Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity

Superdiversity is one of the most prominent contemporary concepts advancing our current understanding of international migration and its societal outcomes. This Handbook brings together chapters that link the numerous social scientific debates, approaches, and methodologies developed in light of superdiversity. The handbook offers students, educators, researchers, and practitioners a much sought-after compendium of major advances made in studying complex transformations in light of superdiversity.

List of contents

• Introduction: Superdiversity and Complex Transformations


• Fran Meissner, Nando Sigona, and Steven Vertovec


• Part I: Disciplinary Developments


• 1. Anthropological Perspectives on Superdiversity: Complexity, Difference, Sameness, and Mixing


• Mette Louise Berg


• 2. Mapping Superdiversity: A Geographical Exploration of a Relational Global Condition


• Katherine Stansfeld


• 3. Superdiversity and Urban Planning


• Simon Pemberton


• 4. The Urban Economics of Superdiversity


• Max Nathan


• 5. Human Rights, Intersectionality, and Superdiversity


• Kristin Henrard


• 6. Superdiversity from a Historical Perspective


• Marlou Schrover


• 7. Sociolinguistics and Superdiversity: Innovations and Challenges at the Offline-online Nexus


• Max Spotti


• 8. Social Policy and Superdiversity: An Agenda for Addressing Racisms and Inequalities


• Jenny Phillimore


• Part II: Methodological Reflections


• 9. Superdiversity in Comparative Perspective


• R.D. Grillo


• 10. Ethnographies of Superdiversity


• Susanne Wessendorf


• 11. Migrants and New Media: Digital Ethnography, Transnationalism, and Superdiversity


• Monika Palmberger


• 12. Superdiversity: Systems Psychodynamics and Migrant Business


• Kiran Trehan


• 13. Capturing Super-Diversity in Official Data: How the Decennial Censuses in Britain Are Responding


• Peter J. Aspinall


• 14. Multidimensionality and Superdiversity: Some Reflections


• Laurence Lessard-Phillips and Veronika Fajth


• 15. Innovation in the Study of Superdiversity: Methodology, Methods, and Approaches


• Rosalyn Negrón


• Part III: Spaces and Scales


• 16. Migration, Superdiversity, and Encounters of the Intimate Kind in Home-Spaces


• Brenda S.A. Yeoh


• 17. Homemaking in Superdiverse Space


• Paolo Boccagni


• 18. Superdiversity, Young People, and Education


• Elif Keskiner, Maurice Crul, Ismintha Waldring, Talitha Stam, and Frans Lelie


• 19. Discreet Diversification in Latin America


• Raúl Acosta


• 20. Superdiversity in Highly Regulated Global Cities


• Laavanya Kathiravelu


• 21. Transnationalism, Elite Migrants, and Spatiality of Superdiversity


• Sakura Yamamura


• Part IV: Power and Politics


• 22. The Co-production of Inequality, Precarity, and Diversity


• Junjia Ye


• 23. Identity Politics in Contexts of Superdiversity: From Single to Multiple Identities?


• Dirk Geldof


• 24. "Not in a Relationship:" Superdiversity's Anomalous Disengagement from "Race"


• Steve Garner


• 25. The Governance of Superdiversity: A Complexity Perspective


• Peter Scholten


• 26. Superdiversity through the Lens of Brexit


• Sarah Neal and Allan Cochrane


• Part V: Conceptual Encounters


• 27. Transformations, Complexity, and Rapid Change


• Thomas Hylland Eriksen


• 28. Superdiversity and the Everyday


• Amanda Wise


• 29. Citizenship and Statelessness through a Superdiversity Lens


• Julija Sardelic


• 30. Diversity Machines: Urban Popular Economies and Territories of Operation


• AbdouMaliq Simone


• 31. Superdiversity in Settler Societies: Towards a Decolonial Superdiversity


• Paul Spoonley


• 32. Afterword: Superdiversity Futures


• Fran Meissner, Nando Sigona, and Steven Vertovec

About the author

Fran Meissner is Assistant Professor of Critical Geodata Studies and Geodata Ethics at the University of Twente, Netherlands, and a long-term research partner at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her work aims to make visible the migration information infrastructures behind increasingly data-mediated experiences of urban diversity.

Nando Sigona is Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham, and is Senior Research Associate at ODI. Nando is a founding editor of Migration Studies and lead editor for the "Global Migration and Social Change" book series.

Steven Vertovec is the Founding Director, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Before that, he was Director of the British Economic and Social Research Council's Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS). Steve is currently Co-Editor of

the journal Global Networks and Co-Editor of the book series "Global Diversities".

Summary

Old immigration hubs and new ones worldwide have experienced rapid and increasing movements of people from more varied national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. These movements have emerged along with a diversification of migration channels and legal statuses. In concurrent but differing ways, these migration-driven trends profoundly transform societies in complex ways spanning social, demographic, cultural, economic, and political structures. Across a range of disciplines and literatures, such complex transformation processes and patterns are summarized by the concept of superdiversity.

In The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity, the editors have collated bespoke contributions that summarize and expand on research work done in light of superdiversity. The book offers unique insights into the ongoing debates about diversity and how to make sense of it considering complex social transformations. The collection is unique in providing accessible texts that highlight different disciplinary standpoints and developments and the methodological innovation superdiversity entails. The Handbook also brings together chapters that emphasize interdisciplinary case studies and examples of the social implications of superdiversity in different cities and contexts around the globe.
The thirty-three chapters in this book are arranged in five sections: Disciplinary Developments; Methodological Reflections; Spaces and Scales; Power and Politics; and Conceptual Encounters. Together, these offers students, educators, researchers, and practitioners a much sought-after compendium of major advances made in studying complex transformations in light of superdiversity.

Additional text

The emphasis,... is on broad social and geographic settings rather than specific institutions, such as the military or universities... This is mainly a reference tool for advanced students of diversity, international migration, and place-based social transformations.

Product details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9780197544938
• ISBN: 978-0-19-754493-8
• No. of pages: 520
• Series: Oxford Handbooks Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Development Studies