Defining and implementing social integration: a case study of school leaders’ and practitioners’ work with newly arrived im/migrant and refugee students

Lundberg, Osa

doi:10.1080/17482631.2020.1783859

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“…17 Réussite du PAE-Statistiques, Radius, field document. 18 Social downward (Leo 2022;Lundberg 2020;Çelik and ˙Içduygu 2019) is one of them, concerning both the decrease in the socio-economic status of the person, and the fact that he or she has to start studying again, often already being qualified because of the university training courses completed in the country of origin.…”

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International Student Experiences in Three Superdiverse Higher Education Institutions: Institutional Policies and Intersectionalities

Aksay Aksezer,

Demiryontar,

Dorrity

et al. 2023

Social Sciences

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Higher education has been facing many challenges due to factors including increased diversification, internationalization, massification, and the expansion of different forms of mobility, which are transforming the landscape of higher education towards “superdiversity”. These challenges are addressed within the framework of “inclusive education”, aiming to increase participation and foster a culture of welcome at higher education institutions. However, scholarly discussions on the ways these initiatives impact the lived experience of students who may face divergent and intersectional forms of exclusion, inequalities, tensions, and discrimination are limited. To address this gap, based on the experience of three participating universities in the European University of Post-Industrial Cities (UNIC) alliance, this paper aims to examine and reflect on the diversity and inclusion practices of the institutions, particularly those targeting concerns for international students with different profiles. Drawing on both existing and emergent data through an extensive case study analysis, the paper focuses on the scope and effectiveness of existing support mechanisms. It concludes that improving the experience of international students and promoting their inclusion at universities requires a combination of top-down and bottom-up mechanisms, as well as centralised and decentralised services. Systematic data collection using a range of engaged research tools also ensures that policies respond to real needs.

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confidence: 99%

International Student Experiences in Three Superdiverse Higher Education Institutions: Institutional Policies and Intersectionalities

Aksay Aksezer,

Demiryontar,

Dorrity

et al. 2023

Social Sciences

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“…A productive activity refers to any type of paid or unpaid activity that produces such goods or services of value. 23 Previous studies have broadly identified productive activities as one of the types of activity: employment, [24][25][26] education, 27 and volunteer work. 24,26 The varied productive activities can be determined by an individual's characteristics-such as age, gender, education, and health status.…”

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Social integration: A concept analysis

2022

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Background: In recent decades, social isolation has been increasingly linked to serious health conditions. However, social integration (SI) is a complex concept that has not been systematically explored or defined in nursing. It is essential for nurses and healthcare providers to have a clearer concept of SI to better provide holistic care to support optimal health.Purpose: This concept analysis aimed to clarify the concept of SI in health research and to identify attributes, antecedents, and consequences of the concept of SI to enhance understanding of the concept and its implications for human health.Methods: Walker and Avant's framework was used as the methodology for the concept analysis of SI. A literature search using PubMed, CINAHL, and Embase databases on SI was conducted with keywords: "integration," "social integration," "social relationships," "social participation," "community integration," "socialization." Studies included in the search were published from 2001 to 2021.Results: SI is affected by multidimensional individual, societal, and environmental factors. Defining attributes are productive activities, social relationships, community engagement, and leisure activities. SI is effective in promoting multiple aspects of health as well as healthy aging and overall well-being. Conclusion:The analysis contributes to a comprehensive and fundamental understanding of SI and contributes to helping nurses better understand patients' circumstances that promote or inhibit SI. This knowledge will support the development of interventions that support optimal health and well-being, in assisting patients to remain integrated or reintegrate into society during and following an illness or injury.

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“…Many children seek refuge or migrate to European countries, often arriving unaccompanied, traumatized by the violence they faced and the loss of their beloved ones. Once arrived in Europe, the struggle goes on, facing difficulties with integration in school (Crul et al, 2019), peer community (Daniel et al, 2020), and their broader social circle (Lundberg, 2020). For example in Greece, one of the countries that has been receiving hundreds of thousands of refugees over the past years, it is clearly evident that refugees remain socially excluded, despite the various humanitarian programs that have been developed to support people's lives (Bareka et al, 2019).…”

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Flourishing in Resonance: Joint Resilience Building Through Music and Motion

Nijs

Nicolaou

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Worldwide, children face adverse childhood experiences, being exposed to risks ranging from, exposure to political violence and forced migration over the deleterious effects of climate change, to unsafe cultural practices. As a consequence, children that seek refuge or migrate to European countries are extremely vulnerable, often struggling with integration in school, peer community, and their broader social circle. This multifaceted struggle can derive from external factors, such as the adaptation process and contact with other children, or internal factors such as the fears and trauma that every child carries within them since they departed from their homeland. To bounce, grow, connect, and create in both adversity and opportunity, children need to build resilience, i.e., the capacity of an individual to maintain stable psychological functioning throughout the course of adversity. On the one hand, building resilience requires developing a set of individual skills (internal protective factors), such as self-control, emotion regulation, self-esteem, and agency. On the other hand, building resilience involves developing social skills (external protective factors), connection, and close relationships. In this theoretical contribution, we review and map existing research to argue that activities based on the combination of music and movement has a strong potential to intensively build resilience. First, we connect the concepts of resilience and eudaimonia, based on the protective factors and key components of resilience. Then we discuss how music and movement, separately, may contribute to building resilience. Next, drawing on the basic mechanisms of musical sense-making, we argue that through combining music and movement, children engage in empowering musical sense-making processes that support building resilience, and in this way, support them to grow together and deeply experience eudaimonic values such as self-awareness, confidence and self-esteem, personal autonomy, connection, belonging, and bonding. Finally, we connect theory to practice. Based on the presented theoretical elaborations and on the authors’ experience as practitioners, we propose a set of guiding principles for the design of movement-based musical activities that foster the internal and external factors necessary to build resilience.

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Defining and implementing social integration: a case study of school leaders’ and practitioners’ work with newly arrived im/migrant and refugee students

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

International Student Experiences in Three Superdiverse Higher Education Institutions: Institutional Policies and Intersectionalities

International Student Experiences in Three Superdiverse Higher Education Institutions: Institutional Policies and Intersectionalities

Social integration: A concept analysis

Flourishing in Resonance: Joint Resilience Building Through Music and Motion

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