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.

• IllustrationsContributorsAcknowledgementsSabir Zazai: ForewordEsa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher and Alison Phipps: Introduction: Integration with RefugeesSection 1: Rethinking Integration  Chapter 1.1. Hyab Yohannes and Alison Phipps: Restorative Integration as a Decolonial Praxis: On Love and RageChapter 1.2. Esa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher and Alison Phipps: Re-Framing Integration as Restorative Praxis: Implications For Approach, Process and Practice Chapter 1.3. Teresa Piacentini: A Manifesto for Change: On the Ethics and Practice of Teaching and Researching Migration in the Political Now!Interventions 1a. Tawona Sitholé: Touching Care1b. Chirikure Chirikure: Thirst and Stretch Out Your Strongest Hand1c. Nii Tete Yartey: Restorative Integration as ChoreographySection 2: Communities, Integration and Inter-Cultural Communication Chapter 2.1. Pinar Aksu and Esa Aldegheri: Community Development, Resistance and Integration: Reflections on Practice and TheoryChapter 2.2. Sarah Cox: Languages of Integration – Steps Towards Ecological, Multilingual PracticesInterventions 2a. Sawsan Abdelghany: Creative Approaches to Teaching ESOL2b. Mohammad Al Khatib: Language and Integration2c. Piki Diamond: Let us Manaaki!Section 3: Place(s) For Integration Chapter 3.1. Azadeh Fatehrad and Davide Natalini: Nature-Based Integration: Unpacking Community Experiences Across the UKChapter 3.2. Pinar Aksu and Dan Fisher: The Politics of Asylum Dispersal: Testimonies of Dis-Integration in Hotel AccommodationInterventions 3a. J.E. Nurse: Mental Health in the Asylum Process and Integration3b. Will Tuladhar-Douglas: Integration and Ecological Justice3c. Brittnee Lysen: The Renaming of New Zealand to Aotearoa: Embodying a Place of RefugeSection 4: Law and The Borders of Integration Chapter 4.1. Dan Fisher and Pinar Aksu: Integration in Immigration Law: Discretion, Exclusion and a Double-Edged SwordChapter 4.2. Esa Aldegheri: A Point of Departure: Mapping and IntegrationInterventions 4a. Sekou Ouattara: Waiting Time and Integration 4b. Adam Williamson: Interpreting in the Asylum System – The Elephant in the Room4c. Kofi Anyidoho: GOODFridaySection 5: Narratives of Integration Chapter 5.1. Bethia Pearson, Sadie Ryan and Marzanna Antoniak: Integration and the Media: Reflections from a Participatory Project in GlasgowChapter 5.2. Esa Aldegheri: Education for Integration: The Importance of Narrative-Based ApproachesInterventions5a. Katherine Mackinnon: The Ambiguity of Poetry can be Liberating5b. Tawona Sitholé and Alison Phipps: Little Amal at COP265c. Hsiao-Chiang Wang (Hope): Heritage Education as a Method for Integration: Storytelling in The Antonine Wall Section 6: Improving Integration Policy  Chapter 6.1. Scot Hunter, Dan Fisher and Savan Qadir: Understanding Refugee Integration in Policymaking: Lessons from Policy ComparisonsChapter 6.2. Scot Hunter and Maggie Grant: Safety, Recovery and Belonging: Interacting Policies and Integrative Practices Encountered by Unaccompanied Children in ScotlandInterventions6a. Savan Qadir: From Uncertainty to Advocacy: Navigating the Complexity of Integration6b. Ishmail Yambasu: Education and Integration6c. Anonymous Palestinian Voice: Palestinian Voice (Arab ‘48)Section 7: Arts-Based Integration as Restorative Practice  Chapter 7.1: Catrin Evans: The Integrating Self: (Re)Construction and Self-Authorship as a Form of Creative Citizenship-FormingChapter 7.2: Alison Phipps: How Might We Approach a Powerful Stranger? Arts-Based Methods and Cultural Approaches to Refugee IntegrationInterventions7a. Lucy Cathcart-Fröden: I have more than just one name: Learning from Multilingual Creative Workshops7b. Rola Zakaria Sabab: A Personal Odyssey through the Destruction: Chronicles of Life in War-Torn Gaza7c. Francis Nyamjoh: The Pandemic’s Whimsical Lesson: A Scholarly Conversation with Creative AIAvril Bellinger: Afterword8a. Nazmi Al Masri: Salam and Peace from Gaza to All BabiesGlossaryIndex

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.

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.

• IllustrationsContributorsAcknowledgementsSabir Zazai: ForewordEsa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher and Alison Phipps: Introduction: Integration with RefugeesSection 1: Rethinking Integration  Chapter 1.1. Hyab Yohannes and Alison Phipps: Restorative Integration as a Decolonial Praxis: On Love and RageChapter 1.2. Esa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher and Alison Phipps: Re-Framing Integration as Restorative Praxis: Implications For Approach, Process and Practice Chapter 1.3. Teresa Piacentini: A Manifesto for Change: On the Ethics and Practice of Teaching and Researching Migration in the Political Now!Interventions 1a. Tawona Sitholé: Touching Care1b. Chirikure Chirikure: Thirst and Stretch Out Your Strongest Hand1c. Nii Tete Yartey: Restorative Integration as ChoreographySection 2: Communities, Integration and Inter-Cultural Communication Chapter 2.1. Pinar Aksu and Esa Aldegheri: Community Development, Resistance and Integration: Reflections on Practice and TheoryChapter 2.2. Sarah Cox: Languages of Integration – Steps Towards Ecological, Multilingual PracticesInterventions 2a. Sawsan Abdelghany: Creative Approaches to Teaching ESOL2b. Mohammad Al Khatib: Language and Integration2c. Piki Diamond: Let us Manaaki!Section 3: Place(s) For Integration Chapter 3.1. Azadeh Fatehrad and Davide Natalini: Nature-Based Integration: Unpacking Community Experiences Across the UKChapter 3.2. Pinar Aksu and Dan Fisher: The Politics of Asylum Dispersal: Testimonies of Dis-Integration in Hotel AccommodationInterventions 3a. J.E. Nurse: Mental Health in the Asylum Process and Integration3b. Will Tuladhar-Douglas: Integration and Ecological Justice3c. Brittnee Lysen: The Renaming of New Zealand to Aotearoa: Embodying a Place of RefugeSection 4: Law and The Borders of Integration Chapter 4.1. Dan Fisher and Pinar Aksu: Integration in Immigration Law: Discretion, Exclusion and a Double-Edged SwordChapter 4.2. Esa Aldegheri: A Point of Departure: Mapping and IntegrationInterventions 4a. Sekou Ouattara: Waiting Time and Integration 4b. Adam Williamson: Interpreting in the Asylum System – The Elephant in the Room4c. Kofi Anyidoho: GOODFridaySection 5: Narratives of Integration Chapter 5.1. Bethia Pearson, Sadie Ryan and Marzanna Antoniak: Integration and the Media: Reflections from a Participatory Project in GlasgowChapter 5.2. Esa Aldegheri: Education for Integration: The Importance of Narrative-Based ApproachesInterventions5a. Katherine Mackinnon: The Ambiguity of Poetry can be Liberating5b. Tawona Sitholé and Alison Phipps: Little Amal at COP265c. Hsiao-Chiang Wang (Hope): Heritage Education as a Method for Integration: Storytelling in The Antonine Wall Section 6: Improving Integration Policy  Chapter 6.1. Scot Hunter, Dan Fisher and Savan Qadir: Understanding Refugee Integration in Policymaking: Lessons from Policy ComparisonsChapter 6.2. Scot Hunter and Maggie Grant: Safety, Recovery and Belonging: Interacting Policies and Integrative Practices Encountered by Unaccompanied Children in ScotlandInterventions6a. Savan Qadir: From Uncertainty to Advocacy: Navigating the Complexity of Integration6b. Ishmail Yambasu: Education and Integration6c. Anonymous Palestinian Voice: Palestinian Voice (Arab ‘48)Section 7: Arts-Based Integration as Restorative Practice  Chapter 7.1: Catrin Evans: The Integrating Self: (Re)Construction and Self-Authorship as a Form of Creative Citizenship-FormingChapter 7.2: Alison Phipps: How Might We Approach a Powerful Stranger? Arts-Based Methods and Cultural Approaches to Refugee IntegrationInterventions7a. Lucy Cathcart-Fröden: I have more than just one name: Learning from Multilingual Creative Workshops7b. Rola Zakaria Sabab: A Personal Odyssey through the Destruction: Chronicles of Life in War-Torn Gaza7c. Francis Nyamjoh: The Pandemic’s Whimsical Lesson: A Scholarly Conversation with Creative AIAvril Bellinger: Afterword8a. Nazmi Al Masri: Salam and Peace from Gaza to All BabiesGlossaryIndex

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.

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.

• IllustrationsContributorsAcknowledgementsSabir Zazai: ForewordEsa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher and Alison Phipps: Introduction: Integration with RefugeesSection 1: Rethinking Integration  Chapter 1.1. Hyab Yohannes and Alison Phipps: Restorative Integration as a Decolonial Praxis: On Love and RageChapter 1.2. Esa Aldegheri, Dan Fisher and Alison Phipps: Re-Framing Integration as Restorative Praxis: Implications For Approach, Process and Practice Chapter 1.3. Teresa Piacentini: A Manifesto for Change: On the Ethics and Practice of Teaching and Researching Migration in the Political Now!Interventions 1a. Tawona Sitholé: Touching Care1b. Chirikure Chirikure: Thirst and Stretch Out Your Strongest Hand1c. Nii Tete Yartey: Restorative Integration as ChoreographySection 2: Communities, Integration and Inter-Cultural Communication Chapter 2.1. Pinar Aksu and Esa Aldegheri: Community Development, Resistance and Integration: Reflections on Practice and TheoryChapter 2.2. Sarah Cox: Languages of Integration – Steps Towards Ecological, Multilingual PracticesInterventions 2a. Sawsan Abdelghany: Creative Approaches to Teaching ESOL2b. Mohammad Al Khatib: Language and Integration2c. Piki Diamond: Let us Manaaki!Section 3: Place(s) For Integration Chapter 3.1. Azadeh Fatehrad and Davide Natalini: Nature-Based Integration: Unpacking Community Experiences Across the UKChapter 3.2. Pinar Aksu and Dan Fisher: The Politics of Asylum Dispersal: Testimonies of Dis-Integration in Hotel AccommodationInterventions 3a. J.E. Nurse: Mental Health in the Asylum Process and Integration3b. Will Tuladhar-Douglas: Integration and Ecological Justice3c. Brittnee Lysen: The Renaming of New Zealand to Aotearoa: Embodying a Place of RefugeSection 4: Law and The Borders of Integration Chapter 4.1. Dan Fisher and Pinar Aksu: Integration in Immigration Law: Discretion, Exclusion and a Double-Edged SwordChapter 4.2. Esa Aldegheri: A Point of Departure: Mapping and IntegrationInterventions 4a. Sekou Ouattara: Waiting Time and Integration 4b. Adam Williamson: Interpreting in the Asylum System – The Elephant in the Room4c. Kofi Anyidoho: GOODFridaySection 5: Narratives of Integration Chapter 5.1. Bethia Pearson, Sadie Ryan and Marzanna Antoniak: Integration and the Media: Reflections from a Participatory Project in GlasgowChapter 5.2. Esa Aldegheri: Education for Integration: The Importance of Narrative-Based ApproachesInterventions5a. Katherine Mackinnon: The Ambiguity of Poetry can be Liberating5b. Tawona Sitholé and Alison Phipps: Little Amal at COP265c. Hsiao-Chiang Wang (Hope): Heritage Education as a Method for Integration: Storytelling in The Antonine Wall Section 6: Improving Integration Policy  Chapter 6.1. Scot Hunter, Dan Fisher and Savan Qadir: Understanding Refugee Integration in Policymaking: Lessons from Policy ComparisonsChapter 6.2. Scot Hunter and Maggie Grant: Safety, Recovery and Belonging: Interacting Policies and Integrative Practices Encountered by Unaccompanied Children in ScotlandInterventions6a. Savan Qadir: From Uncertainty to Advocacy: Navigating the Complexity of Integration6b. Ishmail Yambasu: Education and Integration6c. Anonymous Palestinian Voice: Palestinian Voice (Arab ‘48)Section 7: Arts-Based Integration as Restorative Practice  Chapter 7.1: Catrin Evans: The Integrating Self: (Re)Construction and Self-Authorship as a Form of Creative Citizenship-FormingChapter 7.2: Alison Phipps: How Might We Approach a Powerful Stranger? Arts-Based Methods and Cultural Approaches to Refugee IntegrationInterventions7a. Lucy Cathcart-Fröden: I have more than just one name: Learning from Multilingual Creative Workshops7b. Rola Zakaria Sabab: A Personal Odyssey through the Destruction: Chronicles of Life in War-Torn Gaza7c. Francis Nyamjoh: The Pandemic’s Whimsical Lesson: A Scholarly Conversation with Creative AIAvril Bellinger: Afterword8a. Nazmi Al Masri: Salam and Peace from Gaza to All BabiesGlossaryIndex

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.