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Mooring ‘super-diversity’ to a brutal migration milieu

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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Identification Number: 10.1080/01419870.2017.1300296

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
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: 17 Mar 2024 06:24
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/68063

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