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Superdiversität erforscht die zunehmenden Diversifizierungsprozesse und die hochkomplexen sozialen Konfigurationen, durch die frühere Formen der Vielfalt in unseren modernen Gesellschaften nochmals potenziert werden. Migration spielt bei diesen Prozessen eine Schlüsselrolle, wie der international führende Soziologe Steven Vertovec in diesem bahnbrechenden Buch zeigt. Sie bringt nicht nur Veränderungen in allen sozialen, kulturellen, religiösen und sprachlichen Bereichen mit sich, sondern auch in der Art und Weise, wie diese mit Faktoren wie Geschlecht, Alter und...

In a relatively short time, many European governments have been purposefully dropping the notion 'multicultural' or other references to cultural diversity in their policy vocabularies. More and more politicians and public intellectuals have criticized a perceived shift towards 'too much diversity'. This volume goes beyond the conventional approaches to the topic offering a careful examination of not only the social conditions and political questions surrounding multiculturalism but also the recent emergence of a 'backlash' against multicultural initiatives, programmes and...

Super-diversity is a term denoting a transformation of population patterns, especially arising from shifts in global mobility. Around the world over the past three decades, there have been increasing movements of people from more varied national, ethnic, linguistic and religious backgrounds; in addition, there has been a diversification of migration channels, legal statuses and conditions, gender and age ratios and forms of human capital. In light of complex new social formations, " Super-diversity" highlights the need for policymakers to recognize new conditions created by these changes...

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 1970s, when anthropologists developed a keen interest in the subject of ethnicity, especially in post-migration communities. Since the 1990s, migrant transnationalism has become one of the most...

'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states.

This book surveys the broader meanings of transnationalism within the study of globalization before concentrating on migrant transnational practices. Each chapter demonstrates ways in which new and contemporary transnational practices of migrants are fundamentally transforming social, political and economic structures simultaneously within homelands and places of settlement.

Transnationalism provides a much-needed single, clear and condensed text concerning...