Not all the same after all? Superdiversity as a lens for the study of past migrations

Bock, Jozefien De

doi:10.1080/01419870.2015.980290

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“…Factors such as length of stay and other forms of inequality connected to age, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, education, language for example are other important variables that may be more salient markers of lived experience than ethnicity alone. Reflecting on the work of Vertovec (2007) and others (Baycan-Levent 2010;Blommaert 2013b;De Bock 2014), Pride (2015) proposes a multi-dimensional framework to illustrate the interplay between different domains of superdiversity (Figure 2). Each domain is made up of a number of different variables that emerged from the creation of a superdiversity variable index which in total includes over 30 variables.…”

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Researching Migration in a Superdiverse Society: Challenges, Methods, Concerns and Promises

Goodson

Grzymała-Kazłowska

2017

Sociological Research Online

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The arrival of superdiversity raises a wide range of methodological issues that warrant further consideration by social researchers conducting research in superdiverse contexts. The complex multi-layering of population settlement that has emerged due to successive waves of migration means that identities, lived experience and access to services including welfare are played out in a plethora of different ways, often determined by the interplay of a range of socio-economic variables alongside structural characteristics, which influence the fundamental rights and entitlements of individuals living in the UK and in turn their settlement and adaptation experiences. This paper reflects on the limitations of ethno-centric research designs, which concentrate on ethnicity as the single most important unit of analysis, and calls for more participatory and multidimensional methodologies that engage diverse participants and reflect the levels of socio-demographic complexity experienced in urban areas of society. It then moves on to discuss a number of specific methodological challenges associated with complex populations. In particular sampling and access issues associated with diverse migrant populations will be considered. The latter part of this paper discusses the adoption of a range of research approaches that offer promising potential in terms of better capturing and understanding the heterogeneity, complexity and fluidity concomitant with superdiversity as well as engaging a range of community stakeholders in the production of knowledge.

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Researching Migration in a Superdiverse Society: Challenges, Methods, Concerns and Promises

Goodson

Grzymała-Kazłowska

2017

Sociological Research Online

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“…Even going back just a few decades, claims of new diversity are not always convincing either. Jozefien De Bock (2015) showed that the population of and migration to Ghent from 1960 to 1980 were not very different from today. Pavlenko (in press) points to the fact that most Eastern European cities are marked by exactly the opposite from superdiversity, i.e.…”

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Does the superdiversity label stick? Configurations of ethnic diversity in Dutch class rooms

Siebers¹

2018

International Sociology

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Superdiversity has become a popular term to depict the societal impact of migration in Europe, but does its heuristic value justify its popularity? The term superdiversity seems to be important to many scholars, but is it relevant to the lived experiences and applicable to the reality of migrants and non-migrants in societal institutions like education? This article aims to assess this heuristic value by applying superdiversity's connotations to findings of 125 interviews with students and teachers of a Dutch university of applied sciences. The two different configurations of diversity found, i.e. commonplace diversity and essentialist diversity, question superdiversity's heuristic value. First, students do not experience diversity as something exciting or 'super' or positive, as superdiversity authors suggest. Their main concerns, i.e. to enjoy education and to construct their identities in line with institutional demands, are not covered by the notion of superdiversity. Second, key descriptive meanings associated with superdiversity do not make sense to these configurations of diversity, i.e. discarding the ethno-focal lens and expectations of more or new and multilayered complexity. Findings point to conviviality, creolization, ethnic boundaries and groupism, not to superdiversity.

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“…el término va camino de convertirse en un nuevo paradigma de análisis en el estudio de las migraciones; de hecho se habla del concepto superdiversidad como una lente para analizar los nuevos fenómenos migratorios más recientes (acosta-García & Martínez--Ortiz, 2015;Boccagni, 2015;Meissner, 2015;Goodson & Grzymala-Kazlowska, 2017), o incluso los del pasado (De Bock, 2015). no cabe duda que va a ser un enfoque inspirador en el estudio de los movimientos migratorios.…”

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Análisis De La Superdiversidad Migratoria en El Medio Rural: Un Estudio De Caso Del Alentejo

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2018

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RESUMEN-se presenta un estudio de caso representativo de superdiversidad migratoria en el medio rural: el municipio portugués de Odemira. se contextualiza el fenómeno dentro de las tendencias migratorias tras la crisis económica global y se identifican algunos de los principales temas que confluyen en su análisis: la llamada lifestyle migration, el turismo alternativo y de naturaleza, y los enclaves agrícolas globales. asimismo, se discute el potencial y la relevancia de estos rural melting pots para el análisis sociológico. Palabras clave: Migración internacional; turismo residencial; enclaves agrícolas globales; turismo de naturaleza; medio rural. ABSTRACT-rUraL sUPerDiVersitY: ODeMira, aLenteJO, a Case stUDY. This article is about a case study on migration superdiversity in a rural setting: the Portuguese municipality of Odemira. The phenomenon is contextualized within post-crisis global migration trends to identify some of the main converging topics: lifestyle migration, nature or alternative tourism, and global agricultural enclaves. We bring forward the sociological relevance and possibilities of these rural melting pots.

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Not all the same after all? Superdiversity as a lens for the study of past migrations

Cited by 27 publications

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Researching Migration in a Superdiverse Society: Challenges, Methods, Concerns and Promises

Researching Migration in a Superdiverse Society: Challenges, Methods, Concerns and Promises

Does the superdiversity label stick? Configurations of ethnic diversity in Dutch class rooms

Análisis De La Superdiversidad Migratoria en El Medio Rural: Un Estudio De Caso Del Alentejo

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