6. Social Integration of Immigrants with Special Reference to the Local and Spatial Dimension

Asselin, Olivier; Dureau, Françoise; Fonseca, María Lucinda; Giroud, Matthieu; Hamadi, Abdelkader; Kohlbacher, Josef; Lindo, Flip; Malheiros, Jorge; Marcadet, Yann; Reeger, Ursula

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“…Hence, we define acculturative integration as the process by which immigrants become an accepted part of the receiving society, intertwined with other actors involved in social life (Asselin et al 2006). It is an ecological and multidimensional process that involves: (a) acquisition, development and mutual transmission of knowledge and abilities for the adjustment to new situations and environments; (b) access to the resources needed to achieve wellbeing; (c) development of diverse and solid social networks; and (d) acquisition of feelings and behaviors of belonging to the new society (Asselin et al 2006;Lindo 2005;Oliveri 2008;Reinsch 2001).…”

Section: The Challenge Of Acculturative Integrationmentioning

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“…It is an ecological and multidimensional process that involves: (a) acquisition, development and mutual transmission of knowledge and abilities for the adjustment to new situations and environments; (b) access to the resources needed to achieve wellbeing; (c) development of diverse and solid social networks; and (d) acquisition of feelings and behaviors of belonging to the new society (Asselin et al 2006;Lindo 2005;Oliveri 2008;Reinsch 2001). This ecological and self-construction perspective is consistent with liberation psychology, which aims at developing an understanding of the role of psychology in social transformation.…”

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“…This requires the active participation of immigrants, assuming ''the 'construction of place' encompassing physical production, social practices and relations, identities and symbolic meanings'' (Asselin et al 2006, p. 159). Ethnic businesses, religious services, meeting points, cultural expressions, all contribute to the construction of culture in these ethnic enclaves (Asselin et al 2006). Therefore, an acculturative sense of place is crucial in the reconstruction of self-integration.…”

Section: Citizenship Level: From Exclusion To Belongingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Liberation Psychology Approach to Acculturative Integration of Migrant Populations

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This paper describes an acculturative integration approach that stresses the contribution of liberation psychology. Immigrant integration is a challenge for receiving countries in the Western world due to the frequent asymmetrical and oppressive conditions suffered by newcomers in their new settlements. The cross-cultural perspective connects integration with psychological acculturation, emphasizing harmony between acquisitions of the new culture while maintaining cultural heritage, and creating opportunities for intergroup relationships. In turn, liberation psychology permits an understanding of the acculturative transition as an empowerment and self-construction process by which immigrants acquire a new vision of the world and of themselves, transforming both structural conditions and themselves. From this perspective we conceptualize acculturative integration as the process by which newcomers become an accepted part of the new society through a reflexive and evaluative process, changing their social references and position, rebuilding their social and personal resources, and achieving a new agency in coherence with their new challenges and goals. In this process, they acquire critical thinking about unequal conditions, gain capacities to respond to the inequalities, and take effective actions to confront them. We illustrate this process using the narratives of nine Moroccan women who are living in asymmetrical and oppressive local contexts in Andalusia, the southern-most region of Spain.

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Section: The Challenge Of Acculturative Integrationmentioning

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“…The emphasis in European research has, however, been at the urban level, focusing on cities with little attention given to differences between urban and rural sites (Baldwin‐Edwards ; Asselin et al. ). This is also true for Alexander's () typology of local government policies which focused on labour migrants in cities who are either seen as transient, guest workers, permanent new arrivals who are expected to assimilate and those who will retain ethnic differences, described as “pluralist” (Alexander : 417).…”

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The role of local government in migrant and refugee settlement in regional and rural Australia

Boese

Phillips

2017

Aust J Social Issues

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Government responsibility for the settlement of newly arrived refugees and migrants in Australia is shared between the federal, state and local levels. While Australia's settlement policies are predominantly top-down and Commonwealth driven with some state involvement, local government has the potential to play a greater role in facilitating the settlement of newly arrived migrants and refugees. A growing body of literature in Australia and overseas highlights the role of local-level policies in supporting integration and social cohesion, which is arguably even more crucial in the context of migrant and refugee settlement in regional and rural areas. This paper draws on focus groups with 90 local stakeholders in eight local government areas in Victoria to propose a typology of local government involvement that shows the variable but potentially significant role of local government in the regional and rural settlement of recent arrivals. We argue that Australia's over 560 local governments provide crucial but underutilised governance resources for improving the settlement process. This finding has implications for settlement policies and funding, intergovernmental coordination, and the retention of migrants and refugees in regional and rural communities in Australia. K E Y W O R D Sintergovernmental coordination, local government, migrants, refugees, regional and rural, settlement

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“…In turn, issues of collective identity became more and more politicized in the last decades as migrants' ''invasion'' of cities and local ''clashes of civilizations'' became crucial themes of electoral campaigns; indeed migrants are now the ''exotic other'' in Host-Stranger urban relations and local policies (Alexander 2003). This vast influx of migrants has opened a discussion on how to deal with urban multiculturalism and diversity (Fincher and Iveson 2008;Fincher and Jacobs 1998;Keith 2005); recent contributions emphasize the role of local migrant policies and their fundamental spatial component in determining the pattern of coexistence between communities (Asselin et al 2006;Caponio and Borkert 2010;Favell 2001). Internal displacement and the movement of refugees also have a substantial impact on cities, producing unique forms of spatial segregation related to the specific juridical statuses.…”

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The Political Geographies of Urban Polarization: A Critical Review of Research on Divided Cities

2012

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This article aims at providing a review of various streams of literature dealing with the spatial fragmentation of cities. In the last two decades many different contributions emphasized the growing fragmentation of the urban environment; the idea of “divided city” covers a multiplicity of approaches, methodologies and field of research. Still, the “divided city” literature tends to elevate a small number of cities to paradigmatic examples and to focus on abstract categories based on single factor explanations of urban fragmentation. The article, while accepting the hypothesis that the urban context is increasingly fragmented, argues that systems of coordinates – more than a taxonomy or a hierarchy – is needed to make sense of this phenomenon and draw significan comparison between cities. The article also maintains that a significant angle to look at urban polarization relates to the configuration of urban governance and political power. The article therefore considers three main areas connected to the distinction between polity, politics, and policy – and the three corresponding ideal‐types of partitioned, contested and discrete city – where the conflict focuses respectively on the jurisdictional shape of governance, the degrees and venues of access to decision‐making, and frame and contents of public policies.

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6. Social Integration of Immigrants with Special Reference to the Local and Spatial Dimension

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A Liberation Psychology Approach to Acculturative Integration of Migrant Populations

A Liberation Psychology Approach to Acculturative Integration of Migrant Populations

The role of local government in migrant and refugee settlement in regional and rural Australia

The Political Geographies of Urban Polarization: A Critical Review of Research on Divided Cities

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