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New Complexities and Challenges of Diversity

New Complexities and Challenges of Diversity. Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec. New Complexities and Challenges of Diversity. diversity is not what it used to be… ‘diversification of diversity’, esp. since c.1990 Migration flows / origins

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New Complexities and Challenges of Diversity

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  1. New Complexities and Challenges of Diversity Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec

  2. New Complexities and Challenges of Diversity diversity is not what it used to be… • ‘diversification of diversity’, esp. since c.1990 • Migration flows / origins • Migration categories / channels • Social & policy implications

  3. I. Migration flows / origins In-migration, United Kingdom 1993-2002 2002

  4. Newham (pop. 243,898) by country of birth source: 2001 Census

  5. Germany - Foreigners

  6. In-migration, Germany 2006

  7. Proliferation of Legal Statusesand Migration Channels • II. Migration categories / channels • EU nationals • Students • Work permit holders • Asylum-seekers • Sector worker schemes • Refugees • Highly Skilled • Leave to Remain • Spouses and family • Right to Settle • Spätaussiedler • Undocumented

  8. citizens refugees exceptional leave to remain undocumented migrants refugee status granted in other EU country asylum-seekers Differing Migration Channel & Legal Status…even within same country of origin group e.g. Somalis in UK

  9. Origins & Legal Categories impact upon characteristics of migrant populations by: -- gender -- age -- education -- employment -- duration / temporality -- family / single -- locality / mobility -- class -- modes of transnationalism

  10. Global Trends • International Organization for Migration UN Population Division note ongoing diversification of migrants’ countries of origin & channels of migration • Global Commission on International Migrationpoints to continuing – if not increasing – flows and forms of mobility

  11. Some implications III. Social & policy impacts • No common process of integration; therefore false to presume ‘one size fits all’ integration policy • ‘diversity-in-integration’ policy, yes… but diversity is not just a set of big, similar-condition groups • Social, political and economic success will be determined by how well societies adapt themselves to increasing complexity (not how they fight it)

  12. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany tel. +49/0 551 4956-0, fax +49/0 551 4956-111 www.mmg.mpg.de

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