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A Place for Integration: Refugee Experiences in Two English Cities

Platts‐Fowler, Deborah, Robinson, David·2015·Population, Space and Place
DOI 10.1002/psp.1928
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This paper seeks to inject an appreciation of place into analysis of refugee integration. A framework of integration sensitive to interactions between people and places is operationalised to facilitate the systematic comparison of the refugee integration process in different places. In particular, this paper explores variations in key indicators of integration within a cohort of refugees arriving into the UK from the same country of origin (Iraq), at the same time, granted the same legal status and afforded a similar package of support and assistance but settled in two cities in England (Hull and Sheffield). Variations in the integration experiences of refugees in the two cities are spotlighted and related to the contextual, compositional, and collective aspects of the places into which they were settled. The findings highlight the importance of recognising that refugee integration is grounded and embodied in space and place and that despite proceeding under the same general operative processes, can evolve in distinctive ways in different places. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Housing represents a critical element of migrants' experiences, which can have a determining effect on other outcomes.

    “Housing represents a critical element of migrants ' experiences, which can have a determining effect on other outcomes (Diacon et al. , 2008; Platts-Fowler & Robinson, 2015).”

    From The experience of precarity: low-paid economic migrants’ housing in Manchester (2023) · cites this paper as Platts-Fowler & Robinson, 2015

    In “Integration experiences of Iraqi refugees in Hull and Sheffield” (page unavailable), refugees describe how the location of their housing made it harder to reach shops, friends and family, supporting the importance of housing to their experiences. But the paper says it could not establish a direct causal link between local conditions and other integration outcomes. It therefore does not establish the claimed determining effect, and its study concerns refugees rather than migrants generally. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  1. Lewis H. 2010. events. Journal of Refugee Studies. 23 : 571-588
  2. Mestheneos E, Ioannidi E. 2002. Obstacles to refugee integration in the European Union Member States. Journal of Refugee Studies . 15 : 304 -320
  3. Phillips D, Athwal B, Harrison M, Robinson D. 2014. Building better community relations in areas of new migration in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and migration Studies . 40 : 42-59

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Authors
Platts‐Fowler, D., & Robinson, D.
Affiliations
  • University of Leeds (GB)
  • Sheffield Hallam University (GB)
Corresponding author
Robinson, David
ORCID
Robinson, David
Venue
Population, Space and Place
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2015-05-10
Volume
21
Issue
5
Pages
476-491
ISSN
  • 1544-8444 (ISSN-L)
  • 1544-8452
DOI
10.1002/psp.1928
OpenAlex
W2147659050
Cited by
85
References
52
Citations by year
2025: 4 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1
FWCI
15.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • Population Space and Place (publishedVersion)
  • White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (acceptedVersion)
  • SHURA (Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive) (Sheffield Hallam University) (acceptedVersion)
  • SHURA (Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive) (Sheffield Hallam University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Social Sciences › Education › Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
Keywords
refugee integration, Iraqi refugees, Hull, Sheffield, urban settlement, integration indicators

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