How does integration materialise in interactions and practices of everyday life of residents within theirneighbourhood in a superdiverse context?

一体化是一个高度争议和政治化的概念。它有不同的，往往是相互矛盾的含义。在我的研究中，我挑战了传统的融合方法，这些方法基于将一部分融入整体，将移民融入社会，或将他们融入我们。我重新思考整合，有意识地认识到学术批评，并从探索替代概念的尝试中学习。我的目标是开发一种替代方法来研究融合，即在城市空间中超多样化人口的日常生活中发生的互动。因此，我不认为融合是移民努力获得的一个积极的最终目标。相反，我感兴趣的是将整合作为一种动态的，在人们的日常生活中不断塑造，在他们的互动和实践中具体化，并在空间中配置。由此，我得出了我的核心研究问题：在一个超级多样化的背景下，融合是如何在社区居民的日常生活互动和实践中实现的？为了解决这个问题，我开发了一种对超级多样性和社区背景敏感的方法，能够捕捉日常实践，并将居民视为融合的代理人。我的方法探索了整合的三个维度，居民的叙述，他们的实践和他们所处的空间。我将在欧洲各国首都的两个不同的市中心社区，马德里的大使馆和布鲁塞尔的莫伦贝克进行实地考察。这将包括在整个实地研究期间住在两个社区，每个社区四个月。在此期间，我将在这两个社区的每个社区与四名核心线人进行10次关于他们日常生活中经常去的空间的访谈，从访谈中选择的四个空间进行参与性观察，并与这些空间的其他用户进行10次简短的交谈。

Integration is a highly contested and politicised concept. It carries different, and often, contradictory meanings. Inmy research, I challenge conventional approaches to integration which are based on integrating a part to a whole,migrants to a society, or them to us. I rethink integration, through consciously recognising academic criticisms andlearning from attempts to explore alternative concepts. I aim to develop an alternative approach to studyingintegration as interactions taking place in the everyday life within an urban space among superdiverse population.Hence, I do not frame integration as a positive end goal migrants strive to acquire. Instead, I am interested instudying integration as a dynamic, continuously shaped in people's everyday lives, materialised in their interactionsand practices and configured within space. From this, I derive my core research question:How does integration materialise in interactions and practices of everyday life of residents within theirneighbourhood in a superdiverse context?To tackle this question, I have developed a methodology that is sensitive to superdiversity and neighbourhoodcontexts and capable of capturing everyday practices and framing the residents as agents of integration. Mymethodology explores three dimensions of integration, the narratives of the residents, their practices and thespaces in which these are situated. I will conduct fieldwork in two diverse inner-city neighbourhoods in Europeancapital cities, Embajadores in Madrid and Molenbeek in Brussels. This will involve living in the two neighbourhoodsfor the entire period of the field research, four months each. During this period, in each of the two neighbourhoods,I will conduct 10 go-alongs with four core informants to spaces they go to as part of their everyday life, participatoryobservations of four space selected from spaces visited during the go-alongs and ten brief chats with other usersof these spaces.