Ethnographic Paper On Refugees

For my ethnographic research, I am planning on observing, how it is that the ongoing crisis in Middle Eastern countries such as, Syria and Lebanon, has propelled their citizens, to escape and seek refuge elsewhere. In most cases they have sought refuge in the European continent. These refugees have arrived in many different countries, such as Italy, Netherlands, England, Greece, Estonia, and Spain. I consulted 6 different sources of literature that portray what the situation for these asylum seekers is in each of those countries, focusing mainly on the integration of these immigrants in the normal European society of each particular country. I will attempt to use the information learned in the different ethnographic pieces I read, so that I …show more content…
Therefore, the lack of state sanctioned attempts to integrate the people, led them to rely on their own personal skills in finding their way in Italian society. In the Netherlands, refugees became more adept in the economic world, while those in Italy became more involved socially, In other words, “the refugees approach integration as the process of building ‘bridging social capital’ while not abandoning the idea of nourishing ties with their native cultures or roots” …show more content…
Mainstreaming being seen as something that goes from specific to generic, looks to make migrant integration more generic and less based on each case. Therefore, “there has been a clear trend towards more mainstreamed governance and towards generic policies. However, such policies rarely involve efforts to create a generic awareness of migration-related diversity, and are often overshadowed by broader national narratives on migrant integration, and pre-existing governance structures” . Unfortunately, mainstreaming is only capable of partially explaining policy and governance trends, and may be eclipsed where pre-existing and fixed governance structures, or strong national narratives or integration models, are found. Therefore, it depends for each country how easy it is to identify the trend of mainstreaming integration, as well as how important drivers such as overcoming previous inadequacies, such as lack of diversity are seen to be. Socio-cultural integration varies widely depending on the country where the migrants arrived to, since Migration trends are highly dynamic and the recent period has seen a transformation of migration to Europe. To adequately understand the level of adaptation that the migrants have had in the receiving country, it is useful to keep data on “their language acquisition, the role of religiosity in finding a job, group differences in identification and acculturation, and