Super-diversity and its implications

Diversity in Britain is not what it used to be. Some thirty years of government policies, social service practices and public perceptions have been framed by a particular understanding of immigration and multicultural diversity. That is, Britain's immigrant and ethnic minority population has co...

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Main Author: Vertovec, Steven 1957- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2007
In: Ethnic and racial studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 30, Issue: 6, Pages: 1024-1054
Further subjects:B International migration
B Migration policy
B Ethnicity
B Great Britain
B Einflussgröße
B Relationstechnik
B Research
B Theory formation
B Identity
B Social integration
B Culture
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Summary:Diversity in Britain is not what it used to be. Some thirty years of government policies, social service practices and public perceptions have been framed by a particular understanding of immigration and multicultural diversity. That is, Britain's immigrant and ethnic minority population has conventionally been characterized by large, well-organized African-Caribbean and South Asian communities of citizens originally from Commonwealth countries or formerly colonial territories. Policy frameworks and public understanding-and, indeed, many areas of social science-have not caught up with recently emergent demographic and social patterns. Britain can now be characterized by 'super-diversity', a notion intended to underline a level and kind of complexity surpassing anything the country has previously experienced. Such a condition is distinguished by a dynamic interplay of variables among an increased number of new, small and scattered, multiple-origin, transnationally connected, socio-economically differentiated and legally stratified immigrants who have arrived over the last decade. Outlined here, new patterns of super-diversity pose significant challenges for both policy and research. (Ethnic and Racial Studies)
ISSN:0141-9870
Contains:In: Ethnic and racial studies