Superdiversity: Migration and Social Complexity - Paperback

by Steven Vertovec (Author)

Superdiversity explores processes of diversification and the complex, emergent social configurations that now supersede prior forms of diversity in societies around the world.

Author Biography

Steven Vertovec is Founding Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. Previously, he was Professor of Transnational Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and Director of the British Economic and Social Research Council's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS). He is the author of Transnationalism (Routledge, 2009), The Hindu Diaspora: Comparative Patterns (Routledge, 2000), and Hindu Trinidad: Religion, Ethnicity and Socio-economic Change (Palgrave, 1992) and co-author of Diversity and Contact: Immigration and Social Interaction in German Cities (Palgrave, 2016). He is also editor/co-editor of numerous volumes, including Conceiving Cosmopolitanism (Oxford University Press, 2003), The Multiculturalism Backlash (Routledge, 2010), Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies (Routledge, 2015), Diversities Old and New (Palgrave, 2015), and The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity (Oxford University Press, 2022).