Publications   Migration and Integration  Bachinger/Schenk

The integration lie. Responses to a hysterically fuelled argument. (Deuticke-Verlag Vienna 2011).

Few other debates are as emotionally and unobjectively charged as the question of integration of “human beings with an immigration background”. The writers show in their informed and provocative book that integration is a question of social hierarchy and the most important feature that distinguishes people is money. So instead of education, the work market or opportunities for advancement we discuss cultural peculiarities and religious affiliation. The writers provide reports from the everyday lives of people who have come to Berlin, Zürich or Vienna and have been confronted less with cultural than with social problems.