Abstract
The topicality of the issue on communities being restructured as a result of migration
processes, in particular in Europe nowadays, leads to academic discussions on
identity transformations under the pressure of the migrations, as well as to
integration rethinking. The approach to integration has changed significantly, and
the idea of the Other as an individual or a group in need of being adjusted to the
social-cultural space of We has faded away, while being substituted by the recent
shift from diversity to superdiversity, the nation-focused models of integration
considered outdated. Integration emerges as a relation-based process aimed at
communicative and discoursive discovering of the social and cultural markers
disclosing the possibilities for citizens to reach social cohesion advantages, without
the latter being instrumentally imposed through unifying efforts of those in power.
The article dwells upon the questions, issues and conclusions of the recent discussion
“Who needs integration?”; and the discoursive aspect of integration based on D-
principle and migration-related aspects of its implementation has been paid due
attention as well. Static and dynamic identity issues have been studied in the context
of conflict-related migration situation in Ukraine. The challenges and practical
discourses implying integration have been reviewed through the surveys’ data, 2017-
2019, on the protracted displacement, relations between displaced persons and host
communities, tolerance and civic engagement. Post-conflict reintegration problems
have been outlined in the conclusions, through the issues on “return vs. integration”
choice, “red lines”, and educational means and limitations of influence on the
restructured communities, – as the perspectives for further research in the framework
of the study.