Governing through Diversity Migration Societies in Post-Multiculturalist Times [Hardcover]

This cross-disciplinary edited collection presents an integrated approach to critical diversity studies by gathering original scholarly research on ideational, technical and actual social dimensions of contemporary governance through diversity.

Cristina Allemann-Ghionda, University of Cologne, Germany Marco Antonsich, University of Loughborough, UK Paolo Boccagni, University of Trento, Italy Christine Carabain, Dutch Expertise and Advisory Centre for Citizenship and International Cooperation (NCDO), the Netherlands Nir Cohen, Bar Ilan University, Israel Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University, Germany Halleh Ghorashi, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Mary Gilmartin, Maynooth University, Ireland Piotr Goldstein, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Louise Holt, Loughborough University, UK Tatiana Matejskova, Roskilde University, Denmark Elizabeth Mavroudi, Loughborough University, UK Ewa Szepietowska, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Gill Valentine, University of Sheffield, UK Governing through Diversity is an important and timely book. It makes a vital contribution to debates around multiculturalism and integration and to fields as varied as education, philanthropy and language policy. 'Diversity' has become a ubiquitous concept across several policy fields, but is rarely rigorously conceptualised. This volume, which includes contributions from some of the most important scholars now working in this field, brings fresh clarity to this murky terrain. Its contribution is in carefully unpacking the normative assumptions hidden in mundane descriptions of diversity, and showing that diversity is not a thing out there to be governed, but, rather, a specific modality through which social differences are understood and then managed. The book's theoretical sophistication is grounded in rich and varied empirical case studies from sites ranging from Ireland to Israel. Crucially, Governing through Diversity presents alternative approaches to thil³³