Interview with Sam Ellison, Fulbright postgraduate on the MA in Migration, Superdiversity and Policy.
Studying superdiversity at Birmingham: a student experience
How language differences are bridged in public-space social interactions
Drawing on an ethnographic study in the London Borough of Hackney, Susanne Wessendorf explains how language differences are skilfully bridged in public-space social interactions, for example at markets or in shops. This new IRiS Working Paper (n.9) shows how language differentially influences the kinds of social relations people form when it comes to more intimate social... Continue Reading →
Job vacancy on ESRC project ‘Becoming adult: Futures & wellbeing of former unaccompanied minors’
The Institute for Research into Superdiversity is seeking to recruit a Research Associate to work on a new ESRC-funded research project on the transitions to adulthood of former unaccompanied migrant minors. This ESRC-funded research is a collaboration between the School of Social Policy’s Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS), and the University of Oxford’s Department... Continue Reading →
New UK government out of ideas on immigration, says Nando Sigona
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Talking heads: Professor Jenny Phillimore @japhillimore
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Ya’ Gotta’ love baseball: Resource caravan passageways and immigrant integration – distinguished lecture
Time & Venue: 2nd July, 5.30 pm, Room G15, Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham Personal, social and material resource loss and gain is instrumental in immigrant life and host-immigrant conflict. Using the "love of baseball" metaphor, which has long been a standard for immigrant acceptance in the United States, Professor Stevan Hobfoll (The Judd and... Continue Reading →
Commonplace diversity: stable and peaceful relations across myriad differences in Hackney
Much current public and political debate about immigration and diversity assumes that there should be tensions on the grounds of ethnic and religious differences. In the London Borough of Hackney, however, diversity is the norm and, as a result of a long history of diversification, cultural and religious differences are rarely issues of contestation. There seem... Continue Reading →
Intersectionality and superdiversity: What’s the difference?
Report on the first roundtable of the IRiS Key Concepts series by Rachel Humphris, IRiS Associate Researcher The IRiS Key Concepts Roundtable series brings scholars together to discuss and interrogate the theoretical and analytical contours of superdiversity through its relationships to other germane concepts. Building on insights from the 2014 IRiS International Conference and a... Continue Reading →
Asylum crisis? What crisis?
by Jenny Phillimore @japhillimore With the monthly asylum application figures published today and these demonstrating a 527 reduction in the number of asylum seekers making their claims on British soil from 2751 in January 2015 and from 2370 the equivalent period last year, I find myself wondering why have the numbers decreased? Indeed the general... Continue Reading →
The Age of Superdiversity 