RETHINKING INTEGRATION: APPLYING THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH TO IMMIGRANT INCORPORATION
by Eva Fortes
[A selection of portraits showing modern, young, ethnically diverse people.]
Researchers and policymakers are using integration as a benchmark to assess the life trajectories of migrants and their descendants; despite concerns that integration is an ill-defined and underdeveloped concept, with underlying nationalist and colonialist foundations.
This paper uses an interdisciplinary perspective to consider the drawbacks of the traditional integration paradigm, and proposes quality of life, using the capabilities approach, as a viable alternative.
📑 In the debate around #immigration, the traditional benchmark of successful integration remains unchallenged, despite criticism.
EthnicGoods team member, Eva Fortes, interviewed people with a #migration background in Barcelona through a new perspective: #capabilities.
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