Diversity

Migration is one of the central drivers in increasing diversity in contemporary societies, especially in cities. “Super-diversity” – the multiplication of the axes of difference (not just by ethnicity, but also by country of origin, legal status, faith and so on) – is a defining feature of our time. The challenge of living with difference is therefore one of the key ethical and political challenges, and understanding how this works is a central question for scholars. There is increasing attention to everyday forms of conviviality emerging from this challenge – but also to the persistence of inequality, division and racism.

Blog Posts

Social integration and cohesion in a time of social distancing

Jacqui Broadhead

Changing roles and new opportunities for the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity

Sarah Spencer and Jacqui Broadhead

Why Migration Policymaking Needs More Migrant Voices [MSc guest blog]

Yan Matusevich

Confessions of a Bad Migrant [MSc guest blog]

Nina Swen

Canada’s Oldest Internally Displaced Peoples [MSc guest blog]

Samim Lambrecht

Migration, Disability, and Plain Language [MSc guest blog]

Jonathan Paul Katz

‘Living as Londoners do’: Cohesion, contradictions, and (religious) difference

COMPAS Communications

Not racist, just resentful

Ben Gidley

Urbanites: indifferent to difference?

Pier-Luc Dupont

Books

Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today

Ben Gidley, Keith Kahn-Harris

Reports

Latin Americans in Southwark: Service access and provision

COMPAS Communications

Resident involvement in the London Borough of Southwark

COMPAS Communications

The COMPAS Approach

Rob McNeil and COMPAS Communications

An Evidence Base on Migration and Integration in London

COMPAS Communications

Diversity in the Labour Market: The Legal Framework and Support Services for Migrants entitled to work in the United Kingdom

Alison Hunter

Employment Support Services and Migrant Integration in the UK Labour Market

Richard Allen

Equality and Diversity in Jobs and Services: City Policies for Migrants in Europe

Sarah Spencer

Equality and Diversity in Jobs and Services: City Policies for Migrants in Europe. Summary

Sarah Spencer

Immigration, Faith and Cohesion. Evidence from Local Areas with Significant Muslim Populations

Hiranthi Jayaweera, Tufyal Choudhury

New Complexities of Cohension in Britatin: Super-diversity, Transnationalism and Civil-Integration

COMPAS Communications

Working Papers

Elephant and Castle: Mapping (Super-)Diversity in the 2011 UK Census

Anna Krausova

Fragile Convivialities: Everyday Living Together in Two Stateless but Diverse Regions, Catalonia and Casamance

Tilmann Heil

“Daughters-in-law of Korea?”: Policies and Discourse on Migration in South Korea

Young Jeong Kim

Commonplace Diversity and the “Ethos of Mixing”: Perceptions of Difference in a London Neighbourhood

Susanne Wessendorf

“To Belong or Not to Belong”: Is that the Question?’ Negotiating Belonging in Multi-Ethnic London

Ellie Vasta, Sofia Hamaz

The Controllability of Difference: Social Solidarity and Immgrant Integration

Richard Allen

Accommodating Diversity: Why Current Critiques of Multiculturalism Miss the Point

Richard Allen

From Ethnic Minorities to Ethnic Majority Policy: Changing Identities and the Shift to Assimilationism in the Netherlands

Richard Allen

The Emergence of Super-Diversity in Britain

COMPAS Communications

Backlash Against Diversity? Identity and Cultural Politics in European Cities

Ralph Grillo

Theoretical Fashions in Australian Immigration Research

Richard Allen

Other Publications

The Global Exchange approach to knowledge-exchange

Sarah Spencer

Resource

Developing a Strategic Approach to Integration in Wales: A practical resource for Local Authorities and their partners in Wales

Sarah Spencer and Siân Sanders

Breakfast Briefing

What are the experiences and concerns of white working class communities?

Daniel Silver

Global Exchange briefings

What works in social integration?: Intergroup contact

Miles Hewstone

Projects

An Evidence Base on Migration and Integration in London

COMPAS Communications | 2009

Changing identities and the shift to assimilationism in the Netherlands

Richard Allen | 2006

Diversity, Integration and the Economy

Richard Allen | April 2005 – March 2008

Engaging with Diversity: Multiculturalism, Integration and Identity

Richard Allen | 2007 - 2009

European network of cities for local integration policies for migrants (CLIP)

Sarah Spencer | 2007 – 2009

Muslims and Community Cohesion in Britain

Sarah Spencer and COMPAS Communications | June 2005 – June 2007

Servicing Super-Diversity: ESRC IAA Knowledge Exchange Fellowship

COMPAS Communications | October 2014 – March 2015

The Health Status of Migrants and Access to Health Care in the UK

COMPAS Communications | 2008 – 2010

Urban Transformations Coordination

Michael Keith, Mikal Mast and Nathan Grassi | 2015 - 2019

Welfare, neighbourhood and new geographies of diversity

COMPAS Communications | May 2013 – December 2014