ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the types of instrumental interaction and participation modes that link social practitioners and settling actors and communities with formal and informal institutional spheres in settlement society. The social work focus on Person-In-Environment (PIE) is timeless and additionally it is adaptable to different contexts in time and place. Integration means that an immigrant becomes part of society. It is a process of active connecting, featuring functional interdependence with different societal systems. Marginalization, separation and exclusion signify states of not-belonging, non-inclusion, and involuntary social peripheralization. Recognition of the vital importance of constructive connections between immigrants and public fields of civic, economic and institutional activity is critical to the integration project. Social justice is reflected in positive connectedness with settlement society, which gives access to space for human agency. Social justice in society refers to the good of the whole community.
