A Handbook of Integration with Refugees - by Esa Aldegheri & Dan Fisher & Alison Phipps (Paperback)

About the Book

This book brings together the voices of academics, practitioners, and people seeking sanctuary to explore the processes of refugee integration. Situated in learnings from Scotland, the book offers theoretical, creative and practical responses for a wide international audience.

Book Synopsis

This book brings together the voices of academics, practitioners, and people seeking sanctuary to explore the processes of refugee integration. Situated in learnings from Scotland, the book offers theoretical, creative and practical responses for a wide international audience.

Review Quotes

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.

This Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland offers much more than its title suggests. It is a passionate, critical, and unashamedly political take on the much-maligned concept of integration. Across 36 analytical chapters and creative interventions this is a collection which completely reframes how we understand integration. A must read.

About the Author

Esa Aldegheri is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK, investigating how unequal narratives and bordering of refugee journeys affect processes of integration. Her previous research supported the development of the third New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy. As a multilingual scholar, writer and educator she is also active in interdisciplinary projects beyond academia.

Dan Fisher is a political geographer and a research associate at the Centre for Public Policy, University of Glasgow, UK. His areas of interest are the practices of border control, processes of asylum determination and the governance of refugee integration. Dan has engaged widely with the policy community, including through his work with UNESCO-RILA, which contributed to the development of the third New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy in 2024.

Alison Phipps holds the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow, where she is also Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies.