publications

@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{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}
}