Book review: Divercities: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods

HENDEL, VERÓNICA

Urban Studies

SAGE

Año: 2023 vol. 60 p. 585 - 588

0042-0980

Cities and diversity have long been a matter of concern for Urban Studies. However, over the past decades, different researchers have shown that cities have become even more diverse. Terms such as ‘super-diversity’ (Vertovec, 2007), ‘conviviality’ (Wessendorf, 2014) or ‘diversification of diversity’ (Erel, 2011) aim to depict the increasing presence of migration that cities have experienced recently, especially as regards to countries of origin, ethnic groups, languages, religions, gender, age profiles and labour market experiences, and the multiplication of immigration legal statuses. Divercities: Understanding super-diversity in deprived and mixed neighbourhoods focuses on how urbanities from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, occupying diverse socio-economic positions, speaking different languages and with different legal statuses, can make life together in their city or neighbourhood.