Is it possible to enhance or challenge the models of integration processes based on the perceptions that migrant communities have of their own integration? The proposed Mixed Integration Model (MIM) intends to clarify and understand the processes of integration through a multi-method approach based on a classical, virtual, and multi-sited ethnographic methodology. Applying the MIM, this paper studies the lifestyles of three different communities (Ecuadorians in Madrid, Salvadorans in Boston, and Moroccans in Valladolid). The MIM identifies three migrant archetypes deeply rooted, compulsive, and audacious each of whom experience integration in a particular way. © 2018, Fondazione Centro Studi Emigrazione. All rights reserved.

Transnational families Spain Morocco Immigrant integration United States

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