Hall, Suzanne M. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0660-648X
(2017)
Mooring ‘super-diversity’ to a brutal migration milieu.
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40 (9).
pp. 1562-1573.
ISSN 0141-9870
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Abstract
The migration milieu in which ‘super-diversity’ locates is not a crisis of human mobility, but the crisis of political imagination to engage with mobility as integral to twenty-first century citizenship. The migration milieu of Western capitalism actively requires and refutes the migrant, making a volatile life-world of migration in public discourse, policy and everyday life. Rather than focus on the current conceptual reach of super-diversity, my paper directly engages with whether super-diversity has explanatory cogency for this brutal migration milieu. Vertovec’s original outline of super-diversity points to accelerated migrations in which the elaboration of borders and circumventions have become ‘more multiple’, ‘more stratified’ (Vertovec 2007). While migration processes have discernible scale, breadth and pace, I argue that it is the milieu of history, atmosphere and ideology that is formative. My aim is to relate processes of diversitymaking to the punitive effects of the Europea
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rers20 |
| Additional Information: | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
| Divisions: | Sociology |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Oct 2016 14:11 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2025 05:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/68063 |
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