Overview

This Handbook brings together the viewpoints of academics, practitioners, artists and people seeking refuge in Scotland to explore the global learnings that can be gained from this context. The book engages with the challenge of supporting integration as multi-directional processes within a broader setting in which forced migration is often criminalised. Situating its analysis of integration in Scotland, the book combines chapters based in theory, which explore issues ranging from the concept of integration to law, borders and integration policy, with creative and practical responses to these issues. The book offers hopeful alternatives to current realities of forced migration, and a compelling challenge to dominant narratives related to refuge and integration. It will be of interest to practitioners, policymakers and scholars working with refugees and asylum seekers around the world. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.

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Author:   Esa Aldegheri ,  Dan Fisher ,  Alison Phipps
Publisher:   Multilingual Matters
Imprint:   Multilingual Matters
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9781800418974

ISBN 10:   1800418973
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   12 August 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Sabir Zazai: Foreword Esa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher and Alison Phipps: Introduction: Integration with Refugees Section 1: Rethinking Integration  Chapter 1.1. Hyab Yohannes and Alison Phipps: Restorative Integration as a Decolonial Praxis: On Love and Rage Chapter 1.2. Esa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher and Alison Phipps: Re-Framing Integration as Restorative: Implications For Approach, Process and Practice  Chapter 1.3. Teresa Piacentini: A Manifesto for Change: On the Ethics and Practice of Teaching and Researching Migration in the Political Now! Interventions 1a. Tawona Sitholé: Touching Care 1b. Chirikure Chirikure: Thirst and Stretch Out Your Strongest Hand 1c. Nii Tete Yartey: Restorative Integration as Choreography Section 2: Communities, Integration and Inter-Cultural Communication  Chapter 2.1. Esa Aldegheri and Pinar Aksu: Community Development, Resistance and Integration: Reflections on Practice and Theory Chapter 2.2. Sarah Cox: Languages of Integration – Steps Towards Ecological, Multilingual Practices Interventions 2a. Sawsan Abdelghany: Creative Approaches to Teaching ESOL 2b. Mohammad Al Khatib: Language and Integration 2c. Piki Diamond: Let us Manaaki! Section 3: Place(s) For Integration  Chapter 3.1. Azadeh Fatehrad and Davide Natalini: Nature-Based Integration: Unpacking Community Experiences Across the UK Chapter 3.2. Pinar Aksu and Dan Fisher: The Politics of Asylum Dispersal: Testimonies of Dis-Integration in Hotel Accommodation Interventions 3a. J. E. Nurse: Mental Health in the Asylum Process and Integration 3b. Will Tuladhar-Douglas: Integration and Ecological Justice 3c. Brittnee Lysen: The Renaming of New Zealand to Aotearoa: Embodying a Place of Refuge Section 4: Law and The Borders of Integration  Chapter 4.1. Dan Fisher and Pinar Aksu: Integration in Immigration Law: Discretion, Exclusion and a Double-Edged Sword Chapter 4.2. Esa Aldegheri: A Point of Departure: Mapping and Integration Interventions 4a. S.O.: Waiting Time and Integration  4b. Adam Williamson: Interpreting in the Asylum System – The Elephant in the Room 4c. Kofi Anyidoho: Goodfriday Section 5: Narratives of Integration  Chapter 5.1. Bethia Pearson, Sadie Durkacz Ryan and Marzanna Antoniak: Integration and the Media: Reflections from a Participatory Project in Glasgow Chapter 5.2. Esa Aldegheri: Education for Integration: The Importance of Narrative-Based Approaches Interventions 5a. Katherine Mckinnon: The Ambiguity of Poetry can be Liberating 5b. Tawona Sitholé and Alison Phipps: Little Amal at COP26 5c. Hsiao-Chiang Wang - Hope: Heritage Education as a Method for Integration: Storytelling in The Antonine Wall  Section 6: Improving Integration Policy   Chapter 6.1. Scot Hunter, Dan Fisher and Savan Qadir: Understanding Refugee Integration in Policymaking: Lessons from Policy Comparisons Chapter 6.2. Scot Hunter and Maggie Grant: Safety, Recovery and Belonging: Interacting Policies and Integrative Practices Encountered by Unaccompanied Children in Scotland Interventions 6a. Savan Qadir: From Uncertainty to Advocacy: Navigating the Complexity of Integration 6b. Ishmail Yambasu: Education and Integration 6c. Anonymous Palestinian Voice: Palestinian Voice (Arab ‘48) Section 7: Arts-Based Integration as Restorative Practice   Chapter 7.1: Catrin Evans: The Integrating Self: (Re)Construction and Self-Authorship as a Form of Creative Citizenship-Forming Chapter 7.2: Alison Phipps: How Might We Approach a Powerful Stranger? Arts-Based Methods and Cultural Approaches to Refugee Integration Interventions 7a. Lucy Cathcart-Fröden: I have more than just one Name: Learning from Multilingual Creative Workshops 7b. Rola Zakaria Sabab: A Personal Odyssey through the Destruction: Chronicles of Life in War-Torn Gaza 7c. Francis Nyamjoh: The Pandemic’s Whimsical Lesson: A Scholarly Conversation with Creative AI Avril Bellinger: Afterword 8a. Nazmi Al Masri: Salam and Peace from Gaza to All Babies Glossary

Reviews

An incisive and elegant collection! A beautifully crafted story reminding us how restorative praxis, connection, and justice keep us human in regressive times. My heart gravitates towards the interventions, the poems, sounds, artwork, and reflections that reach across the page into our souls to interrupt and enrich our thinking. * Caroline Lenette, University of New South Wales, Australia * This Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland offers much more than its title suggests. It is a passionate, critical, and unashamedly political take on the much-maligned concept of integration. Across 36 analytical chapters and creative interventions this is a collection which completely reframes how we understand integration. A must read. * Lucy Mayblin, University of Sheffield, UK *

Author Information

Esa Aldegheri is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK, investigating how unequal narratives and bordering of refugee journeys affect processes of integration. Her previous research supported the development of the third New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy. As a multilingual scholar, writer and educator she is also active in interdisciplinary projects beyond academia. Dan Fisher is a political geographer and a research associate at the Centre for Public Policy, University of Glasgow, UK. His areas of interest are the practices of border control, processes of asylum determination and the governance of refugee integration. Dan has engaged widely with the policy community, including through his work with UNESCO-RILA, which contributed to the development of the third New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy in 2024. Alison Phipps holds the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow, where she is also Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies.

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