Abstract

In this article, I advocate the reconceptualisation of ‘integration as a two-way process’. I argue that integration is, fundamentally, an issue of relational inequality, and conceptualising it as a one-way process constitutes problems of undesirability and infeasibility. I show the theoretical hiatus which characterises many dominant approaches to the two-way process, which leads scholars to build their work on internal contradictions and to implicitly (and often unintentionally) feed into a one-way integration discourse. I argue that as long as conceptualisations of integration as a two-way process reinforce a boundary between ‘people who integrate’ and ‘people who do not integrate’, they are unfit to avoid the problems of one-wayness which they intended to overcome in the first place. In the last part of the article, I put forward some initial building blocks for a new theoretical framework of ‘integration as a two-way process’ which is more attentive to the relational social processes that constitute integration.

中文翻译：

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重新概念化“作为双向过程的集成”

摘要

在本文中，我主张重新概念化“作为双向过程的集成”。我认为，从根本上说，整合是一个关系不平等的问题，将其概念化为一个单向过程构成了不可取和不可行的问题。我展示了一种表征双向过程的许多主要方法的理论中断，这导致学者们将他们的工作建立在内部矛盾上，并含蓄地（并且通常是无意地）进入单向整合话语。我认为，只要将整合作为双向过程的概念化强化了“整合的人”和“不整合的人”之间的界限，他们就不适合避免他们打算克服的单向性问题。第一名。在文章的最后一部分，