ABSTRACT
Some sort of integration is a good thing if it can be defined as an open set of different types of engagement from taking an interest in one’s surroundings and the people there and their practices and values to different types of active engagement. Despite polarised views derived from an idealised grand narrative of the West they had been brought up with, there was evidence that they: succeeded in finding their own creative ways of overcoming those challenges and being themselves without trying to integrate or assimilate. The possibility of hybrid integration has enabled an opening up in the understanding of children with migration backgrounds in European education settings. It resonates strongly with the discussion in this book because finding it requires the same struggle against prevailing large-culture blocks about the fixity of childhood. Project facilitators therefore had to apply creative workshop methods to allow the children’s personal narratives to become visible under the heading of deCentred third-space methodology.
