Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship

Q Evansluong, L Grip, E Karayianni - International Journal of …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to understand how immigrant entrepreneurs use digital
opportunities to overcome the liability of newness and foreignness and how an immigrant's …

A help or hindrance? Highly educated refugees' perceptions of the role of civic integration programmes in accessing the labour market in Oslo, Malmö and Munich

K Mozetič - Comparative Migration Studies, 2022 - Springer
Research often focuses on individual-level factors shaping refugee labour market
participation. Less research has been conducted on the implications of the roles of …

From Integration Policies to Belonging: Local Integration Workers' Boundary Construction Concerning Immigrants in Rural Areas

M Enbuska - Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2024 - Springer
The concept of integration implies an imbalance between people, where immigrants are
those who are obligated to integrate into the society of a new country. Thus, I suggest that …

Integrating the immigrant the Swedish way? Understandings of citizenship and integration in Swedish local civic integration projects

C Hudson, L Sandberg, K Sundström - Journal of Intercultural …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In Sweden, integration is a pressing issue particularly following the large influx of immigrants
in 2015. Swedish municipalities play an important role in civic integration, with responsibility …

Festival participation for integration and inclusion? A critical reflection

S Abbasian - World Leisure Journal, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this research is to get a better understanding of the impact of the Stockholm
Fire Festival on the cultural integration of immigrant communities, and particularly its impact …

“Ghost city” or habitable city? The production and transformation of space in China's new towns

G Yin, Y Liu, Y Chen - Cities, 2024 - Elsevier
China's new town and ghost city phenomenon has attracted interest from academics and the
media since the 2010s. There is, however, little research on the lived experiences of people …

A missing piece: the absence of discussion about integration policy in the Slovak migration discourse

R Štefančík, E Stradiotová, T Seresová - Migration Letters, 2022 - ceeol.com
In the current paper, we will explain how and why Slovak politicians have been largely
unwilling to articulate the topic of migrant integration in recent years, even though up until …

Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors' understandings of integration. An interpretative phenomenological analysis

M Hosseini, E Punzi - Smith College Studies in Social Work, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
There is a lack of knowledge concerning how unaccompanied refugee minors (UMs)
perceive integration. This study concerns how Afghan UMs in Sweden understand …

Adult migrants' endeavours for a life as included

S Nordmark, H Colliander - Social Inclusion, 2023 - cogitatiopress.com
In many European countries, Sweden included, social inclusion of adult migrants has come
to mean second language learning and labour market establishment. This understanding of …

Mandated economic self-sufficiency from state and refugee perspectives: refugee integration policy and practice in Sweden and New Zealand

M van Riemsdijk, V Anderson… - Journal of Ethnic and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Using the case studies of Sweden and New Zealand, this article examines the ways in which
self-sufficiency and individual responsibility are embedded in integration policy and enacted …