Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit

A Guide for Practitioners, Policymakers, and Community Builders
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6270-473-2
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 566 g

A practical guide with a fresh, bottom-up perspective on integration

This Integration Otherwise Inspiration Kit invites us to move beyond the polarised debate on integration – one that either portrays newcomers as failing to integrate or blames society as insufficiently welcoming. Using a bottom-up approach, it offers a new perspective that highlights how integration is already taking place 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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beeckmans, Luce

Salamé, Dounia

Bovo, Martina

Hogan, Mary

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hadji Heydari Anaraki, Shila

Arnaut, Karel

Arvanitidis, Paschalis

Biehl, Kristen

Bisztrai, Márton

Bolt, Gideon

Csepeli, György

Desli, Athina Zoe

Guérin, Laura

Jensen, Tina Gudrun

Hanhörster, Heike

Kováts, András

Krasznahorkai, Emma

László, Zsuzsa

Lubberhuizen, Carolien

Makar, Sarah

Meeus, Bruno

Monson, Tamlyn

Örkeny, Antal

Papagiannitsis, George

Revilla, Lucie

Sandor, Alexandra

Saparova, Marhabo

Staubach, Reiner

Tippel, Cornelia

Tsavdaroglou, Charalampos

van Liempt, Ilse

Wessendorf, Susanne

Valiantzas, Zacharias

Vergou, Penelope

Voulvouli, Aimilia

Zilske, Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Arnaut, Karel
Karel Arnaut is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven. He teaches and conducts research on migration and mobility in relation to language use, diversity and inequality.

Meeus, Bruno
Bruno Meeus is Associate Professor at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. He teaches at the Institute for Social Work and coordinates research on housing precarity within the Centre for Social Innovation.

Beeckmans, Luce
Luce Beeckmans is Research Professor in Urbanism and Migration at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, KU Leuven, and vice-director of the KU Leuven Urban Studies Institute (LUSI).

Salamé, Dounia
Dounia Salamé is a social worker and PhD researcher at the Department of Architecture of KU Leuven.

Hogan, Mary
Mary Hogan is a scientific collaborator at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Department of Architecture of KU Leuven.

Bovo, Martina
Martina Bovo is a post-doctoral researcher at IUAV University of Venice and a contract professor at Politecnico di Milano. She held a post-doctoral position at KU Leuven’s Department of Architecture during the making of this book.