'He's a Cracking Wee Geezer from Pakistan': Lay Accounts of Refugee Integration Failure and Success in Scotland

Kirkwood, Steve; McKinlay, Alan; McVittie, Chris

doi:10.1093/jrs/feu003

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“…Foundation: Rights and citizenship (developed from Ager & Strang, 2004: 3) Means and markers are described as being essential to achieve if integration is to occur. Kirkwood, McKinlay, and McVittie (2015) point out that most of the UK government's support for integration comes in this area, in the form of accommodation, education and access to the National Health Service, which offers healthcare free at the point of delivery. Asylum seekers, however, are not allowed to work, whereas refugees are.…”

Section: Integrationmentioning

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Political and media discourses about integrating refugees in the UK

Goodman

Kirkwood

2019

Euro J Social Psych

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This article addresses political and media discourses about integrating refugees in the UK in the context of the “refugee crisis”. A discursive psychological approach is presented as the best way to understand what talk about the concept is used to accomplish in these debates. A large corpus of political discussions (13 hours of debate featuring 146 politicians) and 960 newspaper articles from the UK were discourse analysed. The analysis identified five dilemmas about integration: Integration is positive and necessary, but challenging; Host communities are presented as welcoming, but there are limits to their capacity; Refugees are responsible for integration, but host communities need to provide support; Good refugees integrate, bad ones don't; Refugees are vulnerable and are skilled. All are used to warrant the inclusion or exclusion of refugees. The responsibility of western nations to support refugees is therefore contingent on the refugees behaving in specific ways.

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Section: Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political and media discourses about integrating refugees in the UK

Goodman

Kirkwood

2019

Euro J Social Psych

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“…This polarised understanding of emotive publics exists in media-inflected discursive conditions framing immigration in terms of pro-and anti-immigration binaries (Kirkwood, McKinlay, & McVittie, 2014) and threat and hostility (Leudar, Hayes, Nekvapil, & Baker, 2008). Within such discursive conditions, it is not easy for politicians or policy makers to gain access to empirical evidence of a reasonable public when thorny political questions on immigration are involved.…”

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Public narratives on human mobility: Countering technocratic and humanitarian refugee narratives with a “one‐world” solidarity narrative

Mahendran

2017

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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This article articulates a one‐world narrative, which reconfigures human mobility in dialogical response to the ideational borders of the European Union. Fifty‐two semi‐structured interviews, in Scotland and Sweden, bring participants, ranging from people with refugee status to the generationally nonmobile, into dialogue with the integration ideals of the European Union. Within this ideational space, participants employ I‐positional dialogical capacities such as “outsideness” and “multivoicedness” to articulate a postnational “one‐world” solidarity narrative (OWN). OWN is revealed as distinct from a posthuman “one‐earth” sustainability narrative, which was found to “border” and delimit mobility. Three dimensions of OWN, (a) borders as constructed; (b) citizen of the world; and (c) accidental nature of existence, together repoliticise depoliticised technocratic reasoning, culturalism, and the asymmetries of humanitarian narratives on refugees. In conclusion, articulating the public's dialogical capacities is key to moving beyond public opinion towards public dialogue on vexed political questions such as immigration.

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“…Strang's (2004, 2008) earlier mentioned "integration framework" has been used by other scholars (e.g. Pittaway et al 2009;Valenta and Bunar 2010;Kirkwood et al 2014;Smith 2015) in their empirical studies on the integration of refugees. That framework consists of ten key domains that Ager and Strang found to assume a central importance in the integration of refugees.…”

Section: Integration: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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The Integration of Refugees into Croatian Society. Ethnographies of Exercising Rights

Jurković¹

2018

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Refugees who are beneficiaries of international protection in Croatia are granted rights, the implementation of which is discussed in this article, based on qualitative research methods conducted between February 2015 and September 2017. The article discusses how these granted rights are exercised by individuals-persons who have been granted asylum in Croatia. The research is based on an ethnography of the particular, involving participant observation and open and semi-structured interviews with refugees and representatives of institutions and organizations involved in integration. The main Croatian legislative act valid during the research period was partially implemented. Its implementation was the most problematic in an area that refugees consider as essential for integration: the provision of state-supported Croatian language courses. Other problematic areas for exercising rights were access to healthcare and to the education system. The article also compares the research findings with the results of migrants' and refugee studies completed in (mostly) Western European countries. Besides similarities with such studies, this research acknowledges the importance of a local context for integration and introduces a new, existential dimension of integration that proved to be crucial for the successful integration of refugees in Croatia.

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'He's a Cracking Wee Geezer from Pakistan': Lay Accounts of Refugee Integration Failure and Success in Scotland

Cited by 18 publications

References 25 publications

Political and media discourses about integrating refugees in the UK

Political and media discourses about integrating refugees in the UK

Public narratives on human mobility: Countering technocratic and humanitarian refugee narratives with a “one‐world” solidarity narrative

The Integration of Refugees into Croatian Society. Ethnographies of Exercising Rights

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