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The book develops the notion of super-diversity through its application to concrete empirical examples. It offers both fresh data and the basis for a continued debate on how to study and understand contemporary social complexities and migration driven processes of diversification. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Ethnic and Racial Studies.
List of contents
1. Comparing super-diversity 2. Migration in migration-related diversity? The nexus between superdiversity and migration studies 3. Delivering maternity services in an era of super-diversity: the challenges of novelty and newness 4. Not all the same after all? Superdiversity as a lens for the study of past migrations 5. Spatializing diversities, diversifying spaces: housing experiences and home space perceptions in a migrant hub of Istanbul 6. (Super)diversity and the migration-social work nexus: a new lens on the field of access and inclusion? 7. Superdiversity and conviviality: exploring frameworks for doing ethnography in Southern European intercultural cities 8. Mexico through a superdiversity lens: already-existing diversity meets new immigration 9. New diversity, old anxieties in New Zealand: the complex identity politics and engagement of a settler society
About the author
Fran Meissner is Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Steven Vertovec is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany.
Summary
The book develops the notion of super-diversity through its application to concrete empirical examples. It offers both fresh data and the basis for a continued debate on how to study and understand contemporary social complexities and migration driven processes of diversification. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
