Depuis août 2023, avec l’entrée en vigueur de la loi sur le vivre-ensemble interculturel, le Ministère de la Famille, des Solidarités, du Vivre-ensemble et de l’Accueil a officiellement remplacé la notion d’intégration par celle de « vivre-ensemble interculturel ». Cette nouvelle terminologie est présentée comme plus égalitaire, plus respectueuse de la diversité, dans un pays où près de la moitié de la population (47,3 %) est de nationalité étrangère. Mais est-ce vraiment le cas ?

Dans les deux épisodes que je consacre à ces notions, je révèle ce que ce glissement sémantique opéré par l’État luxembourgeois dissimule réellement – et pourquoi ni l’intégration, ni le vivre-ensemble ne permettent, en réalité, de penser la justice sociale et l’égalité.

La partie 1 est consacrée à la critique du concept d'intégration.
Ressources:

Spencer, S., Charsley, K. Reframing ‘integration’: acknowledging and addressing five core critiques. CMS 9 , 18 (2021). :                         https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00226-4
 

Rytter, M. (2018). Writing Against Integration: Danish Imaginaries of Culture, Race and Belonging. Ethnos , 84 (4), 678–697. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1458745
 

Les statistiques sur la population luxembourgeoise selon la nationalité : https://statistiques.public.lu/fr/recensement/nationalites.html
Gérald Arboit. Le rôle de gendarmes dans l’avènement du renseignement au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (1913-1961). Flavio Carbone (ed.). Forza alla legge. Studi sui carabinieri, gendarmerie e polizie armate, 14, Società Italiana di Storia Militare, pp.225-262, 2023:
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Le texte Histoire des immigrations  au Luxembourg (XIXe-XXIe siècles) dans le dossier paru lors de la célébration du 25e anniversaire du Département des Immigrés du syndicat OGBL
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Gérard Calot, La démographie du Luxembourg: passé, présent et avenir: rapport au président du gouvernement, cahiers économiques, no. 56, série D, Statec, Luxembourg, septembre 1978. 
 

L’article de Núria Garcia dans la revue forum, « La « nationalisation » de la langue luxembourgeoise » :
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Saïd Bouamama, Des classes dangereuses à l’ennemi intérieur. Capitalisme, immigrations, racisme. Paris. Syllepse. 2021.

#4 Intégration et vivre-ensemble, des concepts coloniaux ? 1/2

LocalHero säsong 3 avsnitt 26:

Vi är fortfarande i Scandic Sankt Jörgen i Malmö och nu samtalar vi med eldsjälen Carolina Calderon.

Carolina Calderon Kultur & integration:

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Vi samtalar om:

Om hennes brinnande engagemang för mänskliga rättigheter, att göra skillnad och inspirera.
Om komma ifrån Chile, om diktaturen militärkuppen och känslan av att vara förtryck.
Om sin nyfikenhet på individen inre värld.
Om Gustavo Nazar.
Att se möjligheter och lyfta positivitet.
Om hennes familj politisk engagemang i Chile.
Att skapa förutsättningar.
Att man utvecklas genom sorg och om empati.
Om integrationsfrågor och artister ifrån olika länder.
Att vara pedagog, artist och driver eget företag.
Om RFSU.
Om Carolina Calderon Kultur & Integration som lyfter sin kultur men också kultur i från hela världen. Ett mångfald och inkluderande plats.
Om rasismen.
Att jobba som konsult på folkhögskola.
Om integration, kulturkrock och fördomar.
Om mobbning och offret.
Om Eldsjälsdagarna som grundade av Charbel Gabro.
Om alla dessa eldsjälar som Nour Habib, Noomi Sundström och Tobias Valdebenito.
Om man utvecklas inte om livet vore en fest hela tiden.

Om det inre barnet, att bryta lite normer och att hantera sina egna brister och sorg. 
Att vara egen terapeut.
Att utvecklas tillsammans som lärare och barn.
Om nomineringen Känslovisionär 2021 på Känslogalan.
Om kulturstaden Malmö.
Om Los Calderon och att vikten med sprida kärlek.
Om Örebro händelsen, musiken och Tomas Gunnarsson.





"Jag vill ha kärlek i mitt liv" - Carolina Calderon

Now comes the prophecy. After collapse, after death, after darkness, something new begins. A radiant being—the Purple Fox—will emerge. Androgynous and awake, student and teacher, this entity will shake the Dragoon’s grip on the world of Akash. Ylias will panic. The system will resist. It will not matter.

In Mercenarium, Visionaire is the inverse of The Shade—teleporting your own units into new territory. Send forth your most courageous scout. In Dragonfruit, it represents courage and integrity, as in those brave enough to face uncertainty. Its reversal warns: don’t let your vision become your vanity.

Visionaire is a another glassy track, this time with breakbeat textures composed in collaboration with my oldest creative partner, Baqbeet.

LYRICS

Secondary visionaire
Like there’s something in the air
Commuting systems into solitary
Solutions, like energy in motion
Let it sink into the ocean of design

Visionary eyes are ever useful
In the dark
Lay down, let this verse submit its curses
To the stars
To the stars

Secondary visionary
Prismatic eyes
Calculated, complicated
Ocean of design
Vicious and capricious men have
Only just begun to end and
Soon the runes will synthesize
Our lives

Visionary eyes are ever useful
In the darkness
Lay down, let this verse unleash its curses
To the stars
To the stars
To the stars
To the stars

Visionaire

When we resist learning the lessons meant for us, the pain teacher lovingly redirects. <3

The Pain Teacher

LocalHero säsong 3 avsnitt 31:

Vi är fortfarande i Scandic no 53 i Stockholm och samtalar med basketspelare Klaudia Lukacovicova.

Vi samtalar om:

Att jobba inom Kriminalvården och med transporter.
Att komma ifrån Slovakien, då fick hon sina första kontrakt som basketspelare och att få många erbjudande.
Att flytta som 14 år till en annan stad för basket och vara med i en känd basketklubb.
Om svårigheter att vara ifrån familjen och flytta utomlands som 19 år och vara i Italien.
Att basket har inte varit hennes dröm och att alla bestämde att hon skulle spela basket.
Om hennes riktiga intresse är fotboll.
att vara 192 cm lång och att det är en fördel att vara lång.
Att alltid vara tacksam.
Om det tuffare kultur och anpassa sig.
Om hennes bakgrund.
Om mobbningen i skolan, i omklädningsrummet  och i basket.
Om mycket avundsjuka.
Om stöd och hjälp fanns inte.
Om hennes mamma och pappa.
Om svårigheter att hitta sig själv och att ha fler killvänner.
Om ångest och flera gånger sluta på basket.
Om olika talang till sport och dans.
Om samtal med psykolog, om identitet och att inte tillhöra någon.

Att det tar tid att samtala och bygga relationer.
Om rätt person på rätt plats.
Om barnperspektivet.
Om integrationen till Sverige.
Om AIK Basket.
Att dejta tjejer.
Om drömjobbet som är att bli polis.





"Min största förebild är jag själv" - Klaudia Lukacovicova

This is my vision for successful integration of Islam in the UK. We gotta have some big talks about where Islam is at odds / completely different from the western values and we need to all decide what to do moving forward. basically the UK has values that need respecting and if the muslims want to change that such as the age of consent to be much lower like seen in Sharia law everyone in the UK needs to be aware of the values of the followers of Islam and we all need to decide together what to do. I am calling for open conversations on our values.

HARMONY IN THE UK - Lil Truth

Yea Sharia Law is at odds with the western way of life ina few big ways. There are many Muslims calling for Shariah law in the UK. I don't think that is wise because many of the reasons people leave their home countries for the UK is due to our laws regarding freedom of expression. Unfortunately that means people can use their freedom of expression to express support for ideas that would supress the freedom of expression. Interesting thought right! 

Anyway lmk what u guys think especially if you are a Muslim, do you understand, do you respect my viewpoint, do you agree, do you disagree. Let me know!

Dear Muslims - Lil Truth

This episode is a recording of the opening keynote address Prof David Gramling delivered at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. Here is the abstract:

Good News

Bernice Johnson Reagon once sang for us a corrective teaching, along the lines that: “It’s ‘good news’ when you reject things as they are. […] And they don’t say ‘it’s good times’, they say ‘it’s good news’.” Fifty years later, these are definitely not good times. And, in this powerfully strange moment, even looking around for ‘good news’ often feels inappropriately consolational, often at fatal odds with the dreads and taunts of today’s geopolitical realism. This opening talk for our Spring School welcomes in the resources of “untimely optimism” (Feldman 2023), “out-of-phasedness” (Doumani 2007), “gramáticas de lo inaudito” (Acosta López 2023) and “anticipatory illuminations” (Bloch in Zipes 2019), in hopes of making room for a peace-in-this-time whose living vitality is the opposite of resigned quietism. To that end, we will meet head-on a few of the nightmares-of-the-self that may well haunt a peace-lover in Spring of 2025, seeking to expel that haunt and conjure in its place some unprecedented good news.

For the full show notes, including David's biography, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

E80 - Good News by David Gramling

@nikaojyoti

Aqui na Terra means “Here on Earth”—a reminder that healing doesn’t ask you to rise, but to land in presence, to let your voice belong.

This piece is an offering.
A tender opening of an intimate space — raw, present, and true.

Born in one take, unpolished and whole, this recording invites the listener not into performance, but into presence. It is a sacred sharing, not to impress — but to express what is real, felt, and true in the moment of sound.

It’s a field, a feeling, a place to come home to.

A deeply personal offering meant to be shared communally—to resonate in the hearts of others, not held alone. It is medicine in the form of music, and it longs to be received in stillness, in ritual, or in everyday moments where truth is welcome.

Here on Earth
Where the voice finds root, and the heart finds rest.

If this touched you, let it touch someone else too.
The song wants to be heard. The space wants to be shared.



Niko & Tom - Aqui Na Terra

In this episode, Julie Ward, former MEP with a background in activism, talks about the Durham-based 'No To Hassockfield' campaign. Hassockfield is the site of an Immigration Removal Centre and the campaign was fighting for its closure, uses creative arts as a powerful tool to raise awareness of the harms caused by asylum detention and the need to provide community alternatives, whilst also providing a culture of care for the campaigners. 

This presentation was recorded at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2025. This event gets hosted annually in person in Glasgow, Scotland in May and online in October. The next edition is due on 27-31 October 2025.

For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

The Sounds of the Spring School

Julie Ward on the No To Hassockfield campaign

E81 - Julie Ward on the No To Hassockfield campaign

I'm on a mad one atm. High T type shit. Greatest fighting series ever with my music continuing shortly on my platforms, click the links below...

Local Hero är en podd om förebilder och eldsjälar där vi intervjuar personer som brinner för det de gör, inspirerar och gör något gott i världen. Dessa personer har olika yrken, sysselsättningar och professioner. Det kan vara stort som smått men något gott.  Antonio och Nils är två kollegor från en förskola, tycker inte att detta ska tas för givet och vill därmed lyfta dessa människor, sprida ljus och hopp samt inspirera andra.

Producer/DJ/Sound System

Love/Light, Light/Love

Sound Carrier · Architect of Resonance 𓂀 Archivar

Xuqutopi doesn’t make music —
he opens fields.

At the threshold between downtempo, techno, and medicine sound,
his work isn’t a genre.
It’s memory—folded into tone.

Each piece is a resonance chamber:
not for entertainment, but remembrance.
Not to impress — to return.

Woven with frequencies from sacred sites,
tuned through stillness across India, Portugal, and Ecuador,
his sound isn’t performed.
It’s allowed.

Born in Austria, based near Graz,
but the field is nonlocal.
It activates wherever listening becomes presence.

Whether in ceremony, on the dancefloor,
or at the final stage of mastering —
he listens for one thing:
the tone that helps you remember who you are.

“I don’t create music.
I open sonic space—
where memory becomes tone.”

Welcome to the podcast series of the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts (RILA) at the University of Glasgow. 

We bring you sounds to make you think about integration, languages, culture, society and identity. A collection of academic musings, poetry, lesser heard voices and personal stories for you to enjoy and expand you horizons with. In short: a podcast for everyone with stories from the world, about the world, released fortnightly.

We work in collaboration with Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) and its partners. Together, our aim is to promote creative, practical multilingual action for change at all levels of society to build capacity in research and action focused on fostering cultural expressions of heritage and diversity with displaced peoples, and academic freedom for those at risk.

Please subscribe to get notified of new episodes coming out! Full show notes can be found on the University of Glasgow's UNESCO RILA pages: bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration

Mythic synthpop for the end of the world.

Anthromancer is the sonic wing of a transmedia myth created by Daniel James Drake—a fusion of game, oracle, and concept album. The debut LP, The Hymnal, scores the fall and rebirth of a fictional civilization, blending icy electronica with poetry into a 13-track spiritual epic.

Our sound is somewhere between The Postal Service, Muse, Aesop Rock, and Nobuo Uematsu, with shades of Röyksopp and our venerable RPG nostalgia. The sound is cinematic, existential, and driven by a hunger to be known.

Support the work through Patreon. Or just listen closely. The secrets are already in the songs.

New tracks tagged #Integration