The Contested Concept of ‘Integration’

Abstract A fundamental problem in the study of ‘integration’ has been a failure to separate empirical is from normative ought : that is, what happening society separately implicit assumptions on desired end-goal. crucial question, Castles et al. (2014, p. 264) write, concerns how immigrants and their descendants “can become part receiving societies nations”. This process, they note, most commonly referred as integration , “but this can imply specific idea where process should lead, so we prefer more neutral term ‘incorporation’”.