Old immigration hubs and new ones worldwide have experienced rapid and increasing movements of people from more varied national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. These movements have emerged along with a diversification of migration channels and legal statuses. In concurrent but differing ways, these migration-driven trends profoundly transform societies in complex ways spanning social, demographic, cultural, economic, and political structures. Across a range of disciplines and literatures, such complex transformation processes and patterns are summarized by the concept of superdiversity. In The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity, the editors have collated bespoke contributions that summarize and expand on research work done in light of superdiversity. The book offers unique insights into the ongoing debates about diversity and how to make sense of it considering complex social transformations. The collection is unique in providing accessible texts that highlight different disciplinary standpoints and developments and the methodological innovation superdiversity entails. The Handbook also brings together chapters that emphasize interdisciplinary case studies and examples of the social implications of superdiversity in different cities and contexts around the globe. The thirty-three chapters in this book are arranged in five sections: Disciplinary Developments; Methodological Reflections; Spaces and Scales; Power and Politics; and Conceptual Encounters. Together, these offers students, educators, researchers, and practitioners a much sought-after compendium of major advances made in studying complex transformations in light of superdiversity.

About the Author
Fran Meissner is Assistant Professor of Critical Geodata Studies and Geodata Ethics at the University of Twente, Netherlands, and a long-term research partner at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her work aims to make visible the migration information infrastructures behind increasingly data-mediated experiences of urban diversity. Nando Sigona is Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham, and is Senior Research Associate at ODI. Nando is a founding editor of Migration Studies and lead editor for the "Global Migration and Social Change" book series. Steven Vertovec is the Founding Director, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Before that, he was Director of the British Economic and Social Research Council's Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS). Steve is currently Co-Editor of the journal Global Networks and Co-Editor of the book series "Global Diversities".

Reviews
The emphasis,... is on broad social and geographic settings rather than specific institutions, such as the military or universities... This is mainly a reference tool for advanced students of diversity, international migration, and place-based social transformations. * Choice *



Book Information
ISBN 9780197544938
Author Fran Meissner
Format Hardback
Page Count 520
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 966g
Dimensions(mm) 180mm * 254mm * 42mm