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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| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2007
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Ethnic and racial studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 30, Issue: 6, Pages: 1024-1054 |
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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 |
| 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) |
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| ISSN: | 0141-9870 |
| Contains: | In: Ethnic and racial studies
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