Generating Spaces for Inclusion Through Interdisciplinary Practices

Citation (2023), "Generating Spaces for Inclusion Through Interdisciplinary Practices", Arrocha, W. and Xeni, E. (Ed.) Migrations and Diasporas (Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 151-152. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83797-146-620231023 Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited Copyright © 2024 William Arrocha and Elena Xeni. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited Part II follows the dynamics of exclusion and inclusion. However, it recognises that as migrations and diasporas move across borders and time to find new spaces to survive, thrive and adapt to their new environments, they face many challenges. Once migrants reach the place where they will resettle, temporarily or permanently, they enter a process of negotiating their identities vis-à-vis their host communities. Such a process includes engaging in a complex learning process. They swiftly realise that they must learn new social boundaries to identify cross-cultural communication barriers. In many cases, migrants need to adapt to radically different cultures than theirs, including languages, geographies, urban spaces and time concepts. In host communities, the legal status of migrants and their national origin can determine the scope of their reception and the processes of inclusion or exclusion. There are host communities with a long history of receiving migrants that have developed Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), state and local institutions and other forms of social integration practices that can facilitate the process of including new migrants. Regarding institutions of inclusion, these can consist of state-led resettlement agencies, local government programs, schools and institutions of higher education. Regardless of the development of existing policies and practices of inclusion, host communities and migrants, including diasporas and transnational communities, will always be required to negotiate their respective cultural and spatial boundaries. Factors such as language, religion, culture, race, class and gender govern the negotiating dynamics intricately linked to host communities' dominant power structures. It is essential to recognise that a host community can also be a well-established diaspora or a transnational community with which migrants identify. Moreover, the negotiating dynamics, including the social institutions in which they occur, will have to reflect the integration policies of receiving states, either based on multiculturalism or assimilation. Regardless of the former, as the case studies in Part II will illustrate, processes of inclusion require complex pedagogies and strategies to introduce and educate migrants in a variety of new skills and knowledge to empower them as they are integrated into their social and working environments. Moreover, integration strategies include different approaches to diversity, inclusion and equality (DEI). Transnational communities and even long-lasting diasporas constantly struggle to maintain their collective cohesion as they confront changing political and socioeconomic conditions and environmental pressures. The leading organisations and associations that help keep the cohesion of diasporas and transnational communities are faced with new forms of discrimination. Moreover, they have to deal with the challenges of maintaining the core values and practices of their collective identities as new generations start generating multiple identities, complex dualities and split loyalties. As Part I, Part II is divided into two distinct sections (Pedagogies and Spaces of Assimilation, Integration and Inclusion and Diasporas as Processes of Power, Inclusion and Identity) with eight interconnected chapters. The first section focuses on the pedagogies and strategies to integrate migrants into their new contexts. The second section reflects on the power dynamics within diasporas and between the latter and other political members of their host communities. Book Chapters Prelims Introduction: Embracing Interdisciplinary Approaches to Better Understand the Challenges Facing Migrations and Diasporas Part I Moving Between Inclusion and Exclusion Practices of Inclusion Chapter 1 Expanding the Legal and Political Boundaries of ‘Sanctuary’ Through Practices of Compassionate Migration in the American Context Chapter 2 Defending Human Dignity: Redefining the European Commission's Approach to Migrant Women Chapter 3 The Experience of Syrian-Armenian Integration in the ‘Homeland’ Practices of Exclusion Chapter 4 Trump's Muslim Ban: A Social and Political History Chapter 5 Treating People as a Security Threat: Australia's Response to the Issue of Asylum Seekers Chapter 6 Dispelling the Myth of the Wealthy American Expat, or Are Americans Free to Live Outside the United States? Geographies and Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion Chapter 7 The Place of ‘Place’ in Intersectionality: Developing a Critical Place Theory Chapter 8 Climate Change Impacts, Food Insecurity and Migration: An Analysis of the Current Crisis in Honduras Part II Generating Spaces for Inclusion Through Interdisciplinary Practices Pedagogies and Spaces of Assimilation, Integration and Inclusion Chapter 9 Towards a Common Theory of Second-Generation Assimilation: Comparing US and European Studies on Education and Labour Market Integration Chapter 10 Refugee Students' Writing in a New Language: Implications for Differentiated Writing Instruction Chapter 11 Emotional Wellness, Varied Immigrant Settlement Programming in Western Canada and Service Responsiveness Chapter 12 Centre Stage to Display Case – Exhibiting Chinese Immigration in New Zealand Diasporas as Processes of Power, Inclusion and Identity Chapter 13 Tracing Stories of a Family Language: Personal Accounts of Diasporic Experience Chapter 14 Domestic Ethnicity: The Lebanese and Ukrainian Diasporas in the Host-Region of Newfoundland Chapter 15 Diaspora as Practice for Young Migrants Chapter 16 The Burden of the Rwandan Diasporic Identity: From Social Categorisation to Silencing Chapter 17 Why the Need for Interdisciplinarity to Explain the Struggles and Spaces for the Inclusion of Migrations and Diasporas? 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