publications

@inbook{Meissner2019b,
title = {Growing up with difference \textendash superdiversity as a habitual frame of reference},
author = {Fran Meissner},
editor = {Peter F. Titzmann and Phillip Jugert},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-00-00},
publisher = {Psychology Press.},
address = {Youth in Multicultural Societies: New Directions for Future Research and Interventions},
keywords = {comparison, diversification, global migration, superdiversity, urban futures},
pubstate = {forthcoming},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}

@book{meissner2015describing,
title = {Comparing Super-Diversity},
editor = {Fran Meissner and Steven Vertovec},
url = {https://www.routledge.com/Comparing-Super-Diversity/Meissner-Vertovec/p/book/9781315687483},
isbn = {9781138098879},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
publisher = {Routledge},
abstract = {The concept of ‘super-diversity’ has received considerable attention since it was introduced in Ethnic and Racial Studies in 2007, reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about contemporary social complexity. This book brings together a collection of essays which empirically and theoretically examine super-diversity and the multi-dimensional shifts in migration patterns to which the notion refers. These shifts entail a worldwide diversification of migration channels, differentiations of legal statuses, diverging patterns of gender and age, and variance in migrants’ human capital. Across the contributions, super-diversity is subject to two modes of comparison: (a) side-by-side studies contrasting different places and emergent conditions of super-diversity; and (b) juxtaposed arguments that have differentially found use in utilizing or criticizing ‘super-diversity’ descriptively, methodologically or with reference to policy and public practice. The contributions discuss super-diversity and its implications in nine cities located in eight countries and four continents.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.},
keywords = {comparison, migration studies, superdiversity, urban diversity},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}

@article{meissner2015comparing,
title = {Comparing super-diversity},
author = {Fran Meissner and Steven Vertovec},
doi = {10.1080/01419870.2015.980295},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-02},
journal = {Ethnic and Racial Studies},
volume = {38},
number = {4},
pages = {541--555},
publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
abstract = {Reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about contemporary social complexity, the concept of ‘super-diversity’ has received considerable attention since it was introduced in this journal in 2007. Many utilizing the term have referred only to ‘more ethnicities’ rather than to the term's fuller, original intention of recognizing multidimensional shifts in migration patterns. These entail a worldwide diversification of migration channels, differentiations of legal statuses, diverging patterns of gender and age, and variance in migrants' human capital. In this special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies, the concept is subject to two modes of comparison: (1) side-by-side studies contrasting different places and emergent conditions of super-diversity; and (2) juxtaposed arguments that have differentially found use in utilizing or criticizing super-diversity descriptively, methodologically or with reference to policy and public practice. The contributions discuss super-diversity and its implications in nine cities located in eight countries and four continents.},
keywords = {comparison, diversification, global migration, migration channels, superdiversity, urban diversity},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@article{meissner2015migration,
title = {Migration in migration-related diversity? The nexus between superdiversity and migration studies},
author = {Fran Meissner},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2015.970209 },
doi = {10.1080/01419870.2015.970209 },
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
journal = {Ethnic and Racial Studies},
volume = {38},
number = {4},
pages = {556--567},
publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
abstract = {This article argues that the notion of ‘superdiversity’ implies an investigation of diversity that goes well beyond the nature of migration origins and trajectories. To probe the academic value of superdiversity, I situate it within broader academic debates, suggesting that it is necessary to distinguish between superdiversity as a malleable social science concept \textendash a set of variables that researchers conjunctively investigate \textendash and superdiversity as a context in which these variables play out in complex social patterns. I argue that complexity is an integral aspect of superdiversity, before explaining how innovative research methods were used to investigate superdiversity in a dual-site project in London and Toronto in order to explore its relevance for global comparative research.},
keywords = {comparison, complexity, diversity studies, malleable concept, migration studies, superdiversity},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@inbook{meissner2012forever,
title = {Forever malleable: the field as a reflexive encounter},
author = {Fran Meissner and In\^{e}s Hasselberg},
editor = {Laura Hirvi and Hanna Snellman},
url = {https://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/10.21435/sfe.14/download/1997/
},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-01},
booktitle = {Where is the field?: The experience of migration viewed through the prism of ethnographic fieldwork},
pages = {87-106},
publisher = {Finnish Literature Society},
abstract = {In recent social science debates on the practice of fieldwork, one overarching concern has been that complex social phenomena, in an interconnected world, need to be studied with research methods that can generate data which make this complexity more accessible to academic debate. Of concern in this paper are the assumptions and expectations of ‘the field’ in research with migrants, or more precisely with people who have moved. These are
connected to issues of professional and disciplinary authority, of distancing and otherness, and of course to the development of a workable field site. As has repeatedly been established, the field is no longer easily found, and we reflect on this from the perspective of two quite distinct research projects focused on the one hand on experiences of deportablity and on the other hand on the social networks of migrants from small groups in cities of evident migration-driven diversity.},
keywords = {comparison, fieldwork, qualitative research, reflexivity},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}