Superdiversity explores processes of diversification and the
complex, emergent social configurations that now supersede prior
forms of diversity in societies around the world. Migration plays a
key role in these processes, bringing changes not just in social,
cultural, religious, and linguistic phenomena, but also in the ways
that these phenomena combine with others like gender, age, and
legal status. The concept of superdiversity has been adopted by
scholars across the social sciences in order to address a variety
of forms, modes, and outcomes of diversification. Central to this
field is the relationship between social categorization and social
organization, including stratification and inequality. Increasingly
complex categories of social "difference" have significant impacts
across scales, from entire societies to individual identities.
While diversification is often met with simplifying stereotypes,
threat narratives, and expressions of antagonism, superdiversity
encourages a perspective on difference as comprising multiple
social processes, flexible collective meanings, and overlapping
personal and group identities. A superdiversity approach encourages
the re-evaluation and recognition of social categories as
multidimensional, unfixed, and porous as opposed to views based on
hardened, one-dimensional thinking about groups. Diversification
and increasing social complexity are bound to continue, if not
intensify, in light of climate change. This will have profound
impacts on the nature of global migration, social relations, and
inequalities. Superdiversity presents a convincing case for
recognizing new social formations created by changing migration
patterns and calls for a re-thinking of public policy and social
scientific approaches to social difference. This introduction to
the multidisciplinary concept of superdiversity will be of
considerable interest to students and researchers in a range of
fields in the humanities and social sciences. The Open Access
version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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