Divercities: Understanding Super Diversity in Deprived and Mixed Neighbourhoods
Stijn Oosterlynck, Gert Verschraegen, and Ronald van Kempen
Abstract
How do people deal with diversity in deprived and mixed urban neighbourhoods? This book provides a comparative international perspective on superdiversity in cities, with explicit attention given to social inequality and social exclusion on a neighbourhood level. Although public discourses on urban diversity are often negative, this book focuses on how residents actively and creatively come and live together through micro-level interactions. By deliberately taking an international perspective on the daily lives of residents, the book uncovers the ways in which national and local contexts shape ... More
How do people deal with diversity in deprived and mixed urban neighbourhoods? This book provides a comparative international perspective on superdiversity in cities, with explicit attention given to social inequality and social exclusion on a neighbourhood level. Although public discourses on urban diversity are often negative, this book focuses on how residents actively and creatively come and live together through micro-level interactions. By deliberately taking an international perspective on the daily lives of residents, the book uncovers the ways in which national and local contexts shape living in diversity. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students of poverty, segregation and social mix, conviviality, the effects of international migration, urban and neighbourhood policies and governance, multiculturality, social networks, social cohesion, social mobility, and super-diversity.
Keywords:
diversity,
urban neighbourhood,
deprived neighbourhood,
superdiversity,
city,
social inequality,
social exclusion,
urban diversity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447338178 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2019 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447338178.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Stijn Oosterlynck, editor
University of Antwerp
Gert Verschraegen, editor
University of Antwerp
Ronald van Kempen, editor
Utrecht University
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