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From Integration Policies to Belonging: Local Integration Workers’ Boundary Construction Concerning Immigrants in Rural Areas
The concept of integration implies an imbalance between people, where immigrants are those who are obligated to integrate into the society of a new...
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How Employment Generates Social Integration: Trends Towards Disintegration and Over-Integration in the Hyper-Work Society
Using an analytical framework that further develops Jahoda’s ideas and distinguishes between two manifest and five latent mechanisms for the...
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Integration
Der Begriff der Integration wird in der Soziologie äußerst vieldeutig verwendet. Gemeinsam ist der Gedanke des Verbindens von einzelnen Elementen zu...
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Instead of ‘writing against’ and discarding ‘immigrants’ integration, why not reconceptualize integration as a wicked concept?
Over the years, some scholars have not only written against the concept of immigrant integration but have called for its rejection and abandonment....
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Social Integration – Levels and Dimensions
The conceptual proposals on social integration are diffuse and vague. Alarmist diagnoses are contrasted by empirical research results that give an...
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What We Have Learned About Social Integration: Conclusion
This chapter concludes the special issue on social integration and makes three additional contributions. First, we discuss how the featured articles...
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Migrant Integration
This chapter focuses on the issue of international migrants’ integration in destination countries, which refers to the process of settlement,...
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Ethnic Diversity and Social Integration—What are the Consequences of Ethnic Residential Boundaries and Halos for Social Integration in Germany?
Does immigration erode the social integration of contemporary mass-scale societies? Continued immigration and corresponding growing ethnic, racial,...
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Who Benefits from Domestic Market Integration?
The historical integration of economic markets between and within nations has profoundly altered human society. Nonetheless, existing literature on...
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What do we talk about when we talk about integration: towards a differentiated view on integration and fragmentation in coastal and marine spatial planning
Bob Dylan once sang that he contained multitudes. So too does integration. More integrated planning of coasts and oceans has long been hailed as a...
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Integration
Strategic temporality permeates the integration experience of Turkey’s Syrians in a number of ways. First, given their temporary legal status, there...
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The EU, Korea, and conflict transformation through regional integration
The post-World War II experience of conflict and regional cooperation in (Western) Europe and East Asia has been very different. Despite their...
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Social Integration Through Conflict: Mechanisms and Challenges in Pluralist Democracies
Conflicts are not usually associated with social integration, but rather with threats to it. They appear as a cause of social distance, alienation...
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Spiritism in Germany: A Resource of Integration for Brazilian Migrants?
This account of qualitative anthropological field research in Brazil and Germany explores the importance of translocal Spiritist/Kardecist networks...
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Rethinking Integration
This chapter, questions the notion of integration from an angle that requires major rethinking. The analysis of integration reveals that the...
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Integration Effect on Rural Migrants’ Settlement Intention in Urban China
The integration experiences of migrants are intricately connected to their quality of life and influence their settlement decisions. This paper goes...
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The coloniality of migration and integration: continuing the discussion
The journal Comparative Migration Studies has published a series of articles engaging with critiques of migrant integration. This piece wishes to...
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Integration Theory
The concept of the integration of membership systems should be used in sociological theory as a general reference problem and not formulated from the...
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Social Integration: Conceptual Foundations and Open Questions. An Introduction to this Special Issue
Is the social integration of contemporary Western societies at risk? We will not provide an answer to this question, which is high on the political...
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Social Milieus and Social Integration. From Theoretical Considerations to an Empirical Model
Current debates on threats to social integration in times of multiple crises call for a better understanding of the relationship between...
