The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity

Fran Meissner is Assistant Professor of Critical Geodata Studies and Geodata Ethics at the University of Twente, Netherlands, and a long-term research partner at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her work aims to make visible the migration information infrastructures behind increasingly data-mediated experiences of urban diversity. Nando Sigona is Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham, and is Senior Research Associate at ODI. Nando is a founding editor of Migration Studies and lead editor for the "Global Migration and Social Change" book series. Steven Vertovec is the Founding Director, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Before that, he was Director of the British Economic and Social Research Council's Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS). Steve is currently Co-Editor of the journal Global Networks and Co-Editor of the book series "Global Diversities".

Introduction: Superdiversity and Complex Transformations
Fran Meissner, Nando Sigona, and Steven Vertovec

Part I: Disciplinary Developments
1. Anthropological Perspectives on Superdiversity: Complexity, Difference, Sameness, and Mixing
Mette Louise Berg

2. Mapping Superdiversity: A Geographical Exploration of a Relational Global Condition
Katherine Stansfeld

3. Superdiversity and Urban Planning
Simon Pemberton

4. The Urban Economics of Superdiversity
Max Nathan

5. Human Rights, Intersectionality, and Superdiversity
Kristin Henrard

6. Superdiversity from a Historical Perspective
Marlou Schrover

7. Sociolinguistics and Superdiversity: Innovations and Challenges at the Offline-online Nexus
Max Spotti

8. Social Policy and Superdiversity: An Agenda for Addressing Racisms and Inequalities
Jenny Phillimore


Part II: Methodological Reflections
9. Superdiversity in Comparative Perspective
R.D. Grillo

10. Ethnographies of Superdiversity
Susanne Wessendorf

11. Migrants and New Media: Digital Ethnography, Transnationalism, and Superdiversity
Monika Palmberger

12. Superdiversity: Systems Psychodynamics and Migrant Business
Kiran Trehan

13. Capturing Super-Diversity in Official Data: How the Decennial Censuses in Britain Are Responding
Peter J. Aspinall

14. Multidimensionality and Superdiversity: Some Reflections
Laurence Lessard-Phillips and Veronika Fajth

15. Innovation in the Study of Superdiversity: Methodology, Methods, and Approaches
Rosalyn Negrón


Part III: Spaces and Scales
16. Migration, Superdiversity, and Encounters of the Intimate Kind in Home-Spaces
Brenda S.A. Yeoh

17. Homemaking in Superdiverse Space
Paolo Boccagni

18. Superdiversity, Young People, and Education
Elif Keskiner, Maurice Crul, Ismintha Waldring, Talitha Stam, and Frans Lelie

19. Discreet Diversification in Latin America
Raúl Acosta

20. Superdiversity in Highly Regulated Global Cities
Laavanya Kathiravelu

21. Transnationalism, Elite Migrants, and Spatiality of Superdiversity
Sakura Yamamura


Part IV: Power and Politics
22. The Co-production of Inequality, Precarity, and Diversity
Junjia Ye

23. Identity Politics in Contexts of Superdiversity: From Single to Multiple Identities?
Dirk Geldof

24. "Not in a Relationship:" Superdiversity's Anomalous Disengagement from "Race"
Steve Garner

25. The Governance of Superdiversity: A Complexity Perspective
Peter Scholten

26. Superdiversity through the Lens of Brexit
Sarah Neal and Allan Cochrane


Part V: Conceptual Encounters
27. Transformations, Complexity, and Rapid Change
Thomas Hylland Eriksen

28. Superdiversity and the Everyday
Amanda Wise

29. Citizenship and Statelessness through a Superdiversity Lens
Julija Sardelic

30. Diversity Machines: Urban Popular Economies and Territories of Operation
AbdouMaliq Simone

31. Superdiversity in Settler Societies: Towards a Decolonial Superdiversity
Paul Spoonley

32. Afterword: Superdiversity Futures
Fran Meissner, Nando Sigona, and Steven Vertovec