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Super-diversity and its implications

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Vertovec, Steven·2007·Ethnic and Racial Studies
DOI 10.1080/01419870701599465
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Diversity in Britain is not what it used to be. Some thirty years of government policies, social service practices and public perceptions have been framed by a particular understanding of immigration and multicultural diversity. That is, Britain's immigrant and ethnic minority population has conventionally been characterized by large, well-organized African-Caribbean and South Asian communities of citizens originally from Commonwealth countries or formerly colonial territories. Policy frameworks and public understanding – and, indeed, many areas of social science – have not caught up with recently emergent demographic and social patterns. Britain can now be characterized by ‘super-diversity,’ a notion intended to underline a level and kind of complexity surpassing anything the country has previously experienced. Such a condition is distinguished by a dynamic interplay of variables among an increased number of new, small and scattered, multiple-origin, transnationally connected, socio-economically differentiated and legally stratified immigrants who have arrived over the last decade. Outlined here, new patterns of super-diversity pose significant challenges for both policy and research.

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  • Over the past two decades, globalization has altered social, cultural and linguistic diversity in societies all over the world.

    “There is a growing awareness that over the past two decades, globalization has altered the face of social, cultural and linguistic diversity in societies all over the world.”

    From Language and Superdiversity (2015) · cites this paper as Vertovec (2007)

  • Due to diffuse migration since the early 1990s, the multiculturalism of an earlier era has been gradually replaced by super-diversity.

    “Due to the diffuse nature of migration since the early 1990s, the multiculturalism of an earlier era (captured, mostly, in an 'ethnic minorities' paradigm) has been gradually replaced by what Vertovec (2007) calls 'super-diversity'.”

    From Language and Superdiversity (2015) · cites this paper as Vertovec (2007)

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Authors
Vertovec, S.
Affiliations
Max Planck Society (DE)
Corresponding author
Vertovec, Steven
ORCID
Vertovec, Steven
Venue
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2007-11
Volume
30
Issue
6
Pages
1024-1054
ISSN
  • 0141-9870 (ISSN-L)
  • 1466-4356
DOI
10.1080/01419870701599465
OpenAlex
W2005637604
Cited by
5,828
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FWCI
105.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
cc-by-nc-nd
Locations
  • Ethnic and Racial Studies (publishedVersion)
  • Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
  • 기초학문자료센터(KRM) (Korea Research Foundation) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Harvard University
  • European Commission
  • Economic and Social Research Council
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
Keywords
superdiversity, immigration policy, multiculturalism, ethnic minorities, immigrant communities, transnational migration, social policy, public perception of immigration

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