Parenting of millennial Muslims in the age of the War on Terror demanded levels of awareness that immigrant parents often didn’t have the capacity for. Integration, then, in the context of were you integrated enough to stop your kids from joining ISIS, involved layers of proficiencies, abilities, awareness, and confidence that were gained from many different directions: socioeconomic advancement, education, language skills, access to adequately provided social services, involvement in public life. But to the government, integration had come to mean acceptance of “British values,” full stop.
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