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“A conceptually power-packed volume that is at once erudite and accessible, expansive and focused, true to sociological traditions yet stimulatingly exploratory. Scholars and students will be served very well by this absorbing, far-reaching enquiry into ethnicity and race.” - Raymond Taras, Tulane University “[W]hat Meer offers with this distinctive new volume is a brief survey of the academic approach to key subjects in this area. For example, the entry titled ‘Racialisation’ opens with the provenance of the subject in the works of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon; then Meer traces debates about whether the concept can be projected back upon history... Meer offers in-depth coverage of 28 concepts, including ‘Citizenship,’ ‘Hybridity,’ ‘Intersectionality,’ ‘Post-colonialism,’ ‘Transnationalism,’ and more… Students wanting a guide into the ...
Chapter 26: Super-Diversity
Super-Diversity
As the discussion of migration details, around 3 per cent of the world’s population (around 214 million people) are deemed to be living outside their country of origin or birth (see also transnationalism). While some will naturally take up residency or citizenship in their adopted countries, others will be prevented from doing so, or will not seek to for other reasons discussed in this book. Such diversity is not necessarily novel, however, and so joins that ...
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