A Handbook of Integration with Refugees

Global Learnings from Scotland

Edited by Esa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher, Alison Phipps

Publication date:

12 August 2025

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781800418974

This Handbook brings together the viewpoints of academics, practitioners, artists and people seeking refuge in Scotland to explore the global learnings that can be gained from this context. The book engages with the challenge of supporting integration as multi-directional processes within a broader setting in which forced migration is often criminalised. Situating its analysis of integration in Scotland, the book combines chapters based in theory, which explore issues ranging from the concept of integration to law, borders and integration policy, with creative and practical responses to these issues. The book offers hopeful alternatives to current realities of forced migration, and a compelling challenge to dominant narratives related to refuge and integration. It will be of interest to practitioners, policymakers and scholars working with refugees and asylum seekers around the world.

This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.

An incisive and elegant collection! A beautifully crafted story reminding us how restorative praxis, connection, and justice keep us human in regressive times. My heart gravitates towards the interventions, the poems, sounds, artwork, and reflections that reach across the page into our souls to interrupt and enrich our thinking.