ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on exploring the ways in which people talk about integration. It outlines the idea of conviviality as a way of talking about difference. The chapter examines middle-class sample's fixation on ghettos. Before the beginning of the twenty-first century, the British State made few claims to regulate integration. Integration is often used in a normative way, to imply a one-way process of adaptation by newcomers to fit in with a dominant culture and way of life. Cultural threat is definitely the issue of culture, however loosely defined, that is a thematic hub for people's anxieties about integration. The ideas of non-integration expressed through clothing, religion and language compress ideas into space. Integration conceptualised as a simple choice to abandon cultural heritage and join in is effectively a way to both create an other and make her/him do all the work. The chapter concludes with a reading of what integration-talk accomplishes in the immigration discourse as a whole.
