Symposium: Belonging to a place or not - Immigrants' perception of place as space for Learning

This symposium aims at discussing the concepts of place and space with regard to immigrant’s perceptions and learning when arriving to a new geographical place in a new society. The symposium uses examples from research on immigrants in Sweden and Italy. The symposium is significant to the research theme as immigration is a central topic in neoliberal times. It is also relating to how place is perceived by immigrants and become spaces for learning. It also pays attention to how biographical approaches could be seen as ways of both understanding the complexity of integration as well as a way to enhance integration.