Diversities Old and New [electronic resource] : Migration and Socio-Spatial Patterns in New York, Singapore and Johannesburg /
Vertovec, S.editor.
Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Maps and Photos; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Migration, Cities, Diversities 'Old' and 'New'; Part I: Examining Diversities Old and New; 2 Astoria, New York City; 3 Jurong West, Singapore; 4 Hillbrow, Johannesburg; Part II: Diversities and Spaces: Coming Together and Remaining Apart; 5 Religion in Public Spaces of Astoria; 6 Boundaries and Surveillance in Astoria; 7 Encounter, Transport and Transitory Spaces; 8 Flea Markets and Familiar Strangers in Jurong West; 9 Homelessness in Berea Park, Hillbrow
10 Precarity and Intimacy in Super-Diverse HillbrowPart III: Socio-Spatial Patterns of Encountering Diversity; 11 Route-ines; Circumscribed mobilities, Junjia Ye and Alex Wafer; Market exchanges, Sofya Aptekar and Rajohane Matshedisho; For the kids, Laavanya Kathiravelu and Anna Cieslik; Conclusion; 12 Rooms without Walls; The closest of proximities, Sofya Aptekar and Laavanya Kathiravelu; Cards and clusters, Junjia Ye and Alex Wafer; Soccer as social glue, Rajohane Matshedisho and Sofya Aptekar; Singular and multiple affinities, Anna Cieslik and Junjia Ye; Conclusion
13 Corridors of DissociationChosen paths? Alex Wafer and Junjia Ye; Talk to me, Anna Cieslik and Rajohane Matshedisho; Exclusive or exclusionary? Laavanya Kathiravelu and Alex Wafer; Conclusion; 14 Conclusion; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented.
Emigration and immigration.
Sociology, Urban.
Sociology.
Anthropology.
Ethnicity.
Human geography.
Migration.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Sociology, general.
Anthropology.
Ethnicity Studies.
Human Geography.