Super-diversity and its implications
Super-diversity and its implications
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DOI：
10.1080/01419870701599465
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Vertovec, Steven
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作者：
Vertovec, Steven
英国的多样性已今非昔比。大约三十年来，政府的政策、社会服务实践和公众观念都是以对移民和多元文化多样性的特殊理解为框架的。也就是说，英国的移民和少数民族人口传统上的特点是来自英联邦国家或前殖民地的公民组成的大型、组织良好的非洲-加勒比和南亚社区。政策框架和公众理解--事实上，社会科学的许多领域--都没有跟上最近出现的人口和社会模式。英国现在可以用“超级多样性”来形容，这一概念旨在强调一种程度和种类的复杂性，这种复杂性超过了这个国家以前所经历的任何事情。这种情况的特点是，在过去十年中抵达的人数越来越多的新移民之间各种变量的动态相互作用，这些新移民人数少而分散，来自多个国家，有跨国联系，社会经济上有差异，法律上有阶层。这里概述了超级多样性的新模式对政策和研究都提出了重大挑战。
Diversity in Britain is not what it used to be. Some thirty years of government policies, social service practices and public perceptions have been framed by a particular understanding of immigration and multi-cultural diversity. That is, Britain's immigrant and ethnic minority population has conventionally been characterized by large, well-organized African-Caribbean and South Asian communities of citizens originally from Commonwealth countries or formerly colonial territories. Policy frameworks and public understanding - and, indeed, many areas of social science - have not caught up with recently emergent demographic and social patterns. Britain can now be characterized by 'super-diversity,' a notion intended to underline a level and kind of complexity surpassing anything the country has previously experienced. Such a condition is distinguished by a dynamic interplay of variables among an increased number of new, small and scattered, multiple-origin, transnationally connected, socio-economically differentiated and legally stratified immigrants who have arrived over the last decade. Outlined here, new patterns of super-diversity pose significant challenges for both policy and research.