Discussion Of Integration Research Articles

From Integration to Marginalization

This study analyzes changes in the representation of the Chinese Indonesian or Tionghoa in history textbooks in Indonesia. There are two history textbooks under study, each published during the Guided Democracy and New Order periods. The focus of this study is on the topic of the Chinese people’s resistance to colonialism. A qualitative approach is used in this study with the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) method. The results show that there has been a change in the discourse of the representation of the Chinese Indonesian in history textbooks. During the Guided Democracy period, the Chinese were represented by a discourse of integration as part of the Indonesian nation which participated in the resistance against colonialism. During the New Order era, there was a change in political direction which encouraged assimilation with discriminatory practices against the Chinese. Prejudice and stereotypes against Chinese Indonesian people in Indonesia are strengthening. They were marginalized and removed from history textbooks. This research contributes to inclusive history education through the writing of history textbooks and their lessons which represent the Chinese Indonesian as part of diversity for national integration.

Policy responses to diversity in early childhood education and care: Setting the agenda and meeting the challenges

This article examines the contemporary Swedish policy responses to increased cultural and linguistic diversity in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC). More specifically, it explores how national authorities and organizations initiate collaborations, use and produce policy knowledge and identify priorities and challenges. The analysis draws on a review of policy texts and in-depth interviews with high-level policy actors who act as an epistemic community. Using the concepts of representations and problematization, this study connects the generation of policy knowledge on diversity with the identification of solutions to address cultural and linguistic diversity. The findings suggest a consensus over the definitions of priorities for diversity policies in ECEC within this epistemic community. A core priority is emphasizing the importance of the Swedish language within a wider multilingual approach linked to increased participation in preschools, and to discourses of school readiness and societal integration. Yet, there is a tension between identifying policy priorities and structural challenges at different levels. Unequal conditions, residential segregation and lack of educated preschool staff present difficulties that require a more comprehensive approach than those taken by the official policy frames.

Integration: a tale of two communities

UK integration policy has attempted to respond to some of the critiques of the integration framework, and policymakers are pursuing an approach that focusses on the local. This paper examines this response with a particular focus on the city of Bristol. It first sets out the fundamental critiques of the integration paradigm and connects these to more general concerns in migration research about methodological nationalism and scholarly engagement with policy making. It notes different responses to these critiques including a turn to place-based approaches. It describes the history of integration policy as a background to understanding contemporary policy and observes the overlooked importance of community. The paper then describes the ESRC Everyday Integration project and the city and neighbourhood context of Bristol before moving to discuss the findings from the project’s fieldwork. We find that ‘community’ was a very important reference point when our interviewees discussed what integration means. Talking about integration helps turns neighbourhoods into ‘communities’, but it also foregrounds ‘national communities’. Integration discourse elides these two meanings of ‘community’, and locates connections between race and class in the challenge of problematic cultures.

Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope

The European Union (EU) has long projected the vision of an integrating Europe, centred on successful regional integration, as a better geopolitical model in comparison to ‘others’, such as the Cold War superpowers, US neoconservativism or diverse autocratic regimes. The purported superiority of the ‘European model’ is thereby linked to credibly advancing the story of successful regional integration – internally as well as externally. This article suggests a narrative continuum between EU-optimism and EU-scepticism and argues that perceptions about the ‘success’ of the EU as a model for regional integration have changed between the first and the second decade of the new millennium. As part of this shift, EU-scepticism has gained in prominence over EU-optimism. This is related to a series of geopolitical ruptures since the late 2000s, in particular, the financial crisis, disputes on human mobility and border management, rising nationalism, Brexit and other right-wing populist movements across the continent. Focussing on the divisions within the EU as regards financial and migration policy, this article highlights three interrelated simultaneities. It argues (a) that process and discourse of (b) integration and disintegration have (c) internal and external dimensions. Empirically, it builds on interviews with African and European geopolitical elites that have been conducted as part of two research projects on external perceptions of the EU in East Africa between 2010 and 2018. It thus offers a snapshot on the shift of both ‘internal’ and ‘external’ perceptions of the EU against the context of wider geopolitical transformations over the course of this decisive decade.

The Understanding of Democracy as a Measure of Integration: An Examination of the Change in Integration Discourse Around the Democracy Debate Based on the Case of the Turkish Diaspora in Germany

This article discusses the intensified debate about people of Turkish origin in Germany in the context of speculations about deviating understandings of democracy among the Turkish diasporas. Based on the thesis that a change in German integration discourse from measurable material achievements of the migrant community to immaterial aspects of adaptation with regard to norms and values is taking place, an argument for a discourse-theoretical perception of this debate is developed, whereby existing forms of the negatively connoted foreign construction of the community of Turkish origin are discussed.

Approval of Democracy in Modern Ukraine: European Integration Discourse

The study is dedicated to identifying the grounds and factors for the establishment of democracy in post-Soviet Ukraine. The objective grounds for establishing democratic values include national traditions, the territorial and spiritual unity of Ukrainians, and developed a civil society. Taken together, they create the basis for the formation of the main foundations of a consolidated democracy in Ukraine. The main challenges and threats to democracy in Ukraine are related to the functioning of the artefacts of a totalitarian society in the spheres of management, economy, culture, ideology, and, at the current stage, the full-scale aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.Internal threats include the existence of confrontational dividing lines in society (regional opposition, shadow economy, corruption schemes, social injustice, confessional confrontation, resisting the establishment of the state language, etc.). The main external threats are the interference of the Russian Federation in the sovereign rights of Ukraine to implement its own development strategy.The guarantee of building a consolidated democracy in Ukraine is the collective will of the society itself, which performs a dual creative function: on the one hand, it acts as an initiator and donor of positive democratic changes in the country, on the other, it performs the functions of public control over the activities of all branches of government in their observance of the constitutional principles of state life. The fundamental result of the consolidated efforts of the authorities and civil society is Ukraine's legislatively supported integration course.

Integration Discourses, the Purification of Gender and Interventions in Family Migrations

ABSTRACT In a critique of integration, Schinkel (2018) highlights the purification of class and race which evacuates explanatory variables from studies of integration as a concept and practice. Surprisingly gendered purification is left out. This article argues that a range of gender issues presenting migrant women, especially from Muslim countries, as being deficient in modernity and contributing to poor social reproduction through their family practices and transnational ties, were at the forefront of political calls for intervention in family lives and the implementation of integration measures in the past two decades. In part this reflects an attempt to alter the class composition of family migrants and bring them closer to middle-class norms and values. Such reductionist and homogenizing representations continue despite the complexity of contemporary family migrations and practices, reinforcing the continuing purification and simplification of categories of analysis in discussions of racialized gender and classed integration in European societies.

‘Devout, profane and hard’, – chasing integration policy in Northern Ireland

ABSTRACT This paper considers the experience of asylum seekers and refugees in Northern Ireland against the background of different periods of non-governance, arguing that consociationalism is hindering the implementation of an integration strategy. Northern Ireland is one of the only regions in the UK without a dedicated refugee integration strategy, in spite of one existing in draft form. As a devolved region, it sits outside the UK policy of asylum dispersal, but has to adhere to UK immigration legal policy. Northern Ireland has, however, the power to create and embed refugee integration policies and strategies as a devolved region. We seek to problematize the notion of refugee ‘integration’ within the context of a divided society, thereby questioning what it is asylum seekers and refugees are being asked to do within this discourse of integration. In a context where sectarianism continues to shape the spatial and social infrastructures, this is even more complex an aspiration.

Literatura carcelaria en los Andes: indigeneidad y nacionalismos en Perú y Bolivia

This essay develops a comparative analysis between two prison texts produced in Peru and Bolivia. In my reading hypothesis, the novel El sexto (1961), by José María Arguedas, and the autobiographical account Bolivia: cemetery of freedom (1955), by René López Murillo, establish, starting from the prison as the setting and the indigenous figure as a character, alternatives and criticisms of the authoritarian nationalist discourses mobilized in Peru and Bolivia in the mid-twentieth century. These same anti-establishment practices, however, are not exempt from contradictions. As this essay demonstrates, whether out of admiration and respect in El Sexto, or with the absolute distance posed by the autobiographical narrator in López Murillo's story, the representation of the indigenous subject and, consequently, the assessment of his difference, are subjected to parameters that, if not fully equated with authoritarian discourses of integration and acculturation, do minimize indigenous agency on the horizon of the national community. Instead of that agency, these narratives reinforce the exceptionality of the indigenous subject in the prison setting and in the nation itself. In El Sexto, the construction of the political wisdom of the character Cámac elevates his representation to the condition of ideal model for nationality. In Bolivia, the disingenuous presence of Kenta, the indigenous character, among the political prisoners constitutes a remarkable deviation from expectations. I propose that both, idealization and caricature seem to inform the limitation that the narrators of these texts confront when trying to include or reject the representation of the indigenous within the codes shared by a presumably non-Indian audience of readers.

Anglonormativity in Norwegian language education policy and in the educational trajectories of immigrant adolescents

In the Nordic countries, policy debates about English often highlight the threat of domain loss for national languages, but the high status of English may also have a differential impact on people in Nordic societies. This article investigates a policy gap in Norwegian upper secondary education, whereby an advanced English subject requirement may hinder graduation for immigrant adolescents with little previous English instruction, despite English not being the medium of education in Norway. The aim of the study is to examine the impact of the upper secondary English requirement and of sheltered instruction as a local policy solution for such students. I use nexus analysis (Hult, 2015) to analyze ethnographic data from one upper secondary school that created an ad hoc sheltered English class. Data include field notes, classroom video and audio recordings, language portraits, and interviews with one school leader, one teacher, and six students. I draw on decolonial theory (e.g., García et al., 2021; Santos, 2007), notably Anglonormativity (McKinney, 2017), to trace discursive, interactional, and personal policy scales. I found that the sheltered class reflected discourses of integration and Anglonormativity, but nonetheless offered greater affordances for participation than a mainstream English class. Furthermore, comparing the emphasis on English remediation with students’ broader repertoires surfaced possibilities for reframing students as resourceful multilingual learners. I discuss policy options that might better address underlying issues of epistemic justice, compared to solutions limited to increasing students’ proficiency in languages of power like English.

Коммуникативная стратегия самопрезентации русскоязычном деловом дискурсе

The paper analyzes verbal patterns of communicants in the discourse of recruitment. The need to examine patterns and rules of communicative behavior of job applicants highlights the relevance of the study. Its results will enable predicting the success of communication during a job interview and, as a result, in employment. The purpose of the author is to identify and analyze the main and unique verbal tactics of interviewees implemented within the self-presentation as a basic strategy of job candidates. This strategy is represented by a scheme that includes a list of direct and indirect self-presenting actions. 
 The basic method of the study is an integrative discourse analysis undertaken as part of linguistic pragmatics. The goal of the study, characteristics of its object and subject justify the selection of this approach. The outlined indirect self-presenting actions of the job candidate include the request for communicatively meaningful information and productive self-criticism by which the applicant can demonstrate professionalism and interest in obtaining a position.
 The prevalence of indirect self-presenting tactics in the Russian-language recruitment discourse demonstrated for the first time by the study, is linked primarily to the specifics of the Russian mentality and business environment. The materials and findings of the study may be utilized in further linguistic studies and are important for recruiters and all potential applicants.

“Filming Back” in siberian indigenous cinema

This paper examines the Siberian films by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio. It focuses on filmic means em-ployed in order to “film back” to outsider cinema. Applying film analysis as a method, it demonstrates how film form can be as political as content when used to give voice to Siberia indige-nous peoples and re-view earlier Soviet discourse of equality, integration and progress. It highlights two aesthetic strategies used by the filmmakers to “film back:” the re-appropriation of archival footage to rework the past and recredit indigenous in-dividuals; and the creation of a plural pseudo-autobiographical voice to break the Soviet monologue and embody the shared indigenous experience. Finally, it argues that looking at formal aspects helps to rethink our understanding of such notions as “talking back” and “shooting back,” often used indifferently, with the addition of the “filming back” concept, reserved to filmic issues.

COVID-19 Metaphoric Blends in Media Discourse

The study aims at describing COVID-19 metaphorical representations in media discourse. The analysis of conceptual metaphors in political and medical discourse enables a reconstruction of metaphorically based knowledge of coronavirus in English speech communities. Being produced by world political leaders and media presenters these conceptual metaphors influence the socialunderstanding of the novel disease both directly and indirectly. The study is based on the Conceptual Metaphor theory, Conceptual Integration theory and Discourse analysis. The range of the target domain COVID-19 includes the following source domains: WAR and PERSON. The latter is further elaborated as GUEST, INTRUDER, ENEMY, CRIMINAL, SPY, TEACHER. The focus is on the cross-space mappings which present the sets of systematic correspondences between the target and source domains. The novel conceptualisations based on the conventional use of metaphoric patterns are analysed within the framework of the following cognitive devices: extending, elaboration, questioning, and combining. The conceptual blends and emergent structures that provide additional layers of COVID-19 interpretation are represented by means of Conceptual Integration Networks, namely, double- and multiple-scope models. The analysis reveals that the conceptual metaphor COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS WAR is mostlyrepresented in political discourse that refers to the disease as a general threat to the world. In medical discourse the metaphor COVID-19 IS PERSON is objectified, with further elaboration of the source domain. The correlation COVID-19 IS TEACHER reveals positive connotations of the phenomenon.

Indigenous people and regional resource rights: insights from three mining regimes in north-eastern India

ABSTRACT This study investigates the socio-geographic assertions of regional resource rights by indigenous people in a demarcated indigenous region in north-east India. It analyses local media content to gain insights into the process of discursive (de)legitimation targeting three mining regimes. The results uncover (de)legitimation attempts using multiple themes that are grounded in the physical and institutional features of the region. These themes are flexibly deployed to advance the overarching discourses of protective separation and developmental integration. Further, the results demonstrate how the process of discursive (de)legitimation influences, and is influenced by, significant internal disparities, leading to varying degrees of indigenous convergence.

THE ROLE OF THE STATE JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION OF UKRAINE IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT OF JUSTICE

In recent years, due to numerous transformations of the legal framework for the functioning of the judiciary, the scientific community has focused on the fundamentals of the judiciary, the legal status of courts, the features of judicial protection of human rights and other important aspects of judicial law. Naturally, the issue of organizational support of justice is a derivative compared to the issues of the judiciary and the legal status of courts and judges. However, we should not forget that even in the context of reforms, the courts continue to operate and the bodies responsible for the organizational support of justice operate. And in this case, the problems of ineffective legal regulation and the implementation of organizational support of justice often make it impossible to achieve the effectiveness of any reforms, and often nullify them. Considering the above, it is critical to revive the scientific discussion on the issues of organizational support of the judiciary. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the role of the State Judicial Administration in the organizational support of justice. The article reviews the role of the State Judicial Administration in the organizational support of justice. Emphasis is placed on the European integration discourse of the study of the legal status of the SJA. Conceptual -categorical, structural-functional and organizational aspects of determining the role of the SJA in the organizational support of justice are described. The importance of further research into the role of the SJA in the financial provision of full and independent justice, analysis of the communicative activity of the SJA in the system of organizational support of justice, as well as finding ways to stimulate innovation activity was emphasized. Key words: State Judicial Administration of Ukraine, organizational support of justice, full and independent justice, system of subjects of organizational support of justice, innovation activity.

‘You Have to Integrate to Belong Here!’: Acculturation and Exclusion among Turkish and Belgian Descent Students on a University Campus

ABSTRACT While substantial attention has been given to the integration processes of ethnic minority groups across Western Europe, few studies have focused on how students in higher education engage with and make sense of these processes. We conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with 25 female university students of Turkish and Belgian descent to shed light on students’ acculturation meanings. Our analyses show that both student groups reiterate the mainstream interpretation of integration as an adaptation process targeting immigrants and their descendants, although their views differ particularly as they relate to the dimension of cultural maintenance. Students’ accounts show how sweeping demands for integration are putting pressure on female ethnic minorities, restricting their freedom to negotiate their identities and making them vulnerable to exclusion and marginalisation. The acculturation attitudes of ethnic majority students, however, remain exclusionary as they fail to consider their own role in acculturation and enjoy few opportunities to build meaningful relations across ethnic groups on the university campus. We discuss the role of higher education context in reproducing such exclusionary mainstream integration discourses and delve further into the implications of gender in shaping students’ acculturation meanings and experiences.

How News Organizations Sell Native Advertising: Discourses of Integration and Separation on In-House Content Studio Web Sites

ABSTRACT This study adds to the growing literature on native advertising and journalism by analyzing how seventeen prominent news organizations promote their in-house content studios on their web sites. As public-facing spaces oriented toward attracting clients, these sites are understood as discursive artifacts that provide insight into how news organizations negotiate their allegiance to norms of journalistic autonomy while simultaneously developing the role of creating paid advertising campaigns that sit alongside news content. Our analysis reveals that news organizations simultaneously engage in discourses of integration and separation between native advertising and news content. They signal the integration between news and advertising through the usage of “story” as an umbrella term for digital content while also maintaining separation through nuanced language choices that imply some degree of distance between news and native advertising. These diverging discourses demonstrate how fraught native advertising is for news organizations striving to be recognized as legitimate providers of authoritative news while attempting to bolster revenues in face of the difficulties arising with the digital advertising market. These findings draw on and expand discursive theories in journalism studies by broadening inquiry beyond news content to encompass the complex terrain of content production emerging within the digital space.

The Place of Child Labour in the Regional Integration Discourse within ECOWAS: An Analysis of the Existing Legal Instruments and Responses

Purpose – This study aims to examine the lingering issue of the violation of child rights that occurs through the practice of child labour within the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) and the ongoing discourse on regional integration.Design methodology/approach – A textual analysis is conducted and a deconstruction of the argument that has been put forward to sustain the existence of practical actions at regional and sub-regional levels in providing an adequate legal response to the problem of child rights violation through child labour within ECOWAS.Findings – There is evidence of inequity in legal responses to validate the discourse on regional integration in that enduring human rights violations in general and child rights violations, in particular, cannot consolidate regional integration perspectives.Originality/Values – The study reveals that Regional integration is a holistic endeavour. It does not rest on it must necessarily encompass the question of human rights promotion and protection. Unfortunately, the increasing literature on regional integration has often omitted human rights as a pillar of successful regional integration.

When the “subaltern empire” speaks. On recognition, Eurasian integration, and the Russo-Georgian war

ABSTRACT By combining insights from social constructivist IR theories and postcolonial theory, the article addresses the issue of Russia’s appropriation of Western political vocabulary in the cases of Russia’s discourse on Eurasian economic integration and humanitarianist discourse of R2P employed during and after the Russo-Georgian war in August 2008. The view that mimicry and subversion are the motives behind Russia’s behavior is taken further by emphasizing the relevance of recognition for Russia’s identity quest. Thus, we argue that through plugging into the discourse of the hegemon and partially reinterpreting it, Russia attempted to demonstrate the entitlement to shape the language which would ultimately confirm its belonging to the great power club.

The quest for health and the unhealthy ‘others’. A critical case study of Syrian women newcomers’ meeting with health promotion and civic integration discourses upon arrival in Denmark

ABSTRACT Increasingly restrictive immigration policies and political attention to newcomers’ civic integration currently intersect with the individualisation of the responsibility for health care and health promotion in Western societies. We aim to examine how such policies shape women newcomers’ perceptions of health and experiences of civic health promoting activities in the first years after granted asylum and temporary residence permit in Denmark. Drawing on conceptualisations of healthism as a super-value for the individual in Western societies, we analyse 29–50 year old Syrian women newcomers’ experiences of meeting an all-encompassing and individualised concept of health that is promoted by various societal institutions in Denmark (including schools and leisure sites). While the women describe their everyday lives in Syria as unconsciously healthy, in the receiving context, they came to appear as consciously unhealthy. Further through individual and focus group interviews, the women characterise white Danish women as a healthy and active group, while describing themselves as the ‘unhealthy others’. The Syrian women take on feelings of blame and individual responsibility for promoting their health, despite also describing a number of structural barriers for their healthy and active living. However, the Syrian women newcomers also deliver an implicit critique of the individual quest for health in Western societies and showcase more collective approaches to health care.