Superdiversity

Zane Goebel
University of Queensland, Brisbane
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Discourses about superdiversity can be traced back to Vertovec’s (2007b) paper “Super-diversity and its implications”. In this paper, superdiversity referred to the diversification of diversity in Western European contexts, especially the UK, where this diversification was experienced, commented upon, and bureaucratized (in policy) as a new and potentially troublesome phenomenon. Vertovec offers the following definition of superdiversity:

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