Over the last decades, scholars have been searching for better tools, concepts and methods to describe and analyze new social patterns of diversity and identity arising from migration-driven diversification of the political, social, economic and cultural landscapes. How can the contemporary super-diversity be conceptualized, understood and researched in urban contexts?
Over the last decades, scholars have been searching for better tools, concepts and methods to describe and analyze new social patterns of diversity and identity arising from migration-driven diversification of the political, social, economic and cultural landscapes. The term ‘super-diversity’ has been coined to describe a condition in cities where the arrival of migrants from many different countries, combined with longer established minority populations, has resulted in an unprecedented variety of cultures, social conditions, identities, languages, and immigration statuses. All these factors combine meaning that super-diversity presents unparalleled challenges and opportunities to researchers, policymakers and practitioners, as well as to communities.
Professor Jenny Phillimore, Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, Professor of Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham.
Jenny Phillimore is Professor of Migration and Superdiversity. She is a world leading scholar in refugee integration, superdiversity and access to social welfare with a particular focus on public health. Jenny is also an expert on Community Sponsorship. She manages teams of researchers focusing on access to health, education, employment, training, and housing integration with a particular focus on integration and organisational change in the UK and EU. Jenny is a Fellow of the RSA and of the Academy of the Social Sciences. She has advised local, regional, national and European Government. Jenny led the ESRC/Norface funded UPWEB project which is developing a new concept of welfare bricolage to explore how residents in superdiverse areas address health concerns.