Socialising with Diversity

Relational Diversity Through a Superdiversity Lens
2016. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-47438-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 130 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 2939 g

Reihe: Global Diversities

This book analyses post-migration social networks via the notion of superdiversity. Approaching diversity as relational and complexly configured through multiple migration-related differentiations, it challenges us to rethink how we talk about and classify migrant networks. Based on research in two cities of migration -  London and Toronto -  the author investigates how we can use a superdiversity lens to discuss migrant networks in urban contexts. Focusing on the personal networks of Pacific Islanders and New Zealand Maori, she sheds light on the sociality practices of relatively small groups of migrants, the members of which are nonetheless differentiated in terms of superdiversity. Using cluster analytic pattern detection to explore alternative ways of describing migrant networks, she brings into play multifaceted descriptions such as city-cohort, long-term resident, superdiverse and migrant-peer networks. Visualising complex patterns of diversity, thisbook therefore contributes to theoretical debates by proposing a relational understanding of diversity rather than one based on the enumeration of (ethnic) categories. This book will appeal to sociologists, political scientists and all scholars interested in urban diversity, migration and diasporas.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meissner, Fran

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction - Socialising with Diversity.- Chapter 2. Exploring superdiversity and relational diversity.- Chapter 3. How and where to point a superdiversity lens?.- Chapter 4. Visualising relational diversity - finding difference in similarity.- Chapter 5. Disentangling multidimensional homophily and describing migrant networks in contexts of superdiversity.- Chapter 6. Concluding socialising with diversity.

Über Autor(innen)

Fran Meissner is Junior Group Leader in the Department of Urban and Regional Sociology at the University of Kassel, Germany.