Super-Diversity in Everyday Life

Presenting several in-depth studies, this book explores how super-diversity operates in every-day relations and interactions in a variety of urban settings in Western Europe and the United States. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

List of contents

Introduction: super-diversity in everyday life 1. Pioneer migrants and their social relations in super-diverse London 2. Coming of age in multi-ethnic America: young adults’ experiences with diversity 3. Super-diversity as a methodological lens: re-centring power and inequality 4. A discourse of displacement: super-diversity, urban citizenship, and the politics of autochthony in Amsterdam 5. "We have to teach them diversity": on demographic transformations and lived reality in an Amsterdam working-class neighbourhood 6. What about the mainstream? Assimilation in super-diverse times 7. Talking around super-diversity

About the author

Jan Willem Duyvendak is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and the director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA.
Philip Kasinitz is Presidential Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA.

Summary

Presenting several in-depth studies, this book explores how super-diversity operates in every-day relations and interactions in a variety of urban settings in Western Europe and the United States. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Willem (University of Amsterdam Duyvendak, Jan Willem Foner Duyvendak
• Assisted by: Jan Willem Duyvendak (Editor), Duyvendak Jan Willem (Editor), Nancy Foner (Editor), Philip Kasinitz (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2019
• EAN: 9780367273156
• ISBN: 978-0-367-27315-6
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies