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Book SynopsisLooking beyond urban immigration, this ground-breaking book explores how immigrants can become a part of local communities in remote regions. Contributors argue that immigrant integration is place-dependent, and develop new theories, methodologies, and policies that address the specific dynamics of immigration to peripheral areas.
Emphasising migrants’ attachments to the places they reside in, this book adopts a bottom-up approach to immigrant integration, prioritising the needs of individual agents. It highlights the various methodological flaws and ideological biases of existing theories of integration and provides novel solutions to integration problems. Chapters examine key features of immigration to remote places, including transnational social networks developed by migrants, and translocal and global understandings of place. Ultimately, the book reveals the multi-faceted, multi-layered and socially-constructed nature of immigrant integration.
New Methods and Theory on Immigrant Integration will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in international migration, human geography, ethnic relations, European studies, and sociology. It will also be essential reading for professionals in NGOs and political institutions seeking to develop effective immigration integration policies.
Trade Review‘In our day and age, when migrants in the West are no longer confined to cities and metropoles, but also increasingly make their mark in the countryside and small towns, there is a dire need for scholarly research on migration outside urban areas. Wait no more. In Daniel Rauhut’s New Methods and Theory on Immigration Integration
, all those sorely overlooked topics are carefully analyzed from refreshing perspectives by distinguished scholars in the field. Along with it, conventional wisdom is being challenged. Certainly, an extremely valuable research and teaching resource!’ -- Göran Adamson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Table of ContentsContents: Preface ix 1 Methodological and theoretical perspectives on immigrant integration in rural and remote areas: an introduction 1 Daniel Rauhut 2 Theorising immigrant integration: a critical examination 13 Daniel Rauhut and Jussi P. Laine 3 Integration and rural space in Sweden: a three-dimensional approach 33 Susanne Stenbacka 4 Integrating remote places: a place-based perspective on integration in the Scottish Outer Hebrides 51 Maria Luisa Caputo, Michele Bianchi, and Simone Baglioni 5 Crossing the border: immigrant integration in a bordering perspective 68 Daniel Rauhut and Jussi P. Laine 6 Transcultural and post-migrant evidence in rural Carinthia: a conceptual approach 86 Marika Gruber 7 Subjective perceptions of immigrant integration: an example from rural Spain 104 Raúl Lardiés-Bosque and Nuria del Olmo-Vicén 8 Measuring immigrant integration – determining how, what, and who 123 Zuzana Macuchova and Daniel Rauhut 9 The methodology of immigrant integration: an epistemological perspective 142 Daniel Rauhut 10 Epilogue: what is lurking behind migrant integration? 163 Ayhan Kaya Index
