Comparing Super-Diversity

<p>The concept of ‘super-diversity’ has received considerable attention since it was introduced in <i>Ethnic and Racial Studies</i> 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. </p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Ethnic and Racial Studies.</i></p>