Manifestations and Contestations of Borders and Boundaries in Everyday Understandings of Integration

Fischer, Carolin (2020). Manifestations and Contestations of Borders and Boundaries in Everyday Understandings of Integration Migration Letters, 17(4), pp. 531-540. 10.33182/ml.v17i4.836

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This articleasks how borders and boundaries manifest themselves in understandings of integration. Drawing on qualitative interviews with migrant descendants living in Zürich, Switzerland, it investigates how understandings of integration are experienced, interpreted, appropriated and modified, in relation to either the self or others. I employ de Certeau’s theory of the practice of everyday life to establish how borders and boundaries are reflected in individual meaning-making, perceptions of self and other andthe ways in which people situate themselves in society. I demonstrate not only that the interplay between borders and boundaries informs specific aspects of migration governance such as integration policies, but also that people employ tactics based on enunciations of integration to act upon the social position they are allocated as a result of ascribed, racialised markers of difference.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	School of Social Work > Institute for Social and Cultural Diversity School of Social Work BFH Centres and strategic thematic fields > Thematic field "Caring Society"
Name:	Fischer, Carolin0000-0002-5995-5114
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
ISSN:	1741-8984
Language:	English
Submitter:	Carolin Fischer
Date Deposited:	29 Jan 2024 14:35
Last Modified:	29 Jan 2024 14:35
Publisher DOI:	10.33182/ml.v17i4.836
Uncontrolled Keywords:	borders; boundaries; practice of everyday life; integration
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.20985
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/20985