What does it mean to integrate someone - and into what, exactly, are they expected to integrate?

Drawing on dialogues with 'integrators' - professionals tasked with helping migrants, refugees, and other marginalised individuals 'become part of society' - reveals that integration is more than a policy; it is a complex, lived, and often contradictory practice. Here, the work of integrators in Sweden and Hungary is examined.

Framed through Chantal Mouffe's account of the democratic paradox, and drawing on Gadamer, Arendt, Sch