Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism New Directions [Paperback]

The field of anthropology of migration and multiculturalism is booming. Throughout its hundred-odd year history, studies of migration and diverse or plural societies have arguably been both marginal and central to the discipline of Anthropology. However, recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of anthropological studies concerning these topics. This has particularly been the case since the 1970s, when anthropologists developed a keen interest in the subject of ethnicity, especially in post-migration communities. Since the 1990s, migrant transnationalism has become one of the most fashionable topics. There is still much to do in research and theory surrounding this field, not least with regard to contemporary public debates around multiculturalism, immigration and integration policy.

This book presents essays pointing toward a number of possible new directions  both theoretical and methodological  for anthropological inquiry into migration and multiculturalism, including innovative ways of examining diversity discourses, urban conditions, social complexities, scales of analysis, transnational marriages, entangled politics and interwoven cultures.

This book was published as a special issue of the Ethnic and Racial Studies.

1. Introduction: New directions in the anthropology of migration and multiculturalism  Steven Vertovec  2. An excess of alterity? Debating difference in a multicultural society  Ralph Grillo  3. How exceptional is New York? Migration and multiculturalism in the empire city  Nancy Foner  4. Super-diversity and its implications  Steven Vertovec  5. Complexity in social and cultural integration: Some analytical dimensions  Thomas Hylland Eriksen  6. Rescaling cities, cultural diversity and transnationalism: Migrantló+