een oproep aan beleidsmakers om flexibeler en contextspecifieker te denken en handelen, minder gebonden aan nationale kaders. Beleidsmakers kunnen professionals en migranten structureel betrekken in beleidsontwikkeling en evaluatie, alleen al omdat ze experten zijn vanuit het alledaagse leven. Hun bottom-up dynamieken zijn een kernvoorwaarde voor succesvolle integratie. Het beleid stelt zich graag voor als realistisch. De antipode daarvan is “idealistisch”. De worteling in de alledaagse praktijken van ‘integratie’ toont ons waar het echte realisme zit. - Pascal Debruyne, Samenleving & Politiek, Jaargang 32, 2025, nr. 7 (september), pagina 77 tot 79, https://www.sampol.be/2025/09/integration-otherwise-inspiration-kit/

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPART I — SEEING INTEGRATION OTHERWISEIntroduction: Arrival infrastructuring 1. Resourcing 2. Bridging 3. Coming together 4. Claiming Reflection and advicePART II — DOING INTEGRATION OTHERWISEIntroduction: Taking action 1. Awareness-raising 2. Coalition-building 3. Empowering Reflection and adviceIllustration credits