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Super-diversity and its implications.
- Source :
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Ethnic & Racial Studies . Nov2007, Vol. 30 Issue 6, p1024-1054. 31p. 4 Charts, 3 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01419870
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Ethnic & Racial Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 26774422
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870701599465