Discussion Of Integration Research Articles

Unruly Boys and Unemancipated Girls: Football Integration and Gendered Imaginaries of Difference

Sport–and particularly football–is commonly seen as a technology for targeting “at-risk” populations and cultivating happy multicultural communities. Using discourse theoretical analysis, this study explores the intersection of race and gender in the public relations materials for the annual Integration Prize awarded by the German Football Association (DFB) and Mercedes-Benz. In the prize texts, the national sport transcends difference to transform racialized populations, symbolizing the virtues of the national ethos. The prize narratives involve the transformation of disaffected and thus risky populations into happy, liberated, and productive multicultural assets to the national project. The overarching pedagogy focuses on self-discipline, social competency, and hard work. However, they diverge on crucial points across gender. The corpus singles out boys for deviant behaviors like aggression and criminality. Meanwhile, it targets girls for liberation from traditional patriarchal cultures that presumably dominate Muslim communities. Analysis shows that football integration discourse ignores both structural inequality–economic and ethnic–and the patriarchal gender norms that suffuse majority German football culture.

빅데이터를 활용한 유보통합에 대한 사회적 인식 분석

The purpose of this study is to find out the social discourse of ECEC integration using big data. Big data related to ECEC integration from 2013 to 2023 were collected using Textorm. The collected raw data were refined, and among them 50 keywords were selected as a result of frequency analysis. The results of the study are as follows. First, the social discourse of ECEC integration showed high frequency in the order of ‘teacher’, ‘child care center’, ’kindergarten’, ‘child care’, and ‘qualification’. As a result of cluster analysis, social discourse was formed centering on three core discourses such as teacher qualification acquisition, policy direction, and consultation subject. Second, major keywords such as ‘child care center’, and ‘kindergarten’ have a higher degree of centrality, while word such as ‘policy’, and ‘Korea National Open University’ have a higher closeness centrality. Third, the ego network analysis was conducted on the main keywords with higher centrality and frequency, such as ‘teacher’ and ‘qualification’. In addition, the ego network analysis was performed and visualized the main keywords and visualized. Through this study, the social discourse was investigated and implications for approach of ECEC integration were discussed.

The CDU and the Leitkultur Debate: An Analysis of Angela Merkel’s Integration Discourse Before and After the 2015 Syrian Refugee Crisis

The CDU and the Leitkultur Debate: An Analysis of Angela Merkel’s Integration Discourse Before and After the 2015 Syrian Refugee Crisis

‘Hosting refugees is the most rewarding experience’: migrant identity and affective positioning in curated NGO stories

ABSTRACT This study explores positive migrant storytelling in non-governmental organizations’ advocacy campaigns. We focus on the practices and implications of leveraging storytelling towards charity organizations’ institutional goals. Drawing upon critical discourse studies and narrative studies, we propose a critical storytelling approach that pays attention to the specific nature of storytelling as a discourse practice in itself. We focus on a UNHCR human-interest story of refugee displacement and subsequent integration into the UK. We employ the heuristic concept of positioning that calls for analysis at different, though interrelated levels of narrative activity, to explore how affect is mobilized and the specific identity categories and affect types that are created for migrants and their hosts. We then situate these identity positions in wider dominant discourses of migrant integration. We show that the story foregrounds emblematic refugees, worthy of hosts’ support as well as relationships of dependence between migrants and the host society as requisites to successful integration. We argue that the ways in which an individual refugee story gets mobilized as an exemplary story reveals canonized forms of positive migrant storytelling emerging in the UK context that end up invoking dominant power asymmetries in relation to migration and British integration.

Technological Advancements in e-Healthcare: A Comprehensive Assessment in orthopaedics-patient relationship management

Healthcare has witnessed a profound transformation over recent decades, one catalysed by the relentless march of technology. As the healthcare landscape evolves, the integration of technological innovations has become increasingly ubiquitous, revolutionising traditional care delivery models, and introducing novel paradigms. Amidst this advanced landscape, a particular focal point emerges, centred on the symbiotic relationship between technology and healthcare, embodied by the burgeoning field of e-healthcare.Within the broader expanse of healthcare, orthopaedics represents a significant frontier where the confluence of technological advancement and patient care has garnered attention. Orthopaedic practice, by its nature, often necessitates precision, innovation, and multidisciplinary collaboration. From diagnostic imaging modalities that offer unparalleled insights into musculoskeletal structures to wearable devices that empower patients to engage actively in their recovery, technology within the orthopaedic field catalysed a change.The main objective of this paper is to conduct a comprehensive assessment, shedding light on the state of the art in technological advancements within e-healthcare, with orthopaedics as our focal domain. At the heart of our research is a central concern: the orthopaedic-patient relationship. The importance of this relationship cannot be underestimated, as it is the foundation on which healthcare is provided. Our aim, therefore, is twofold: to elucidate the extent to which technology influences the orthopaedics-patient relationship and to uncover novel avenues through which this pivotal relationship can be fortified and optimised.The impetus behind this assessment is rooted in the dual importance of technological innovation and the orthopaedics-patient relationship. As orthopaedic practitioners increasingly harness technology and platforms, the potential for improved patient care, more informed decision-making, and enhanced outcomes beckons. However, these opportunities come hand in hand with challenges, including ethical and privacy concerns and the imperative to ensure that technology augments rather than diminishes the patient-physician bond. In this context, our assessment aims to contribute to the ongoing discourse of technology integration into healthcare, highlighting the unique dynamics that play within orthopaedic practice.

An "integration" of professional identity formation among rural physicians experiencing an interplay between their professional and personal identities.

The present understanding of professional identity formation is problematic since it underrepresents minority physicians and potentially excludes their professional identity formation experiences. Rural physicians are expected to have similar underrepresented aspects as minority physicians because of their specific sociocultural contexts and consequent private-professional intersection, which lead to ethical complexities. Therefore, to bridge this research gap, we interviewed 12 early- to mid-career Japanese physicians working in rural areas and explored their experiences. Through a narrative analysis guided by Figured Worlds theory, we analysed the data by focusing on the vocabulary, expressions, and metaphors participants used to describe their experiences. A central theme emerged concerning how the rural physicians configurated their personal versus professional participation in their local communities. Further, their identity narratives varied regarding how they constructed their identities, rural communities, and relationships as well as their identity formation ideals and strategies to achieve them. Informed by 'Big Questions' concerning worldview framework, we delineated four identity narratives as prototypes to describe how they participated in their communities. These identity narratives provide a preliminary understanding of how diverse identity formation is for rural physicians. In addition, our findings exposed the current professional identity formation framework as potentially biased towards single forms of participation in monolithic communities, overlooking complicated forms of participation in multiple communities. We argue that applying frameworks and concepts to capture these multiple forms of participation as well as revisiting the 'discourse of integration' are necessary steps to overcome the limitation of the current understanding of professional identity formation.

Through the eyes of a child: the meaning and negotiation of integration from the perspective of pupils in Vienna

Scholars have pointed out that the dominant discourse on integration in Austria is characterized by an assimilationist view. This is particularly evident in various education policy measures – e.g., German support classes (Deutschförderklassen) – which illustrate that the well-being of migrants is not sufficiently taken into account. Against this backdrop, it is interesting to elaborate to what extent the prevailing discourse shapes young people’s understanding of integration. Applying a child-centered approach, we conducted 87 interviews and 13 focus groups with pupils at six secondary schools in Vienna. Not only did we find many different understandings of integration but also contradictions, ambiguities and ambivalences with regard to the concept of integration. Our findings suggest that it is vital for society to perceive young people as active actors in the integration discourse and to take into account the meaning and negotiation of integration as well as the needs and well-being of migrants from the perspective of pupils in order to sustain the integration process of migrant children.

Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland

ABSTRACT Agnotology, the study of doubt and ignorance in areas where knowledge can be possessed, altered, hidden, and reclaimed, offers multiple insights into the working of states. This article explores the role of ‘ignoring’ as an active strategy of ignorance; a practice used by local governments to disregard certain knowledge and the production of alternative framings. Studying the intersection of welfare and migration policy based on an example of policy making and implementation in Switzerland, this work shows how resistance can be built by not paying attention, thus ignoring certain rules and policies, while actively shaping alternative frameworks to increase migrants’ rights. The cases build on the newly introduced Federal Act on Foreign Nationals and Integration, in which integration requirements exclude social assistance reception for foreign nationals in case they intend to retain or stabilise their residence status. Any financial dependence will thus cause a potential loss of residence or settlement permit. Focusing on the deficit of migrants individually and as a collective, therefore allows governments to exclude them, making ‘knowledge production’ and ‘ignoring’ fruitful concepts to explore such bordering processes. Yet, two city initiatives contested these restrictions, developing alternative financial support for foreign nationals, even if one of them was ruled unlawful. The examples show how authorities create sanctuary policies and choose to circumvent laws through an active ignoring of national policy intentions, reframing them on the local level. Linking ignorance to such local scales and their sanctuary support provides an asset in understanding local and practical endeavours of municipalities to secure political autonomy and increase resistance strategies. Hence, a restrictive understanding of integration at the national level foregrounds a one-sided view of non-citizens as costly and potential abusers of allegedly generous welfare support. Migration and social policy laws support such a one-sided perspective by allowing assessments to consider mainly economic integration, thereby excluding those who are not active in the labour market. However, local responses can challenge this one-sidedness by choosing to ignore an overly restrictive framework and try out potentials to resist.

“We Never Say We Are Integrating People!” Interpretative Repertoires of Integration Among Local Stakeholders in Sweden

This article examines how local stakeholders in Scania, the southernmost county of Sweden, talk about integration. Drawing on 28 qualitative interviews, we use the theoretical concept of interpretative repertoires to analyze perceptions and conceptualizations among those who work closely with migrant integration. We identify two interpretative repertoires that stakeholders draw upon to make sense of the concept on the ground: the separation and de-migranticization repertoires. The repertoires display a shared understanding among the stakeholders of integration as a failure, although they do not agree on the extent or cause of the perceived failures of integration, or even how the problems should be defined or tackled locally. Within the separation repertoire, integration is failing in terms of processes where primarily migrants are seen as accountable and responsible for their (in)ability to adapt to the Swedish society. Within the de-migranticization repertoire, integration is differently perceived as something that is plagued with misdirected or even false boundaries between groups (in this case “migrants” and “non-migrants”), and authorities are held accountable for problems beyond migrants and migration, such as inequality, racism, and discrimination. The findings reflect the contested field of integration on the ground and contribute to ongoing critical debates on the concept of integration within migration research, by providing snapshots from a bottom-up perspective of local stakeholders’ acceptance of, or resistance to, present-day integration discourses.

“Heroic” cinematography in art criticism discourse: conceptosphere

The purpose of the article is a theoretical under-standing of the conceptual sphere of “heroic” cinema-tography as a genre formation. The subject of research in this article is the conceptual sphere of “heroic” cinematography.
 The research methodology is based on the morpho-logical approach in art criticism and those ideas in the theory of film studies, which are contained in the works of H. Batalina, V. Horpenko, R. Cohen and others. We use the idea of V. Horpenko that “the specified problems of terminology demonstrate the complexity of their solution, and, in the end, from many options, you need to take one general direction, which should determine the system-forming methodology” (Horpenko, 2013, p. 77), it is the morphological approach that is the system-forming methodology for the subject of our research. Methodological approaches of Ukrainian media studies researchers outlined in the study “Media studies in the European integration discourse of Ukraine” are also used (Media studies, 2022).
 The result of the research presented in this article. 1. Formation of the conceptual sphere of a specific scientific problem is a necessary and multifaceted pro-cess. It requires not only the definition of the “title” research concepts, but also the levels of their use as scientific tools. 2. The basic principles of the formation of the conceptual sphere of the “heroic” film research are outlined and the semantic connections of the “title” concepts “hero” and “heroism” with the subject of the study are defined. The levels and vectors of the use of these concepts as a working toolkit for the study of “heroic” cinematography are characterized. 3. The polymorphism of “heroic” cinematography as a special morphological formation of modern cinematography is indicated.
 The scientific novelty of the study lies in the understanding of the basic principles of the existence of the conceptual sphere of the study of “heroic” cinematography as the newest polymorphic formation of Ukrainian cinematography.
 The practical significance of the results of the study based on the intelligent use of the specified scientific tools in the future research of modern Ukrainian cinematography.

Researches in Maurice Maeterlinck’s Theater Works

In 2023, Performantica Publishing House issued the study dedicated to the dramaturgy of Maurice Maeterlinck, a book signed by Cristi Avram. More than 450 pages constitute, in fact, a detailed, thorough analysis, approached from multiple perspectives, of the theater texts, but also of the Belgian writer's prose or poetry. At the same time, the author's constant preoccupation with searching among the performances, not so many and not too easy to access, for Maeterlinck's plays is a direction that completes the integrative discourse. Moreover, the encounter between literary critical commentary and their stage readings makes Infantilism and Elderliness in Maurice Maeterlinck's Theater an important and necessary reference book for the landscape of studies under Thalia's dome.

Unveiling complexity of hydrogen integration: A multi-faceted exploration of challenges in the Dutch context

As the transition to sustainable energy intensifies, hydrogen emerges as a pivotal medium in mitigating climate change and improving energy security. While its applicability across various sectors is undeniable, its integration into established energy systems presents multifaceted challenges. This study investigates the complexities of integrating hydrogen into the Netherlands' energy systems. Beyond technological advancements, the successful design and rollout of a hydrogen supply chain require coordination and collaboration among a myriad of stakeholders. Through a mixed-methods approach, this study combines findings from a broad literature review, policy document analyses, evaluation of 59 field projects, and engaging dialogues with 33 key stakeholders from different sectors. This investigation led to the identification and categorization of key players in the Dutch hydrogen sector, revealing their interconnected roles and the challenges encountered in the hydrogen integration process. The study further categorized the identified challenges faced by stakeholders into five core domains: technical, infrastructural (including supply chain), socioeconomic, environmental, and institutional, with associated factors. Prominent challenges include transportation infrastructure upgrades, high initial costs and scalability, effective storage methods, safety and cybersecurity measures, storage and distribution infrastructure, security of supply, and public acceptance. This study contributes to the hydrogen integration discourse, offering insights for academics, industry, and policymakers. Its detailed stakeholder analysis, holistic categorization of challenges across five domains, and a stakeholder-centric approach grounded in real-world dialogues offer applicable frameworks beyond its primary context. In this vein, it guides future research and decisions, and its approach is adaptable for different regions or sectors, emphasizing comprehensive transition strategies.

Parents as both problem and resource

This article addresses the question of how the parenting role has become an issue in relation to the contemporary politics of marginalized residential areas in Denmark. Drawing on the empirical and analytic categories of 'good' and 'bad' parenting, we explore how parenting skills and parental responsibility are central to problem solving and finding solutions for the area. We explore this to achieve a more critical approach to understanding how different discourses of integration and marginalized residential areas, create categories of ‘parenting’. The analysis shows how policies have different kinds of impact on parents in the neighbourhood, and how discourses on parenting vary across the empirical material including governmental strategies, social master plans, and interviews. Despite, in political terms, being regarded as part of the problem, the parents themselves shape their child

Towards a transformative lifelong learning agenda for non-traditional students at university

Liberalisation of higher education in Uganda meant opening its provision to the private sector, and also running a public-private mix model at public institutions. Consequently, the composition and needs of the student population at universities have changed due to flexibility in provision of study programmes and access routes. Students who had previously been excluded are also joining in increasing numbers. This article uses the feminist frameworks to equality and difference, discourses of integration and exclusion, and the concepts of Othering and Other to unpack equality of access, equity and inclusivity spaces of these new types of students. The aim is to contribute towards a learning agenda that promotes quality and sustainable educational development for all. We draw our findings from the voices of non-traditional students at a public university in Uganda. We validate these with voices of other germane actors to understand better the institutional policy and practice environments available to them. The equal opportunity provision has widened access for NTS but their equity and inclusivity spaces remain inadequately filled. To achieve sustainable inclusive and equitable quality higher education, we suggest a policy, practice and provision environment that promotes a transformative lifelong learning agenda.

Of Materiality, Cultic Spaces, and Agency … and Discourse in Between: The Entanglement of Religious Space, Discourse, and Practice in Two Case Studies—Two Mithraea and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

This programmatic essay builds on Jane Bennett’s concept of material vitality in exploring “the agency of the things that produce effects in human and other bodies,” while simultaneously broadening the perspective to take in the concept of discourse in order to elucidate human–matter interaction and the effects produced. Taking its bearings from critical spatiality theory, this essay argues that space (as arranged matter) is both constructed through discourse, and in turn constructs and mediates discourse. In that sense, religious spaces exert agency in the construction and mediation of discourse. This is demonstrated by means of two case studies of “agentic” material religious spaces. The first case study concerns the material arrangement of the typical mithraeum with its cave-like structure and the astral symbolism embedded in the material structure, and how this materiality shaped the ritual performances and the discourse of integration into a cosmic order. The second case study concerns the material arrangement of the fourth-century Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem encompassing all the core events central to Christianity, and which material space is enlivened and made “agentic” through liturgical performances (particularly those of the Easter Octave), in effect creating the experience of resurrection. Some fifth century discourses are drawn on to highlight how the intersection of material space and performance constructed a Christianity as mystery performance.

What Integration Discourses “Do”: The Gendered Migratization of Policy Issues and Justification of Welfare Retrenchment

ABSTRACT This article argues that when integration discourses are used in newspaper articles to discuss social policy issues, the issues are framed as being “about migrants” and not as issues that impact the population at large; through this migratization of policy issues, integration discourses are weaponized and may be used to justify welfare retrenchment. Integration discourses have received growing attention from critical migration scholars, who often focus on how the concept of integration reinforces ideas related to the nation-state and issues explicitly related to migrants and migration; however, more general social policy issues also use integration discourses. Against this background, the current study questions what integration discourses “do,” particularly referring to two cases published in local newspapers in Nordland County, Norway: the cash-for-care benefit (kontantstøtte) and adults’ right to upper secondary education. The results show (1) the gendered process of migratization that ascribes general policy issues as “migrant” issues and (2) how integration discourses are used to delegitimize these policies and, ultimately, to justify welfare retrenchment. The findings demonstrate that integration discourses transform the discussion of general policy issues into being “about migrants” with implications for the welfare state at large.

In search of change: Organizational role expectancies of CSR professionals

AbstractBased on an integrative discourse methodology, this study examines the organizational role expectancies of CSR professionals as articulated in CSR job advertisements, focusing specifically on what organizations expect CSR professionals to change. Four types of change were identified and organized into a matrix based on the inside or outside stimuli for these changes and their expected effects, which can materialize inside or outside the organization. Specifically, the four types of change include organizational development (aligning practices with organizational values), compliance (aligning practices with external norms), social approval (changing public perceptions), and agenda setting (changing the environment). These four types of change highlight the transformative as well as the self‐serving nature of the changes organizations expect CSR professionals to accomplish. On the practical side, the types of change provide insights into CSR as an occupation, as they highlight desired skills and competences of CSR professionals.

“Safety” and “integration”: examining the introduction of disaster into the science curriculum in South Korea

ABSTRACT The diversifying impacts of global disasters such as climate change and COVID-19 call for systematic consideration of how disasters can be addressed in different school subjects. In this paper, we discuss how the relationship between disaster and science education has been codified and framed in South Korea through an analysis of national curriculum and policy documents from the 2010s, a period marked by several human-caused disasters with lingering social impacts. A genealogical reading of policy documents reveals how disaster emerged as a curricular theme at the intersection of two policy discourses: the discourse of safety and the discourse of integration. Further analysis of the documents points to three tensions about science education that underlay this process, as disaster, a non-traditional topic, was introduced into the science curriculum. Our findings provide insights into the tensions and conflicting ideas about what should be learned in school science. We contend that a stronger theoretical and empirical base is needed when introducing new curriculum topics such as disaster into the curriculum. More effort is needed to justify the new topic against the existing aims and structures of school subjects, to consider the unique social and political context, and to bridge the gap between curriculum policy and classroom practice.

A voluntary-sector meeting place as a site for interpreting and ‘doing’ integration: a case of later-life Russian-speaking migrants

While a great deal of research has been conducted on implications of integrative policies targeted at migrants, later-life migrants and their relational and spatial negotiations and enactments of the policy-driven discourse of integration, and the dynamics under which it is interpreted remains understudied. Older migrants are presented as ‘special cases’ in the Finnish integration policy and are discussed mainly in relation to their social and health care needs. Integration is the model and aim for migrant settlements in Finland, however the aim to integrate possesses intrinsic value. Therefore, they need to make sense of what integration is for them in their everyday lives. This paper focuses on the interpretations and mundane enactments of ‘integration’ in a voluntary sector-organised meeting place for later-life Russian-speaking migrants in Finland. By comparing the views of different actors within the meeting place (steering group, organisers and attendees), the paper presents a nuanced understanding of the dynamics under which the later-life migrants negotiate their positions in the Finnish community of value, vis-à-vis the expectations of integration. The paper argues that ‘doing integration’ as a category of practice is an emergent feature in places where it is possible to negotiate integration as a lived experience. Drawing from participant observations, interviews, and applications and reports gathered in a meeting in the capital region of Finland, the paper foregrounds the lived and contested experiences of finding a sense of belonging in dialogue with the omnipresent discourse of integration. The paper concludes that the interpretations of the policy-driven discourse of integration are context-bound and negotiated in a set of relationships.

The Study of Life in Doing Theology: Overcoming the forces of death

Theology used to be regarded as the queen of the sciences; now it is alienated from the main body of academic activities, especially the natural sciences. We need theological reflection that serves all the academic disciplines, as an integral part of the study of life. Theology is needed to help overcome the reductionism of the modern sciences and the fragmentation of the full reality of life. Theology should function as an integrative discourse to build a holistic relationship among the disciplines. Two tasks will be presented: (1) The Story of Life as an integrative discourse on life; and (2) Convergence of the Eastern Wisdom of life and the modern sciences of life as a way toward multi-disciplinary methodology. In the 21st century the universal issue is life: the life of all living beings, and how to overcome the powers that destroy life, such as war, poverty, hunger, disease, political oppression, cultural desertification and ecological disruption, in the context of imperial hegemony. The global empire and the global market, organized by modern technocratic power and based on modern scientific knowledge, have created an omnicidal threat on an unprecedented scale.