A Handbook of Integration with Refugees

Illustrations



Contributors



Acknowledgements



Sabir Zazai: Foreword



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



Section 1: Rethinking Integration



Chapter 1.1. Hyab Yohannes and Alison Phipps: Restorative Integration as a Decolonial Praxis: On Love and Rage



Chapter 1.2. Esa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher and Alison Phipps: Re-Framing Integration as Restorative Praxis: Implications For Approach, Process and Practice



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



Interventions



1a. Tawona Sithole: Touching Care



1b. Chirikure Chirikure: Thirst and Stretch Out Your Strongest Hand



1c. Nii Tete Yartey: Restorative Integration as Choreography



Section 2: Communities, Integration and Inter-Cultural Communication



Chapter 2.1. Pinar Aksu and Esa Aldegheri: Community Development, Resistance and Integration: Reflections on Practice and Theory



Chapter 2.2. Sarah Cox: Languages of Integration - Steps Towards Ecological, Multilingual Practices



Interventions



2a. Sawsan Abdelghany: Creative Approaches to Teaching ESOL



2b. Mohammad Al Khatib: Language and Integration



2c. Piki Diamond: Let us Manaaki!



Section 3: Place(s) For Integration



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



Chapter 3.2. Pinar Aksu and Dan Fisher: The Politics of Asylum Dispersal: Testimonies of Dis-Integration in Hotel Accommodation



Interventions



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



3b. Will Tuladhar-Douglas: Integration and Ecological Justice



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



Section 4: Law and The Borders of Integration



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



Chapter 4.2. Esa Aldegheri: A Point of Departure: Mapping and Integration



Interventions



4a. Sekou Ouattara: Waiting Time and Integration



4b. Adam Williamson: Interpreting in the Asylum System - The Elephant in the Room



4c. Kofi Anyidoho: GOODFriday



Section 5: Narratives of Integration



Chapter 5.1. Bethia Pearson, Sadie Ryan and Marzanna Antoniak: Integration and the Media: Reflections from a Participatory Project in Glasgow



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



Interventions



5a. Katherine Mackinnon: The Ambiguity of Poetry can be Liberating



5b. Tawona Sithole and Alison Phipps: Little Amal at COP26



5c. Hsiao-Chiang Wang (Hope): Heritage Education as a Method for Integration: Storytelling in The Antonine Wall



Section 6: Improving Integration Policy



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



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



Interventions



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



6b. Ishmail Yambasu: Education and Integration



6c. Anonymous Palestinian Voice: Palestinian Voice (Arab '48)



Section 7: Arts-Based Integration as Restorative Practice



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



Chapter 7.2: Alison Phipps: How Might We Approach a Powerful Stranger? Arts-Based Methods and Cultural Approaches to Refugee Integration



Interventions



7a. Lucy Cathcart-Froeden: I have more than just one name: Learning from Multilingual Creative Workshops



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



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



Avril Bellinger: Afterword



8a. Nazmi Al Masri: Salam and Peace from Gaza to All Babies



Glossary



Index