Divercities: Understanding super diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods

Divercities: Understanding super diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods

by Gert Verschraegen (Editor), Gert Verschraegen (Editor), Ronald van Kempen (Editor), Stijn Oosterlynck (Author)

Synopsis

This edited collection provides a comparative international perspective on superdiversity in cities, with explicit attention given to social inequality and social exclusion on a neighbourhood level. Focusing on the active and creative ways in which residents come together, the book uncovers the ways in which national and local contexts shape living in diversity.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: 1
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 01 Jun 2018

ISBN 10: 1447338170
ISBN 13: 9781447338178

Author Bio
Stijn Oosterlynck is Associate Professor in Urban Sociology at the University of Antwerp. His research is concerned with local social innovation and welfare state restructuring, the political sociology of urban development, urban renewal and community building and new forms of solidarity in diversity. Gert Verschraegen is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Antwerp. His research is concerned with numerical governance, Europeanization, science and society, (social) innovation, cultural diversity in cities and the sociology of human rights and asylum. The late Ronald van Kempen was Professor of Urban Geography at Utrecht University. His research focused on urban spatial segregation, urban diversity, housing, urban governance and its effects on neighbourhoods and residents, social exclusion, and minority ethnic groups.