1st Edition
Unsettling Integration Decolonial Acts of Belonging
Foreword
Agnes Maillot
Introduction – Decolonising refugee integration paradigms: visions for a new politics of inclusion and participation in Europe and beyond
Fiona Murphy and Ulrike M. Vieten
1. Decolonizing the integration discourse through embedded narratives
Halleh Ghorashi
2. Valuing women’s spaces and communities: refugee integration in hostile environments
Amanda J. Lubit
3. Spaces of teaching and (un)learning: forced migration and volunteer-led English teaching
Lacie Raymond, Julie Daniel, Maria Loftus and Patrick Cadwell
4. Exclusionary inclusion in the German higher education system. Students designated as refugees and the coloniality of epistemic power
Lukas Engelmeier, Yasemin Karakaşoğlu, Paul Mecheril and Vanessa Ohm
5. Stories of hospitality: practising hospitality and intercultural dialogue in a University of Sanctuary context
Julie Daniel
6. Crafting in waiting: social entrepreneurship and refugee labour at the frontier
Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou and Fiona Murphy
7. Decolonizing refugee integration: challenges and pathways for addressing protracted refugee situation in Kakuma refugee camp
Gordon Ogutu
Afterword – Decoding “decolonising” in decolonising living and writing integration: commentary of the special issue on decolonising refugee paradigms
Giorgia Donà
Biography
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.
