ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses an overview of key contributions to immigrants' integration conceptions among the mainstream academic literature. Both in the academic sphere and the mass media, the word 'immigration' is often uncritically linked to 'integration' issues, taking for granted that those who migrate always face more problems of integration than the rest of the population. Some social scientists broadened the typology of integration. Thus, Landecker developed one typology on the premise that for sociological purposes the smallest units of group life are the cultural standards on the one hand, and the persons and their behaviour, on the other. From this premise, he found three varieties: integration among cultural standards, integration among persons, and integration between cultural standards and the behaviour of persons. In a work on the integration of modern societies, the sociologist Josetxo Beriain analyses from a dual perspective systemic integration versus social integration.
