Integration

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‘Integration’ is here studied as multi-directional processes which take place across structural, social, cultural and civic-political domains and in relation to identity and belonging; processes engaging newcomers and the individuals and institutions of the established community as well as those from transnational connections. Our work on the integration processes in which labour migrants, family migrants and irregular migrants in particular are engaged has revealed the multi-dimensional nature of the phenomenon, showing that no aspect can adequately be understood in isolation nor without recognising its spatial and temporal dimension. It has demonstrated that policy ‘effectors’ can be a facilitator of integration but also a barrier; and that qualitative methodology – exploring the everyday life of newcomers and other residents as they interact over time in real places – is a necessary complement to the contribution of quantitative indicators to an understanding of the complex processes at play.

Blog Posts

Twelve UK councils to publish Inclusive Cities Action Plans as part of Welcoming Week 2022

Denis Kierans

Are transnational marriages bad for integration?

Sarah Spencer

Social integration and cohesion in a time of social distancing

Jacqui Broadhead

How AI Is Being Used in Canada’s Immigration Decision-Making

Roxana Akhmetova

Five lessons from an urban experiment in asylum reception

Sarah Spencer

Changing roles and new opportunities for the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity

Sarah Spencer and Jacqui Broadhead

Migration, Diversity and Cities – IMISCOE 2017

Jacqui Broadhead

Permanent Residence and the power of bureaucracy

COMPAS Communications

The new lefts

Nicholas Van Hear

Belonging in the era of Brexit

COMPAS Communications

The Economic Outcomes of Refugees and Other Migrants in the UK

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Travelling home: Pleasures and phobias

COMPAS Communications

Action for Inclusion in Europe

COMPAS Communications

The politics of belonging: Transnational Korean adoptees in Denmark

Youngeun Koo

What do we know about the reasons for migration and the social and economic characteristics of migrants in the UK?

COMPAS Communications

Race and Racism

Rachel Humphris

City responses to irregular migrants

Sarah Spencer

Books

Affective Encounters: Everyday Life among Chinese Migrants in Zambia

Di Wu

School of Europeanness

Dace Dzenovska

The Migration Debate

Sarah Spencer

Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today

Ben Gidley, Keith Kahn-Harris

Reports

The Experiences of London’s Latin American Migrants during Brexit and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Domiziana Turcatti and Carlos Vargas-Silva

Inclusive Cities: Framework

Jacqui Broadhead and Denis Kierans

Learning from the Inclusive Cities programme: Phase 1

Denis Kierans

Understanding integration processes: Informing policy and practice

Dr Katharine Charsley & Dr Sarah Spencer

Inclusive Cities US Knowledge Exchange

Jacqui Broadhead

Inclusive practices for newcomers at city level and examples of innovation from overseas

Jacqui Broadhead

Cohesion and Belonging: Lessons Learned Report

COMPAS Communications

Cohesion and Belonging: Review of the Evidence

COMPAS Communications

Homelessness and Destitution amongst Excluded Migrants: Lessons Learned Report

COMPAS Communications

Marriage Migration and Integration

Katharine Charsley, Sarah Spencer, Hiranthi Jayaweera, Marta Bolognani & Evelyn Ersanilli

Background report: Migrant workers in the UK healthcare sector

COMPAS Communications

Research Report: Workplace integration of migrant health workers in the UK

COMPAS Communications

UPSTREAM: The Politics of Mainstreaming Immigrant Integration Policies. Case study of the United Kingdom

COMPAS Communications

Advancing Outcomes for All Minorities: Experiences of Mainstreaming Immigrant Integration Policy in the United Kingdom

Ben Gidley, Sundas Ali

Integration Disadvantage and Extremism

Ben Gidley and David Feldman (eds.)

The COMPAS Approach

Rob McNeil and COMPAS Communications

EUMIA: Danish Simulator: Vejle (Denmark)

COMPAS Communications

EUMIA: Democracy for Children’s Future: Visby, Gotland (Sweden)

COMPAS Communications

EUMIA: Lived Diversity: Vienna (Austria)

COMPAS Communications

EUMIA: Parents on the Spot: Hamburg (Germany)

COMPAS Communications

EUMIA: St. George’s Day Festival and Community Development in Bermondsey, London Borough of Southwark (United Kingdom)

COMPAS Communications

EUMIA: Researching Functioning Policy Practices in Local Integration in Europe: A Conceptual and Methodological Discussion Paper

Ben Gidley, Ole Jensen, Irene Ponzo, Emanuela Roman, Francesco Tarantino, Ferruccio Pastore

IMPACIM: Analysis of Existing Quantitative Data on Family Migration: United Kingdom

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: Country Case Study on the Impacts of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants: Qualitative Findings United Kingdom

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: Mapping the Conditions of Stay and the Rationale for Entitlements and Restrictions for Family Migrants in the United Kingdom

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: The Impact of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants. A Comparative Report

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: The Impact of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants. Executive Summary

COMPAS Communications

IMPACIM: The Impact of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants. National Report UK

COMPAS Communications

Residential Integration – Towards A Sending Country Perspective

Ben Gidley, Maria Luisa Caputo

AMICALL: Final Transnational Report Executive Summary

Ben Gidley, Elizabeth Collett

AMICALL: Country Report – United Kingdom

Hannah Jones

AMICALL: Country Research Report – United Kingdom

Hannah Jones

AMICALL: Final Evaluation Report

Marjorie Mayo, Alison Rooke

AMICALL: Final Transnational Report

Ben Gidley, Elizabeth Collett

Concordia Discors. Diversity, Cohesion and Change in Two South London Neighbourhoods

COMPAS Communications

Impact of Admission Criteria on the Integration of Migrants (IMPACIM). Background Paper and Project Outline

Sarah Spencer and COMPAS Communications

AMICALL: Country Context Paper – UK

COMPAS Communications

Concordia Discors. London Background Report

COMPAS Communications

An Evidence Base on Migration and Integration in London

COMPAS Communications

Diversity in the Labour Market: The Legal Framework and Support Services for Migrants entitled to work in the United Kingdom

Alison Hunter

Employment Support Services and Migrant Integration in the UK Labour Market

Richard Allen

Equality and Diversity in Jobs and Services: City Policies for Migrants in Europe

Sarah Spencer

Equality and Diversity in Jobs and Services: City Policies for Migrants in Europe. Summary

Sarah Spencer

New Complexities of Cohension in Britatin: Super-diversity, Transnationalism and Civil-Integration

COMPAS Communications

Migration and Integration: The Impact of NGOs on Future Policy Development in Ireland

Sarah Spencer

Migration and Integration: The Impact of NGOs on Future Policy Development in Ireland. Executive Summary

Sarah Spencer

Refugees and Other New Migrants: A Review of the Evidence on Successful Approaches to Integration

Sarah Spencer (ed.)

Social Integration of Migrants in Europe: A Review of the European Literature 2000-2006

Sarah Spencer, Betsy Cooper

The Contribution of the Voluntary Sector to Migrant Integration in Europe

Sarah Spencer, Sarah Cooke

Introductory Programmes and Initiatives for New Migrants in Europe

Sarah Spencer, Anna di Mattia

Journal Articles

Double lockdown: The effects of digital exclusion on undocumented immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic

Zach Bastik & Marie Mallet-Garcia

Feeling at home across time and place: A study of Ecuadorians in three European cities

Paolo Boccagni & Carlos Vargas‐Silva

Reframing ‘integration’: acknowledging and addressing five core critiques

Sarah Spencer & Katharine Charsley

Building inclusive cities: reflections from a knowledge exchange on the inclusion of newcomers by UK local authorities

Jacqui Broadhead

Innovative strategies for the reception of asylum seekers and refugees in European cities: multi-level governance, multi-sector urban networks and local engagement

Caroline Oliver, Rianne Dekker, Karin Geuijen & Jacqueline Broadhead

Conceptualising integration: a framework for empirical research, taking marriage migration as a case study

Sarah Spencer & Katharine Charsley

Working Papers

The Integration of Refugees in Romania: A Non-Preferred Choice

Raluca Bejan

Constructing statelessness: Migration, indigeneity and citizenship law in Southeast Asia

Will Jernigan

Aspirations, capabilities and (im)mobility: Integration policy and migration experiences in Germany

Timo Schmidt

Chinese Student Migration and Integration in the UK: An Exploration of Links to and Engagement with Local Communities in Nottingham

Bin Wu

The Interactions of Ethnic Minorities in Beijing

Reza Hasmath

Is Citizenship the Answer? Constructions of Belonging and Exclusion for the Stateless Rohingya of Burma

Cresa L. Pugh

Local Belonging, National Authenticity, and the Foreigner: The Encounter Between Bangladeshi and Senegalese Street Hawkers and International Holidaymakers in Rome and Naples, Italy

Phoenix Paz

Young Latin Americans in Barcelona, London, and Oxford: Building Identities in Contexts of Inequality and Discrimination

Núria Roca i Caparà

Conceptualizing the Integration of Immigrants and Other Groups

Didier Ruedin

Nepali Nurses in Great Britain: The Paradox of Professional Belonging

Sondra L. Hausner

The Importance of Peers: Assimilation Patterns among Second-Generation Turkish Immigrants in Western Europe

Syed Ali, Tineke Fokkema

Young Adults of Latin American Origin in London and Oxford: Identities, Discrimination and Social Inclusion

Núria Roca i Caparà

The Controllability of Difference: Social Solidarity and Immgrant Integration

Richard Allen

Accommodating Diversity: Why Current Critiques of Multiculturalism Miss the Point

Richard Allen

French and British Models of Integration Public Philosophies, Policies and State Institutions

Christophe Bertossi

How (Not) to Think about Ethnicity in Immigrant Societies: A Boundary Making Perspective

Andreas Wimmer

New Europeans on the Move: A Preliminary Review of the Onward Migration of Refugees Within the European Union

Nicholas Van Hear, Anna Lindley

Political Exclusion and the Politics of Recognition Among the Second Generation: The Swiss Citizenship Debate

Susanne Wessendorf

The 2006 French Immigration and Integration Law: Europeanisation or Nicolas Sarkozy’s Presidential Keystone?

Meng-Hsuan Chou, Nicolas Baygert

Diasporas Good? Diasporas Bad?

COMPAS Communications

Islam as a Symbol of Protest: Reactions of Dutch-Moroccan Youths to the Debate on Islam

Lenie Brouwer

“No Pizza without Migrants”: Between the Politics of Identity and Transnationalism: Second-Generation Italians in Switzerland

Susanne Wessendorf

Backlash Against Diversity? Identity and Cultural Politics in European Cities

Ralph Grillo

Immigrants and the Politics of Governance in Barcelona

Richard Allen

Other Publications

Briefing note

Building an Inclusive City Narrative

Jacqui Broadhead

ECONREF Research Note: 1

The Health of Refugees in the UK

Carlos Vargas-Silva and COMPAS Communications

Review

Migration Policy Making in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities for Civil Society

Sarah Spencer

Resource

Developing a Strategic Approach to Integration in Wales: A practical resource for Local Authorities and their partners in Wales

Sarah Spencer and Siân Sanders

Information portal

UK Coordination of the European Website on Integration

Jacqui Broadhead

Policy Briefing

Marriage and Migration: facilitating the integration of migrant spouses

Katharine Charsley, Marta Bolognani, Sarah Spencer, Hiranthi Jayaweera & Evelyn Ersanilli

Policy Brief

Consistent Support and Mutual Learning Required

COMPAS Communications

Breakfast Briefing

What are the experiences and concerns of white working class communities?

Daniel Silver

Global Exchange briefings

What works in social integration?: Intergroup contact

Miles Hewstone

Global Exchange briefings

What do we know about social interaction and spatial integration and what are the key emerging issues?

Nissa Finney

Global Exchange briefings

What do we know about socio-economic integration, and what are the key emerging issues?

Anthony Heath and Yaojun Li

Global Exchange briefings

How has Britain’s integration debate developed since 2000?

Will Somerville

Global Exchange briefings

What are the main concepts and approaches within integration policy?

Varun Uberoi

Global Exchange briefings

How has Britain’s Post-War Experience of Immigration Shaped the Contemporary Debate on Integration?

Andrew Thompson

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