Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit : a guide for practitioners, policymakers, and community builders / Luce Beeckmans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beeckmans, Luce, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social integration.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2025.

Summary:

A practical guide with a fresh, bottom-up perspective on integration. This Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit invites us to look at integration from a perspective that moves beyond a polarised debate - one which either sees newcomers as failing to integrate, or views society as insufficiently welcoming. Instead, it offers a bottom-up approach highlighting how integration is already happening 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).

Contents:

Introduction

PART I - SEEING INTEGRATION OTHERWISE

Introduction: Arrival infrastructuring

1. Resourcing

2. Bridging

3. Coming together

4. Claiming Reflection and advice

PART II - DOING INTEGRATION OTHERWISE

Introduction: Taking action

1. Awareness-raising

2. Coalition-building

3. Empowering Reflection and advice

Illustration credits.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

94-6166-676-4

94-6166-675-6

OCLC:

1526229220

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access