Re-Envisioning Immigrant Integration: Toward Multidirectional Conceptual Flows. Issue 2 (3rd April 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Abdelhady, Dalia; Norocel, Ov Cristian
• Is Part Of: Journal of immigrant & refugee studies. Volume 21:Issue 2(2023)
• Page Start: 119
• Page End: 131
• Publication Date: 2023-04-03
• Subjects: Critical knowledge -- conceptual flows -- Global North -- Global South -- immigrant integration; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Social work with immigrants -- United States -- Periodicals; 362.8753097305
• DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2023.2168097
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1556-2948

Abstract

Abstract: This special issue collects articles, which aim to re-envision integration, dislodging the previously monodirectional conceptual flow sourced in the Global North. Jointly, the articles pursue a critical scholarship contributing to multicentric knowledge production, disrupting binaries of integrated/nonintegrated, inclusion/exclusion, citizen/non-citizen, or indeed self/other. They evidence ambivalent subject positions, neither fully-included nor fully-excluded, and engender forms of belonging to the places immigrants are momentarily located in, albeit without a steadfast position granting them rights. The collected articles also emphasize the various scales of integration, be it wider global or regional flows, as well as more localized, zoomed-in, and ephemeral manners of integration.