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Diversities old and new : migration and socio-spatial patterns in New York, Singapore and Johannesburg /

"How can people live together, with ever more diverse characteristics, in the world's rapidly expanding cities? The UN estimates a doubling of the world's urban population by 2050. Meanwhile, global migration flows show profound diversification of migrants' nationality, ethnicity...

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Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2015.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Global diversities
Subjects:
Immigrants > New York State > New York
Immigrants > Singapore
Immigrants > South Africa
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban
Ethnic relations
Immigrants
New York N.Y. > Ethnic relations
Singapore > Ethnic relations
South Africa > Ethnic relations
New York State > New York
Singapore
South Africa
Summary: "How can people live together, with ever more diverse characteristics, in the world's rapidly expanding cities? The UN estimates a doubling of the world's urban population by 2050. Meanwhile, global migration flows show profound diversification of migrants' nationality, ethnicity, language, gender balance, age, human capital and legal status. Everywhere, migrants with complex 'new diversity' traits dwell in cities alongside people from previous, 'old diversity' waves. That is, since new migrants tend to inhabit those urban spaces which still play host to migrants from previous waves, these n
Carrier Form: xiv, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index.
ISBN: 9781137495471
1137495472
Index Number: JV7048
CLC: D523.8
Call Number: D523.8/D618
Contents: 1. Introduction : Migration, Cities, Diversities 'Old' and 'New' / Steven Vertovec -- PART I. EXAMINING DIVERSITIES OLD AND NEW. 2. Astoria, New York City / Sofya Aptekar and Anna Cieslik -- 3. Jurong West, Singapore / Laavanya Kathiravelu and Junjia Ye -- 4. Hillbrow, Johannesburg / Rajohane Matshedisho and Alex Wafer -- PART II. DIVERSITIES AND SPACES : COMING TOGETHER AND REMAINING APART. 5. Religion in Public Spaces of Astoria / Anna Cieslik -- 6. Boundaries and Surveillance in Astoria / Sofya Aptekar -- 7. Encounter, Transport and Transitory Spaces in Jurong West / Laavanya Kathiravelu

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