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}
}

@article{Meissner2019,
title = {Of straw figures and multi-stakeholder monitoring: a response to Willem Schinkel},
author = {Fran Meissner},
url = {https://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40878-019-0121-y},
doi = {10.1186/s40878-019-0121-y},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-00-00},
journal = {Comparative Migration Studies},
keywords = {convivial disintegration, integration, relational diversity, superdiversity, urban futures},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@booklet{meissner2018DNP,
title = {Digital-narrative-photo-elicitation (DNP)},
author = {Barbarino, Robert; Meissner, Fran},
url = {https://statusdiversity.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/181105_Report_StatusDiversity_K3_vs4Upload.pdf},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-11-01},
journal = {StatusDiversity Report Series},
volume = {SD18-01},
number = {SD 18-01},
abstract = {In diesem Teilbericht wird die Entwicklung des innovativen Interviewinstruments digital-narrative- photo-elicitation (DNP) zur Erhebung von Migrations-Status-Geschichten beschrieben. Die im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes StatusDiversity angelegte Forschung will durch die Rekonstruktion individueller Migrations-Status-Geschichten besser verstehen, wie r\"{a}umlich und zeitlich differenzierte Muster von legal status diversity entstehen (Meissner 2017). Neben der reinen Entwicklung der DNP wird auch das Vorgehen bei der methodischen Realisierung der Datenerhebung reflektiert, insbesondere der Zugang zu und die Auswahl von InterviewpartnerInnen. Abschlie\ssend wird das Vorgehen zur Auswertung der mit Hilfe der DNP gesammelten Daten erl\"{a}utert.},
month = {11},
keywords = {digital methods, diversification, diversity dynamics, regulation of migration, superdiversity},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {booklet}
}

@misc{meissner2018integration,
title = {From integration mainstreaming to convivial disintegration: how superdiversity shows the pitfalls of (mainstreaming) immigrant integration},
author = {Fran Meissner},
url = {http://www.mmg.mpg.de/publications/working-papers/2018/wp-18-03/},
issn = {2192-2357},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-04-23},
journal = {MMG Working Paper},
volume = {18},
number = {03},
abstract = {The emergent literature on mainstreaming immigrant integration frequently references the term superdiversity. The diversification of migration is put forward as one rational for implementing measures to support immigrant integration across policy fields and across levels of policy making. In this paper I reflect on those assertions and argue that contrarily using superdiversity is not an argument in favour of mainstreaming immigrant integration, but that instead a superdiversity lens is uniquely placed to critically examine whether the goal of mainstreaming should be integration at all. To move this argument forward I propose more concertedly thinking about the merits of better understanding convivial disintegration as a more adequate starting point for thinking through the social and economic implications of international migration and how to address them through policy interventions},
howpublished = {Working Paper},
keywords = {convivial disintegration, integration policy, mainstreaming, superdiversity, uncertainty},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {misc}
}

@inbook{meissner2018mainstreaming,
title = {Mainstreaming and Superdiversity: Beyond More Integration},
author = {Fran Meissner},
editor = {Peter Scholten
Ilona van Breugel},
url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-59277-0_10},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-59277-0_10},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {Mainstreaming Integration Governance},
pages = {215-233},
publisher = {Springer},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {The emergent literature on mainstreaming immigrant integration frequently references the term ‘superdiversity’. The diversification of migration is put forward as one rationale for implementing measures to support immigrant integration across policy fields and across levels of policy making. In this chapter and against the backdrop of the book’s empirical work, I ask how else, beyond being a rationale for mainstreaming, thinking about superdiversity might add to debates about what is mainstreamed. I primarily advance the argument that a superdiversity lens is uniquely placed to critically examine whether the goal of mainstreaming should be integration and propose to consider the merits of thinking about convivial disintegration as a more adequate policy goal.},
keywords = {complexity, convivial disintegration, integration policy, mainstreaming, superdiversity},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}

@article{meissner2018legal,
title = {Legal status diversity: regulating to control and everyday contingencies},
author = {Fran Meissner},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1341718?needAccess=true},
doi = {10.1080/1369183X.2017.1341718},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-08-16},
journal = {Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies},
volume = {44},
number = {2},
pages = {287-306},
publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
abstract = {Tracing the link between population flux and the regulation of migration, this paper develops the argument that immigration status differentiations impact not only on categorical multiplicities but also on contingent dynamics in urban migration-related diversity. A better understanding of those contingencies is central to discussing processes of adaptation in contexts of superdiversity. I first point to the frequency of change in rules and regulations pertaining to a multiplicity of immigration statuses. I then emphasise the co-relevance of conditionalities of entry and parameters of presence, set out by those rules, as central components of legal status diversity. In a third part I consider the resulting differentiations in terms of information overload. Thinking about status differentiations as information contradicts devising ever more status tracks to order migration and optimise its economic and social implications. I then point to empirical patterns in legal status diversities emphasising spatiotemporal contingencies in admitting migrants through different immigration channels. Concurrently I highlight why the resulting patterns of change are relevant for local urban diversity dynamics. I conclude the paper by drawing parallels between on the one hand steering migration to optimise its implications and on the other hand steering adaptations in superdiverse contexts to optimise integration.},
keywords = {diversity dynamics, integration, optimisation, regulation of migration, superdiversity},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@book{meissner2016socialising,
title = {Socialising with Diversity: Relational Diversity Through a Superdiversity Lens},
author = {Fran Meissner},
url = {http://socdiv.mmg.mpg.de/},
doi = {10.1057/978-1-137-47439-1},
isbn = {978-1-137-47439-1},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-02-01},
publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan},
address = {UK},
series = {Global Diversities},
abstract = {This book analyses post-migration social networks via the notion of superdiversity. Approaching diversity as relational and complexly configured through multiple migration-related differentiations, it challenges us to rethink how we talk about and classify migrant networks. Based on research in two cities of migration - London and Toronto - the author investigates how we can use a superdiversity lens to discuss migrant networks in urban contexts. Focusing on the personal networks of Pacific Islanders and New Zealand M\={a}ori, she sheds light on the sociality practices of relatively small groups of migrants, the members of which are nonetheless differentiated in terms of superdiversity. Using cluster analytic pattern detection to explore alternative ways of describing migrant networks, she brings into play multifaceted descriptions such as city-cohort, long-term resident, superdiverse and migrant-peer networks. Visualising complex patterns of diversity, this book therefore contributes to theoretical debates by proposing a relational understanding of diversity rather than one based on the enumeration of (ethnic) categories. This book will appeal to sociologists, political scientists and all scholars interested in urban diversity, migration and diasporas.},
keywords = {homophily, London, relational diversity, Small migrant groups, social network, superdiversity, Toronto},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}

@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}
}

@phdthesis{meissner2013socialising,
title = {Socialising with diversity: Small migrant groups, social networks and superdiversity},
author = {Fran Meissner},
url = {http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/46693
http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/46693/1/Meissner%2C_Franziska_Venita_Mally.pdf},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
journal = {Brighton: University of Sussex},
address = {University of Sussex},
school = {School of Global Studies},
abstract = {The notion of superdiversity demands a move beyond an ethno-focal analysis of migration related diversity and calls to analytically incorporate other aspects of diversification, including differential migration, legal status and labour market trajectories. Taking London and Toronto as field locations, this thesis investigates how a superdiversity lens can be operationalised and utilised to discuss migrant socialities in urban contexts. It methodologically explores one particular avenue for doing this - personal social network analysis - to better understand the theoretical and empirical implications of adopting a superdiversity approach. Both qualitative and quantitative analysis strategies are used and particular emphasis is on visualising complex patterns and exploring how starting with complexity as an assumption facilitates the multidimensional analysis a superdiversity lens calls for. Focusing on networks of migrants who in statistical terms are commonly categorised as 'other' - who have relatively few co-migrants in terms of place of origin but who are differentiated in terms of other superdiversity aspects - the thesis questions if and what impact small group size has on patterns of sociality. With this focus it is established that a) the numerical size of the origin group impacts on social activities differently depending on whether one small group is explicitly liked to other pan-ethnic groups or not; b) that sociality patterns of migrants emerge from the complex interplay of general socialising opportunities but are also linked to individual trajectories of migration and settlement; c) that with a superdiversity lens it is indeed possible to move beyond the ethnic network notion. To support this latter point the thesis explores four alternative ways of describing migrant networks in terms of city-cohort, long-term resident, superdiverse and migrant-peer networks. The analysis contributes to theoretical debates by proposing a rational understanding of diversity rather than one based on the enumeration of categories be they ethnic or otherwise.},
keywords = {London, relational diversity, Small migrant groups, superdiversity, Toronto},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {phdthesis}
}