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‘The Only Thing I Like Integrated Is My Coffee’: Dissensus and Migrant Integration in the Era of Euro-Crisis

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Contesting Integration, Engendering Migration

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The sardonic remark about ‘integrated coffee’ belongs, of course, to Malcolm X. The European Union today has the integration of migrants as a major issue in its policy agenda, at the time of the greatest crisis hitting capitalism since the 1930s: it is somehow ironic that the con- troversy over migrants’ integration is one the most controversial issues during a crisis threatening the disintegration of the Eurozone.

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    Nicos Trimikliniotis (Associate Professor of Law and Sociology)

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Trimikliniotis, N. (2014). ‘The Only Thing I Like Integrated Is My Coffee’: Dissensus and Migrant Integration in the Era of Euro-Crisis. In: Anthias, F., Pajnik, M. (eds) Contesting Integration, Engendering Migration. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137294005_4

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