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Marriage Migration and Integration

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Enquiry into the impact of transnational marriage on ‘integration’ requires clarity on the nature of integration processes and on the many factors known from earlier research to impact on them. Only in this way can we identify the potential relevance of marriage with a partner from abroad among the many other factors at play. In this chapter we set out our distinct, holistic definition of integration; and a heuristic model of integration processes across structural, social, cultural and civic political domains, and in relation to identity, on which our research design and analysis is based. The model highlights the importance of ‘effectors’ that can facilitate or impede integration processes, identified in the empirical data presented in later chapters.

This chapter takes forward analysis first published in Spencer, S., & Charsley, K. (2016). Conceptualising integration: A framework for empirical research, taking marriage migration as a case study. Comparative Migration Studies, 4(18).

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  1. School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Katharine Charsley

  2. Bristol, UK

    Marta Bolognani

  3. Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Evelyn Ersanilli

  4. Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Sarah Spencer

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Charsley, K., Bolognani, M., Ersanilli, E., Spencer, S. (2020). Understanding Integration. In: Marriage Migration and Integration. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40252-5_2

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