Diversities Old and New - Migration Socio Spatial Patterns in New York, Singapore Johannesburg

Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Migration, Cities, Diversities 'Old' and 'New'; Steven Vertovec PART I: EXAMINING DIVERSITIES OLD AND NEW 2. Astoria, New York City; Sofya Aptekar and Anna Cieslik 3. Jurong West, Singapore; Laavanya Kathiravelu and Junjia Ye 4. Hillbrow, Johannesburg; Rajohane Matshedisho and Alex Wafer PART II: DIVERSITIES AND SPACES: COMING TOGETHER AND REMAINING APART 5. Religion in Public Spaces of Astoria; Anna Cieslik 6. Boundaries and Surveillance in Astoria; Sofya Aptekar 7. Encounter, Transport and Transitory Spaces in Jurong West; Laavanya Kathiravelu 8. Flea Markets and Familiar Strangers in Jurong West; Junjia Ye 9. Homelessness in Berea Park, Hillbrow; Rajohane Matshedisho 10. Precarity and Intimacy in Super-Diverse Hillbrow; Alex Wafer PART III: SOCIAL-SPATIAL PATTERNS OF ENCOUNTERING DIVERSITY 11. Route-ines 12. Rooms without Walls 13. Corridors of Dissociation 14. Conclusion; Steven Vertovec

About the author

Sofya Aptekar, University of Massachusetts Boston, US
Anna Cieslik, New Jersey City University, US
Laavanya Kathiravelu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Raji Matshedisho, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Alex Wafer, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Junjia Ye, Massey University, Australia

Summary

Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Vertovec
• Assisted by: Vertovec (Editor), S Vertovec (Editor), S. Vertovec (Editor), Steven Vertovec (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349504947
• ISBN: 978-1-349-50494-7
• No. of pages: 275
• Series: Global Diversities; Global Diversities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Migration, B, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Ethnicity, Sociology, general, Urban Sociology, Emigration and immigration, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Human Geography, Ethnicity Studies, Sociology, Urban, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban communities, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Human Migration