The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity

Old and new immigration hubs have experienced rapid and increasing movements of people from diverse national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious backgrounds, leading to the concept of superdiversity. The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity provides unique insights into the ongoing debates about diversity and how to make sense of it considering complex social transformations. It offers accessible texts that highlight different disciplinary standpoints and developments and interdisciplinary case studies and examples of the social implications of superdiversity in different cities and contexts.

Format: Hardback
Length: 488 pages
Publication date: 09 May 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Old immigration hubs and new ones worldwide have witnessed a surge in the movement of people from diverse national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. This phenomenon has coincided with the diversification of migration channels and legal statuses. These migration-driven trends have exerted profound transformations on societies, affecting social, demographic, cultural, economic, and political structures in complex ways.

Across various disciplines and literatures, these complex transformation processes and patterns are collectively referred to as superdiversity. In The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity, the editors have compiled a collection of bespoke contributions that summarize and extend research conducted in the context of superdiversity. The book offers unique insights into ongoing debates about diversity and provides valuable perspectives on how to make sense of it in the face of complex social transformations.

What sets this collection apart is its unique ability to provide accessible texts that showcase diverse disciplinary standpoints and developments, as well as the methodological innovation inherent in superdiversity. The Handbook also brings together chapters that focus on 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 organized into five sections: Disciplinary Developments, Methodological Reflections, Spaces and Scales, Power and Politics, and Conceptual Encounters. Together, these sections offer students, educators, researchers, and practitioners a much-needed compendium of significant advancements made in studying complex transformations in the light of superdiversity.

Weight: 978g
Dimension: 184 x 256 x 44 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780197544938