Working within self-organised groups in the field of migration and integration where many of integration problems are being solved, has driven me to explore this topic further. Migrants motives for self-organisation and working within such communities as well as the functioning of these structures and collaboration of individuals within them, have been researched through the concepts of solidarity, self-organisation and integration. The research has been conducted using a qualitative method, namely four semi-structured interviews carried out with an asylum seeker, two persons with refugee status and an activist with a migrant background. In doing so, I found that there are differences between activists and migrants in their perception of the base of self-organised communities. The former are organised more around political activism while the latter are organised around solidarity. The structures and functioning of such communities are based on egalitarianism, however, the structure and functioning of those make no sense to migrants. This is also one of the reasons why there is friction within these communities, subsequent disintegrations and the organisation of new groups. Asylum seekers and refugees largely solve integration problems in informal ways, including within self-organised communities.
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