Public institutions and civil society organisations
The focus here is on the state at different levels, social and legal categorizations and meso-level organisations. Do organisations and political institutions reflect diversity or established privileges? Are they open or closed to change?
PEOPLE
CURRENT PROJECTS
Belonging on a continuum: legal status journeys and social membership
Diversity, contestation and migration in education
Linguistic diversities: interrogating the complex multiplicity of the social and political life of language
The new guards: re-bordering the Southeast Mediterranean in an age of migration
Political institutions and the challenge of diversity
ZOMiDi · Civil society organizations and the challenges of migration and diversity: agents of change
SELECTED THEMATIC PUBLICATIONS
Vertovec, S.: The social organization of difference. Ethnic and Racial Studies 44 (8), 2021: 1273-1295. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2021.1884733 to personal page
Vertovec, S.; Hiebert, D.; Spoonley, P.; Gamlen, A.: Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity. Urban Geography (online first), 2022. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2022.2151753 to personal page
Lukate, J. M.: On the precariousness of address: What narratives of being called White can tell us about researching and re/producing social categories in research. British Journal of Social Psychology 62 (1), 2023: 56-70. DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12615 to personal page
Peled, Y.: The practical ethics of linguistic integration: Three challenges. Metaphilosophy 54 (5), 2023: 583-597. DOI: 10.1111/meta.12653 to personal page
Sobhy, H.: The lived social contract in schools: From protection to the production of hegemony. World Development 137, 104986, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104986 to personal page
Debele, S. B.: Of taming carnal desire. Imperial roots of legislating sexual practices in contemporary Ethiopia. History of the Present 10 (1), 2020: 84-100. DOI: 10.1215/21599785-8221434 to personal page
Simone, A.: Cities of the Global South. Annual Review of Sociology 46, 2020: 603-622. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054602 to personal page
Yamamura, S.: From global city makers to global city-shapers: Migration industries in the global city networks. Urban Studies 59 (11), 2022: 2234-2254. DOI: 10.1177/00420980221087927 to personal page
Schader, M.: Externalization or imitation: the 2015–16 asylum-seeker immigration as a catalyst for local structural change. Ethnic and Racial Studies 43 (11), 2020: 2022-2040. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1763417 to personal page
Seethaler-Wari, S.; Yanasmayan, Z.: Unfolding intersecting forms of socio-spatial exclusion: Accommodation centres at the height of the “refugee reception crisis” in Germany. International Migration 61 (3), 2023: 39-53. DOI: 10.1111/imig.13140 to personal page to personal page
Lang, C.: Workforce diversity policies in practice: drivers and barriers in local administrations. Ethnic and Racial Studies 43 (11), 2020: 1961-1980. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1754444 to project page
Moutselos, M.: What explains diversity-policy adoption? Policy entrepreneurs and advocacy coalitions in two French cities. Ethnic and Racial Studies 43 (11), 2020: 2001-2021. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1751861 to project page
Schiller, M.; Lang, C.; Schönwälder, K.; Moutselos, M.: Vielfalt and diversité: How local actors in France and Germany evaluate immigration and socio-cultural heterogeneity. Comparative Migration Studies 8 (no 48), 2020: 1-17. DOI: 10.1186/s40878-020-00205-1 to project page
Schönwälder, K.: Diversity in local political practice. Ethnic and Racial Studies 43 (11), 2020: 1929-1941. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1760329 to project page
Schönwälder, K.; Bloemraad, I.: Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Representation in Europe: Conceptual Challenges and Theoretical Approaches. West European Politics, 36 (3), 2013: 564-579. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2013.773724 to project page
Moutselos, M.; Schönwälder, K.: The immigrant presence in collaborative structures of urban politics. Governance 35 (1), 2022: 303-321. DOI: 10.1111/gove.12581 to project page