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A Handbook of Integration with Refugees

Global Learnings from Scotland

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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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.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Foreword
xxv
Sabir Zazai

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Introduction: Integration with Refugees
1
Esa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher and Alison Phipps

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Section 1 Rethinking Integration
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1.1 Restorative Integration as a Decolonial Praxis: On Love and Rage
21
Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes and Alison Phipps

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1.2 Reframing Integration as Restorative Praxis: Implications for Approach, Process and Practice
39
Esa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher and Alison Phipps

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1.3 A Manifesto for Change: On the Ethics and Practice of Teaching and Researching Migration in the Political Now!
56

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1a Touching Care
61
Tawona Sitholé

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1b Thirst & Stretch Out Your Strongest Hand
64
Chirikure Chirikure

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1c Restorative Integration as Choreography
65
Nii Tete Yartey

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Section 2 Communities, Integration and Intercultural Communication
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2.1 Community Development, Resistance and Integration: Refl ections on Practice and Theory
71
Pinar Aksu and Esa Aldegheri

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2.2 Languages and Integration – Steps Towards Ecological Multilingual Practices
86
Sarah Cox

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2a Creative Approaches to Teaching ESOL
101
Sawsan Abdelghany

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2b Language and Integration
105
Mohammad Al Khatib

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2c Let us manaaki!
107
Piki Diamond

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3.1 Nature-Based Integration: Unpacking Community Experiences Across the UK
115
Azadeh Fatehrad and Davide Natalini

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3.2 The Politics of Asylum Dispersal: Testimonies of Dis-integration in Hotel Accommodation
133
Pinar Aksu and Dan Fisher

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3a Mental Health in the Asylum Process and Integration
150
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3b Integration and Ecological Justice
152
Will Tuladhar-Douglas

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3c The Renaming of New Zealand to Aotearoa: Embodying a Place of Refuge
157
Brittnee Leysen

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4.1 Integration in Immigration Law: Discretion, Exclusion and a Double-Edged Sword
163
Dan Fisher and Pinar Aksu

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4.2A Point of Departure: Mapping and Integration
177
Esa Aldegheri

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4a Waiting Time and Integration
192
Sekou Ouattara

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4b Interpreting in the Asylum System – the Elephant in the Room
195
Adam Williamson

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4c GOODFriday
198

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Section 5 Narratives of Integration
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5.1 Integration and the Media: Refl ections from a Participatory Project in Glasgow
201
Bethia Pearson, Sadie Ryan and Marzanna Antoniak

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5.2 Education for Integration: The Importance of Narrative-Based Approaches
216
Esa Aldegheri

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5a The Ambiguity of Poetry Can Be Liberating
231
Katherine Mackinnon

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5b Little Amal at COP26
234
Tawona Sitholé and Alison Phipps

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5c Heritage Education as a Method for Integration: Storytelling in the Antonine Wall
237
Hsiao-Chiang Wang

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Section 6 Improving Integration Policy
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6.1 Understanding Refugee Integration in Policymaking: Lessons from Policy Comparisons
245
Scot Hunter, Dan Fisher and Savan Qadir

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6.2 Safety, Recovery and Belonging: Interacting Policies and Integrative Practices Encountered By Unaccompanied Children in Scotland
262
Scot Hunter and Maggie Grant

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6a From Uncertainty to Advocacy: Navigating the Complexity of Integration
278
Savan Qadir

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6b Education and Integration
281
Ishmail Yambasu

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6c Palestinian Voice (Arab ‘48)
283

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Section 7 Arts-Based Integration as Restorative Practice
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7.1 The Integrating Self: (Re) Construction and Self- Authorship as a Form of Creative Citizenship-Forming
287
Catrin Evans

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7.2 How Might We Approach a Powerful Stranger? Arts Methods and Cultural Approaches to Refugee Integration
305
Alison Phipps

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7a I have more than just one name: Learning from Multilingual Creative Workshops
323
Lucy Cathcart Frödén

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7b A Personal Odyssey Through the Destruction: Chronicles of Life in War-Torn Gaza
327
Rola Zakaria Sabab

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7c ‘The Pandemic’s Whimsical Lesson’: A Scholarly Conversation with Creative AI
330
Francis Nyamnjoh

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Afterword
333
Avril Bellinger

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8a Salam and Peace from Gaza to all Babies
338
Nazmi Al-Masri

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Glossary
339

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Index
349

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eBook published on:

August 26, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9781800418981

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368

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800418981

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A Handbook of Integration with Refugees

Overview

About this book

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction: Integration with Refugees

1.1 Restorative Integration as a Decolonial Praxis: On Love and Rage

1.2 Reframing Integration as Restorative Praxis: Implications for Approach, Process and Practice

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

1a Touching Care

1b Thirst & Stretch Out Your Strongest Hand

1c Restorative Integration as Choreography

2.1 Community Development, Resistance and Integration: Refl ections on Practice and Theory

2.2 Languages and Integration – Steps Towards Ecological Multilingual Practices

2a Creative Approaches to Teaching ESOL

2b Language and Integration

2c Let us manaaki!

3.1 Nature-Based Integration: Unpacking Community Experiences Across the UK

3.2 The Politics of Asylum Dispersal: Testimonies of Dis-integration in Hotel Accommodation

3a Mental Health in the Asylum Process and Integration

3b Integration and Ecological Justice

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

4.1 Integration in Immigration Law: Discretion, Exclusion and a Double-Edged Sword

4.2A Point of Departure: Mapping and Integration

4a Waiting Time and Integration

4b Interpreting in the Asylum System – the Elephant in the Room

4c GOODFriday

5.1 Integration and the Media: Refl ections from a Participatory Project in Glasgow

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

5a The Ambiguity of Poetry Can Be Liberating

5b Little Amal at COP26

5c Heritage Education as a Method for Integration: Storytelling in the Antonine Wall

6.1 Understanding Refugee Integration in Policymaking: Lessons from Policy Comparisons

6.2 Safety, Recovery and Belonging: Interacting Policies and Integrative Practices Encountered By Unaccompanied Children in Scotland

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

6b Education and Integration

6c Palestinian Voice (Arab ‘48)

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

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

7a I have more than just one name: Learning from Multilingual Creative Workshops

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

7c ‘The Pandemic’s Whimsical Lesson’: A Scholarly Conversation with Creative AI

Afterword

8a Salam and Peace from Gaza to all Babies

Glossary

Index

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