Making the most of super-diversity: notes on the potential of a new approach. (27th October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Magazzini, Tina
• Is Part Of: Policy and politics. Volume 45:Number 4(2017)
• Page Start: 527
• Page End: 545
• Publication Date: 2017-10-27
• Subjects: SUPER-DIVERSITY -- DIFFERENCE -- IDENTITY -- MULTICULTURALISM; Local government -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Policy sciences -- Periodicals; Political science -- Periodicals; 320.605
• DOI: 10.1332/030557317X14972819300753
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0305-5736

Abstract

Abstract : This article aims at exploring how 'super-diversity' can cover aspects of current debates that traditional ways of understanding identity and multiculturalism could not. I start by engaging with Gilles Deleuze's differential ontology, which conceptualises difference as an inherent feature of identity and not some 'issue' brought by migration flows. I then outline super-diversity's potential implications for diversity management, with particular attention to the case of Roma minorities in Europe. The main argument is that super-diversity can provide a promising framework to address some of multiculturalism's constraints, if we focus on the new kind, rather than the new level, of complexity.