Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)Vera Espinoza, MarciaBaillot, HelenKäkelä, EmmaleenaDakessian, ArekKerlaff, Leyla2023-02-032023-02-032023-01Vera Espinoza, M., Baillot, H., Käkelä, E., Dakessian, A. and Kerlaff, L. (2023) ‘The role of social connections in refugees’ pathways towards socio-economic integration’, Forced Migration Review, (17), pp. 15–18. Available at: https://www.fmreview.org/issue71/veraespinoza-baillot-kakela-dakessian-kerlaff.https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/12798https://www.fmreview.org/issue71/veraespinoza-baillot-kakela-dakessian-kerlaffMarcia Vera Espinoza - ORCID: 0000-0001-6238-7683 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6238-7683Helen Baillot - ORCID: 0000-0003-2848-023X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2848-023XEmmaleena Käkelä - ORCID: 0000-0001-9658-1548 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9658-1548Arek Dakessian - ORCID: 0000-0001-7792-6862 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7792-6862Leyla Kerlaff - ORCID: 0000-0003-0191-1511 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0191-1511Social connections are well recognised as contributing to integration. Research undertaken in Scotland offers useful, sometimes counter-intuitive insights into their role over time, plus learnings that could be explored in other contexts.15-18enFMR is an Open Access publication. Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print or link to the full texts of articles published in FMR and on the FMR website, as long as the use is for non-commercial purposes and the author and FMR are attributed. Unless otherwise indicated, all articles published in FMR in print and online, and FMR itself, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. Details at www.fmreview.org/copyright.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Article