Epilogue: What is lurking behind migrant integration?

Abstract

This chapter discusses the contributions to this edited volume and place their findings on the scientific map. One of the common denominators of the chapters is that they consider immigrant integration as place-dependent, relational, dialogical, intercultural, and transnational. Moreover, they are likely to challenge the prevailing assumption that the nation-state is the norm, and that the newcomers are totally different from the national body. The chapters are rather tuned with a translocal and transnational turn that has become prevalent in migration studies since the 1990s. This volume displays what is lurking behind migrant integration by underlining migrants' attachments to the local places they reside in © Edward Elgar Publishing 2023.