Towards Intercultural Engagement: Building Shared Visions of Neighbourhood and Community in an Era of New Migration

Phillips, Deborah; Athwal, Bal; Robinson, David; Harrison, Malcolm

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2013.782146

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“…It is relatively cheap and easy to facilitate -which is significant given other studies have highlighted cost and organisational difficulties as barriers to establishing successful integration projects (e.g. Phillips et al, 2014). Football's team-based nature promotes mutuality or bonding around a common goal -the desire to win -which can overcome perceived differences and the complexity of identifications between participants.…”

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“…Although, it is also important to acknowledge that wider structural constraints (e.g. educational or socio-economic inequalities) and unfavourable dynamics of power between migrant and established groups can undermine or hinder the possible long-term effectiveness of intercultural social projects (Phillips et al, 2014).…”

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“…In particular, neighbourhoods have been identified as important contact zones where immigrants and settled residents come together (Robinson, 2010) and thus as a key setting where intercultural dialogue might be fostered to build bridges between new and settled groups and achieve genuine integration (e.g. Phillips et al, 2014). Here, micro-spaces where such purposeful contact might be achieved have been identified as, for example: libraries, drama groups and youth participation schemes (e.g.…”

Section: Integration and Spaces Of Encountermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Not everyone chooses to participate in interactions with people different from themselves when opportunities occur. Both majority and minority groups still (un)intentionally self-segregate or resist mixing (Andersson et al, 2012;Phillips et al, 2014) and even intimate contact with difference within extended families does not necessarily change attitudes towards 'others' in public space . Recognising that proximity on its own is not enough to bring about integration, some scholars have begun to reflect on the types of encounters which produce 'meaningful contact': that is contact which breaks down prejudices and produces a more general respect for others (Valentine, 2008).…”

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“…Activities like the League can bring different groups together who would not normally have the opportunity to meet and create the possibility for intercultural dialogue and understanding to develop, but they cannot overcome structural inequalities (e.g. differential educational opportunities) between immigrants and majority communities (see also Phillips et al, 2014).…”

Section: Barriers To Integrationmentioning

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Migration and diversity in a post-socialist context: Creating integrative encounters in Poland

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This article explores 'integrative encounters' between immigrants and Polish people in Warsaw. Rather than focus on new arrivals we pay attention to the integration experiences of the host population in recognition that this is a group who have been relatively neglected in the literature. Post-socialist European countries where population mobility was circumscribed during the communist era and as a consequence became perceived as relatively homogenous white societies but which are now seeing a rise in immigration, have been largely neglected by nondomestic scholars. In Poland organised group activity is an important means to provide the established population with an opportunity to encounter migrants because such encounters are less likely to occur in everyday spaces. Drawing on research with a Warsaw based NGO which runs a football league to bring Polish people and immigrants together, we argue that attention needs to be paid to the issue of 'motivation' to participate in integration projects and to the significance of sociality. In doing so, we suggest that creating the conditions for spontaneous connections to develop, even in contrived projects, is a way to overcome indifference to difference. Here, we highlight the qualities of football as a bridging activity to facilitate integrative encounters.

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Reflections on Migration, Community, and Place

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2015

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2 Reflections on Migration, Community and PlaceThere is an extensive literature detailing the situations and experiences of migrants. This includes local and national studies exploring the material conditions and everyday experiences of migrant workers, refugees and asylum seekers, issues of migrant identity, acculturation and integration, inequalities, and the local impacts of migration on, for example, the labour market and service provision. Yet despite recognition that migration is experienced differently in different places, and is affecting different places in distinct ways, less is understood about the factors underlying the variable geography of experience and outcome associated with migration. Why do immigrants, for example, appear to assimilate more smoothly in some parts of the host country than others? What underpins different experiences in different places? How strongly do migrants connect and identify with new people and places in a transnational world? And what can we learn from this?This special issue builds on discussions initiated at a Royal Geographical Society conference session that explored the o te tualisatio of ig a ts e pe ie es a oss a a ge of s ales. This ai ed to draw out the spatial variability, contradictions and ambiguities in migrant experiences, as well as exploring conceptual frameworks for understanding the connections between migration, community and place. The papers in this issue focus particularly on the local and more intimate places of social contact and encounter -the neighbourhood, parks and institutional spaces -but they also draw attention to the value of comparative research to tease out structural differences in opportunities, social context and policy that underpin commonalities and differences between localities.In this introduction, we explore different conceptualizations of migration, community and place at a range of nested scales. Drawing on a rich vein of geographical and migration scholarship, we encounter diverse and contested understandings of the role, significance and meaning of integration and community development at a time of increasing international migration and growing ethnic diversity. Building on traditional understandings of community as constructed through close and weak ties, social interaction, place attachments, and feelings of identity and belonging, we see how migration, community and place have become closely entwined in both political discourse and policy spheres across the EU (European Foundation, 2010). In Britain, for example, New La ou s community cohesion agenda, which fostered integration through community building in areas of migrant settlement, proved a powerful policy driver in the face of ethnic tensions and divisions, and continues to inform policy thinking today. This community building agenda, rooted in social contact theory (Hewstone and Brown, 1986), was based on the premise that greater intercultural contact at the neighbourhood scale would bring social integration and help to foster a sense of common identity, citizensh...

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A Place for Integration: Refugee Experiences in Two English Cities

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2015

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This paper seeks to inject an appreciation of place into analysis of refugee integration. A framework of integration sensitive to interactions between people and places is operationalised to facilitate the systematic comparison of the refugee integration process in different places. In particular, this paper explores variations in key indicators of integration within a cohort of refugees arriving into the UK from the same country of origin (Iraq), at the same time, granted the same legal status and afforded a similar package of support and assistance but settled in two different cities in England (Hull and Sheffield). Distinct differences in the integration experiences of refugees in the two cities are spotlighted and related to the contextual, compositional and collective aspects of the places into which they were settled. The findings highlight the importance of recognising that refugee integration is grounded and embodied in space and place and that despite proceeding under the same general operative processes can evolve differently in different places. IntroductionRelatively large numbers of asylum seekers and refugees have arrived into the UK over the last 20 years. The number of people seeking asylum in the UK rose from around 4,000 in 1987 to a peak of over 80,000 per year in 2002, before falling back to about 20,000 per year from 2005 onwards (Blinder, 2013). A major body of literature has emerged documenting the integration experiences of these refugees. Building on conceptualisations of integration as a two-way process involving change for migrants and host societies, research has set about revealing different settlement processes and experiences and establishing the conditions or relationships necessary for integration to occur. Different individuals and groups have been revealed to be integrating in different ways, at different velocities along different trajectories and with variable outcomes (Favell, 2001).Factors informing the integration process have been recognised as including prevailing notions of nationhood and citizenship (Ager and Strang, 2008), which shape legal status frameworks, the institutional environment of the receiving society and the rights and opportunities granted to refugees (Da Lomba, 2010; Johnson et al., 2009;Korac, 2003;Mulvey, 2010;Valenta and Bunar, 2010). The demographic characteristics, cultures and capacities of the settling population have also been identified as important determinants of the integration process (Castles et al., 2002;Threadgold and Court, 2005;Phillimore, 2011;Cebulla et al., 2010). Social connections and relations and, in particular, bonding relationships between refugees, have been spotlighted as key to the experiences of many refugees (Atfield et al., 2007;Cheung and Phillimore, 2013;Losi and Strang, 2008;Spicer, 2008;Valtonen, 2004;Vrecer, 2010).Despite these insights, understanding of the factors informing the integration experiences of refugees and their interconnectiveness remains relatively weak (Phillimore, 2011). Rutter (2013) sugg...

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Towards Intercultural Engagement: Building Shared Visions of Neighbourhood and Community in an Era of New Migration

Cited by 50 publications

References 17 publications

Migration and diversity in a post-socialist context: Creating integrative encounters in Poland

Migration and diversity in a post-socialist context: Creating integrative encounters in Poland

Reflections on Migration, Community, and Place

A Place for Integration: Refugee Experiences in Two English Cities

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