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53 produkter
Commonplace Diversity: Social Relations in a Super-Diverse Context
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Wessendorf explores life in a super-diverse urban neighbourhood. The book presents a vivid account of the daily doings and social relations among the residents and how they pragmatically negotiate difference in their everyday lives.
Class Inequality in the Global City
Migrants, Workers and Cosmopolitanism in Singapore
Av J. Ye
Inbunden, 2016
880 kr
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In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants. This book tells the story of one such city, revealing how national development produces both aspirations to be cosmopolitan and to improve …
Governing through Diversity
Migration Societies in Post-Multiculturalist Times
Av Tatiana Matejskova, Marco Antonsich
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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This cross-disciplinary edited collection presents an integrated approach to critical diversity studies by gathering original scholarly research on ideational, technical and actual social dimensions of contemporary governance through diversity.
Atheist Secularism and its Discontents
A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia
Av T. Ngo, J. Quijada
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents takes a comparative approach to understanding religion under communism, arguing that communism was integral to the global experience of secularism. Bringing together leading researchers whose work spans the Eurasian continent, it shows that appropriating …
Migrant Dubai
Low Wage Workers and the Construction of a Global City
Inbunden, 2015
1098 kr
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This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Dubai shows that even within highly restrictive mobility regimes, marginalized migrants find ways to cope with structural inequalities and quotidian modes …
Migration and Religion in East Asia
North Korean Migrants’ Evangelical Encounters
Inbunden, 2015
934 kr
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This book sheds light on North Korean migrants' Christian encounters and conversions throughout the process of migration and settlement. Focusing on churches as primary contact zones, it highlights the ways in which the migrants and their evangelical counterparts both draw on and contest each …
How Generations Remember
Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
Inbunden, 2016
322 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective …
Socialising with Diversity
Relational Diversity through a Superdiversity Lens
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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This book analyses post-migration social networks via the notion of superdiversity. Approaching diversity as relational and complexly configured through multiple migration-related differentiations, it challenges us to rethink how we talk about and classify migrant networks. Based on research in two …
Diversities Old and New
Migration and Socio-Spatial Patterns in New York, Singapore and Johannesburg
Av S. Vertovec
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and …
European Cities, Municipal Organizations and Diversity
The New Politics of Difference
Inbunden, 2016
552 kr
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This book challengesthe prevailing view that local authorities are irrelevant in immigrationpolicy-making. Presenting an in-depth ethnographic study of the recentimplementation of local ‘diversity policies’ in the Netherlands, Belgium andUnited Kingdom, it identifies a new politics of difference, …
Forging African Communities
Mobility, Integration and Belonging
Av Oliver Bakewell, Loren B. Landau
Inbunden, 2017
989 kr
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This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements. In doing so, it complements vibrant scholarly and political discussions of migrant integration globally with innovative, interdisciplinary perspectives focused on …
Diversity and Contact
Immigration and Social Interaction in German Cities
Av Karen Schönwälder, Sören Petermann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1098 kr
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This book analyzes how the socio-demographic and cultural diversity of societies affect the social interactions and attitudes of individuals and groups within them. Focusing on Germany, where in some cities more than one third of the population are first or second-generation immigrants, it examines …
Routes and Rites to the City
Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg
Av Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Lorena Núñez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1425 kr
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This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It analyses transnational and local migration in contemporary and historical perspective, along with movements of commodities, ideas, sounds and …
Commonplace Diversity: Social Relations in a Super-Diverse Context
Häftad, 2014
552 kr
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Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Wessendorf explores life in a super-diverse urban neighbourhood. The book presents a vivid account of the daily doings and social relations among the residents and how they pragmatically negotiate difference in their everyday lives.
Diversities Old and New
Migration and Socio-Spatial Patterns in New York, Singapore and Johannesburg
Av S. Vertovec
Häftad, 2015
552 kr
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Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and …
Class Inequality in the Global City
Migrants, Workers and Cosmopolitanism in Singapore
Av J. Ye
Häftad, 2020
880 kr
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In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants. This book tells the story of one such city, revealing how national development produces both aspirations to be cosmopolitan and to improve …
Routes and Rites to the City
Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg
Av Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Lorena Núñez m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
989 kr
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This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It analyses transnational and local migration in contemporary and historical perspective, along with movements of commodities, ideas, sounds and …
Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia
Av Kenneth Dean, Peter van der Veer
Häftad, 2019
934 kr
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This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West. Its authors highlight that terms like ‘secular’, ‘secularization’, and ‘secularism’ do not carry the same …
Protestantism in Xiamen
Then and Now
Av Chris White
Häftad, 2019
906 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present. This important regional study is particularly revealing due to the unbroken history of Sino-Christian …
Institutions and Organizations of Refugee Integration
Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian Refugees in Sweden
Av Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Vedran Omanović m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
607 kr
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This book examines the integration experiences of refugees to Sweden from Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), and more recently from Syria (2014-2018) - two of the largest-scale refugee movements in Europe for the last thirty years.It focuses on refugees’ interactions with key institutions of …
Internal Diversity
Iranian Germans Between Local Boundaries and Transnational Capital
Inbunden, 2019
774 kr
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This book explores the interrelation between diversity in migrants’ internal relations and their experience of inequality in local and global contexts. Taking the case of Hamburg-based Iranians, it traces evaluation processes in ties between professionals – artists and entrepreneurs – since the …
Internal Diversity
Iranian Germans Between Local Boundaries and Transnational Capital
Häftad, 2020
590 kr
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This book explores the interrelation between diversity in migrants’ internal relations and their experience of inequality in local and global contexts. Taking the case of Hamburg-based Iranians, it traces evaluation processes in ties between professionals – artists and entrepreneurs – since the …
Superdiverse Diaspora
Everyday Identifications of Tamil Migrants in Britain
Inbunden, 2019
774 kr
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Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, this book provides a nuanced picture of the everyday identifications experienced and expressed among the superdiverse Tamil migrant population in Britain. It presents the first detailed analysis of the narrative and experiences of Tamils from a diversity of …
Superdiverse Diaspora
Everyday Identifications of Tamil Migrants in Britain
Häftad, 2020
555 kr
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Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, this book provides a nuanced picture of the everyday identifications experienced and expressed among the superdiverse Tamil migrant population in Britain. It presents the first detailed analysis of the narrative and experiences of Tamils from a diversity of …
Comparing Conviviality
Living with Difference in Casamance and Catalonia
Av Tilmann Heil
Inbunden, 2020
991 kr
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In a world where difference is often seen as a threat or challenge, Comparing Conviviality explores how people actually live in diverse societies. Based on a long-term ethnography of West Africans in both Senegal and Spain, this book proposes that conviviality is a commitment to difference, across …
Comparing Conviviality
Living with Difference in Casamance and Catalonia
Av Tilmann Heil
Häftad, 2021
991 kr
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In a world where difference is often seen as a threat or challenge, Comparing Conviviality explores how people actually live in diverse societies. Based on a long-term ethnography of West Africans in both Senegal and Spain, this book proposes that conviviality is a commitment to difference, across …
Mainstreaming versus Alienation
A Complexity Approach to the Governance of Migration and Diversity
Inbunden, 2020
555 kr
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This book explores the role of complexity in the governance of migration and diversity. Current policy processes often fail to adequately capture complexity, favouring ‘quick fix’ approaches to regulation and integration that result in various forms of alienation: problem alienation, institutional …
Mainstreaming versus Alienation
A Complexity Approach to the Governance of Migration and Diversity
Häftad, 2021
555 kr
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This book explores the role of complexity in the governance of migration and diversity. Current policy processes often fail to adequately capture complexity, favouring ‘quick fix’ approaches to regulation and integration that result in various forms of alienation: problem alienation, institutional …
Organised Cultural Encounters
Practices of Transformation
Av Lise Paulsen Galal, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen
Inbunden, 2020
1425 kr
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This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe. Organised cultural encounters is an umbrella concept referring to face-to-face encounters that are organised across a wide variety of social arenas in order to manage and/or transform problems …
Organised Cultural Encounters
Practices of Transformation
Av Lise Paulsen Galal, Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen
Häftad, 2021
1425 kr
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This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe. Organised cultural encounters is an umbrella concept referring to face-to-face encounters that are organised across a wide variety of social arenas in order to manage and/or transform problems …
