The integration of migrants into their new countries and communities has been an issue of political importance for some time
Another set of issues that emerged in this research was what refugees integrate into, and also what they feel they integrate into. As already mentioned, the space into which people feel they integrate is of utmost importance. Most respondents felt that the unit into which they were integrating was a small spatial one. Integration was seen to happen in neighbourhoods rather than in a nation state or to a set of assumed values and behaviours as the UK Government appears to believe7 . The vast majority of respondents subsequently have no plans to leave the city they live in. Indeed some of those who in Survey 1 had contemplated leaving later changed their mind as they developed a sense of belonging to their area.