Abstract
Migration law and integration policy have progressively abandoned the assumption that integration can be understood as a unilateral process in which migrants alone are expected to adapt to an otherwise static receiving society. European policy has...
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Abstract
Migration law and integration policy have progressively abandoned the assumption that integration can be understood as a unilateral process in which migrants alone are expected to adapt to an otherwise static receiving society. European policy has long described integration as a dynamic and two-way process of mutual accommodation, while a substantial body of sociological literature has emphasised the interaction between individual trajectories, institutional opportunities, social connections and structural conditions. Nevertheless, the recognition that integration is relational has not entirely resolved a different and less frequently examined question: whether the reciprocal nature of the process should also imply a corresponding symmetry in the attribution of responsibility whenever integration succeeds, fails or remains incomplete.
This paper proposes the concept of relational asymmetry of integration as a means of addressing that problem. The central argument is that rec
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