1st Edition

Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism New Directions

Edited By Steven Vertovec Copyright 2010
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

The field of anthropology of migration and multiculturalism is booming. Throughout its hundred-odd year history, studies of migration and diverse or ‘plural’ societies have arguably been both marginal and central to the discipline of Anthropology. However, recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of anthropological studies concerning these topics. This has particularly been the case since the... Read more

1. Introduction: New directions in the anthropology of migration and multiculturalism  Steven Vertovec  2. An excess of alterity? Debating difference in a multicultural society  Ralph Grillo  3. How exceptional is New York? Migration and multiculturalism in the empire city  Nancy Foner  4. Super-diversity and its implications  Steven Vertovec  5. Complexity in social and cultural integration: Some analytical dimensions  Thomas Hylland Eriksen  6. Rescaling cities, cultural diversity and transnationalism: Migrants of Mardin and Essen  Ayse Caglar  7. The two faces of transnational citizenship  Michael Peter Smith  8. Risk, trust, gender and transnational cousin marriage among British Pakistanis  Katharine Charsley  9. Migration, assimilation and the cultural construction of identity: Navajo perspectives  Louise Lamphere

Biography

Steven Vertovec is Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany.

All contributors are experts on migration, globalisation, multiculturalism, transnationalism or ethnic studies and among them one finds some of the best scholars in the field [...] Vertovec’s own work and excellent choice of co-authors paves a path ‘forward’ in the respective field - Kristina Toplak, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia