s possible to maintain membership in more than one society when individuals feel that their fates are connected those of other members. Integration, as it is used in this essay, describes the act of joining the host community – that of its ethnic majority – as opposed to joining an ethnic community. Asking why and to what degree immigrants integrate is hence asking with which group of people do they feel affinity, and why? Analysts often assume that it is because of their ties to their homeland that they seek to recreate similar communities in their new country. However, "sentiments and connections for one community do not categorically restrict feelings of membership in another" (221). Given that the migrant has the capacity to develop a new community, what factors may influence their choice?
             Naila Kabeer identifies some of the constraints on the development of affinities in her analysis of "Racism and the Construction of Community" (pp. 303-307) in "The Structure of Revealed Preference: Race, Community and Female Labour Supply in the London Cl
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