A Handbook of Integration with Refugees : Global Learnings from Scotland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aldegheri, Esa, 1978-

Contributor:

Fisher, Dan.

Phipps, Alison.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book brings together the voices of academics, practitioners, and people seeking sanctuary to explore the processes of refugee integration. Situated in learnings from Scotland, the book offers theoretical, creative and practical responses for a wide international audience.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword / Sabir Zazai

Introduction: Integration with Refugees / Esa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher, Alison Phipps

Section 1 Rethinking Integration

1.1 Restorative Integration as a Decolonial Praxis: On Love and Rage / Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes, Alison Phipps

1.2 Reframing Integration as Restorative Praxis: Implications for Approach, Process and Practice / Esa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher, Alison Phipps

1.3 A Manifesto for Change: On the Ethics and Practice of Teaching and Researching Migration in the Political Now!

1a Touching Care / Tawona Sitholé

1b Thirst & Stretch Out Your Strongest Hand / Chirikure Chirikure

1c Restorative Integration as Choreography / Nii Tete Yartey

Section 2 Communities, Integration and Intercultural Communication

2.1 Community Development, Resistance and Integration: Refl ections on Practice and Theory / Pinar Aksu, Esa Aldegheri

2.2 Languages and Integration - Steps Towards Ecological Multilingual Practices / Sarah Cox

2a Creative Approaches to Teaching ESOL / Sawsan Abdelghany

2b Language and Integration / Mohammad Al Khatib

2c Let us manaaki! / Piki Diamond

3.1 Nature-Based Integration: Unpacking Community Experiences Across the UK / Azadeh Fatehrad, Davide Natalini

3.2 The Politics of Asylum Dispersal: Testimonies of Dis-integration in Hotel Accommodation / Pinar Aksu, Dan Fisher

3a Mental Health in the Asylum Process and Integration / E. J

3b Integration and Ecological Justice / Will Tuladhar-Douglas

3c The Renaming of New Zealand to Aotearoa: Embodying a Place of Refuge / Brittnee Leysen

4.1 Integration in Immigration Law: Discretion, Exclusion and a Double-Edged Sword / Dan Fisher, Pinar Aksu

4.2A Point of Departure: Mapping and Integration / Esa Aldegheri

4a Waiting Time and Integration / Sekou Ouattara

4b Interpreting in the Asylum System - the Elephant in the Room / Adam Williamson

4c GOODFriday

Section 5 Narratives of Integration

5.1 Integration and the Media: Refl ections from a Participatory Project in Glasgow / Bethia Pearson, Sadie Ryan, Marzanna Antoniak

5.2 Education for Integration: The Importance of Narrative-Based Approaches / Esa Aldegheri

5a The Ambiguity of Poetry Can Be Liberating / Katherine Mackinnon

5b Little Amal at COP26 / Tawona Sitholé, Alison Phipps

5c Heritage Education as a Method for Integration: Storytelling in the Antonine Wall / Hsiao-Chiang Wang

Section 6 Improving Integration Policy

6.1 Understanding Refugee Integration in Policymaking: Lessons from Policy Comparisons / Scot Hunter, Dan Fisher, Savan Qadir

6.2 Safety, Recovery and Belonging: Interacting Policies and Integrative Practices Encountered By Unaccompanied Children in Scotland / Scot Hunter, Maggie Grant

6a From Uncertainty to Advocacy: Navigating the Complexity of Integration / Savan Qadir

6b Education and Integration / Ishmail Yambasu

6c Palestinian Voice (Arab '48)

Section 7 Arts-Based Integration as Restorative Practice

7.1 The Integrating Self: (Re) Construction and Self- Authorship as a Form of Creative Citizenship-Forming / Catrin Evans

7.2 How Might We Approach a Powerful Stranger? Arts Methods and Cultural Approaches to Refugee Integration / Alison Phipps

7a I have more than just one name: Learning from Multilingual Creative Workshops / Lucy Cathcart Frödén

7b A Personal Odyssey Through the Destruction: Chronicles of Life in War-Torn Gaza / Rola Zakaria Sabab

7c 'The Pandemic's Whimsical Lesson': A Scholarly Conversation with Creative AI / Francis Nyamnjoh

Afterword / Avril Bellinger

8a Salam and Peace from Gaza to all Babies / Nazmi Al-Masri

Glossary

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-80041-899-X

1-80041-898-1

OCLC:

1526232111