publications

@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}
}