1st Edition

Super-Diversity in Everyday Life

Edited By Jan Willem Duyvendak, Nancy Foner, Philip Kasinitz Copyright 2020
156 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

Presenting several in-depth studies, this book explores how super-diversity operates in every-day relations and interactions in a variety of urban settings in Western Europe and the United States. The contributors raise a broad range of questions about the nature and effects of super-diversity. They ask if a quantitative increase in demographic diversity makes a qualitative difference in how... Read more

Introduction: super-diversity in everyday life

Nancy Foner, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Philip Kasinitz

1. Pioneer migrants and their social relations in super-diverse London

Susanne Wessendorf

2. Coming of age in multi-ethnic America: young adults’ experiences with diversity

Van C. Tran

3. Super-diversity as a methodological lens: re-centring power and inequality

Sofya Aptekar

4. A discourse of displacement: super-diversity, urban citizenship, and the politics of autochthony in Amsterdam

Paul Mepschen

5. "We have to teach them diversity": on demographic transformations and lived reality in an Amsterdam working-class neighbourhood

Fenneke Wekker

6. What about the mainstream? Assimilation in super-diverse times

Richard Alba and Jan Willem Duyvendak

7. Talking around super-diversity

Steven Vertovec

Biography

Jan Willem Duyvendak is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and the director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.



Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA.



Philip Kasinitz is Presidential Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA.