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}
}