Much is spoken of integration - seldom does anyone ask who is involved in political interventions for integration and in what way interventions are organized. The complexity and contradictions of an integration project's social life are portrayed in this book. In the process, all stakeholders get a chance to speak, case workers in the administration and young immigrant males alike. With her ethnological field work in integration policy, Barbara Kiepenheuer-Drechsler follows up on the diverse negotiations, translations, and representation strategies which constitute the social life of this policy.