Unsettling Integration

Fiona Murphy is an Anthropologist and Assistant Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland. Her research focuses on displacement, migration, and environmental change, with a particular emphasis on refugee experiences in Ireland and Turkey. She has also worked with Australia’s ‘Stolen Generation.’ Dr. Murphy’s interdisciplinary work bridges anthropology, creative writing, and advocacy, exploring themes of identity, justice, and belonging.Ulrike M. Vieten is a transnational sociologist and Associate Professor at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, specializing in the historical construction and transformation of racialized group boundaries in and beyond Europe. She has published eight books; the latest, Loss and Liquid Citizenship in Europe: The Postmigration Condition in an Age of Populism (with Routledge), in 2025. Dr. Vieten has held various research grants focusing on displacement, minority EU citizens, refugees, and loss, e.g., working internationally with colleagues in Turkey, Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Australia, and India.

• Foreword by Agnes Maillot Introduction – Decolonising refugee integration paradigms: visions for a new politics of inclusion and participation in Europe and beyond 1. Decolonizing the integration discourse through embedded narratives 2. Valuing women’s spaces and communities: refugee integration in hostile environments 3. Spaces of teaching and (un)learning: forced migration and volunteer-led English teaching 4. Exclusionary inclusion in the German higher education system. Students designated as refugees and the coloniality of epistemic power 5. Stories of hospitality: practising hospitality and intercultural dialogue in a University of Sanctuary context 6. Crafting in waiting: social entrepreneurship and refugee labour at the frontier 7. Decolonizing refugee integration: challenges and pathways for addressing protracted refugee situation in Kakuma refugee camp Afterword – Decoding “decolonising” in decolonising living and writing integration: commentary of the special issue on decolonising refugee paradigms