11 research outputs found
StatusDiversity: Methoden der Datenerhebung
No full textIn diesem Teilbericht wird die Entwicklung des innovativen Interviewinstruments digital-narrative- photo-elicitation (DNP) zur Erhebung von Migrations-Status-Geschichten beschrieben. Die im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes StatusDiversity angelegte Forschung will durch die Rekonstruktion individueller Migrations-Status-Geschichten besser verstehen, wie räumlich und zeitlich differenzierte Muster von legal status diversity entstehen (Meissner 2017). Neben der reinen Entwicklung der DNP wird auch das Vorgehen bei der methodischen Realisierung der Datenerhebung reflektiert, insbesondere der Zugang zu und die Auswahl von InterviewpartnerInnen. Abschließend wird das Vorgehen zur Auswertung der mit Hilfe der DNP gesammelten Daten erläutert.OLD Urban Renewal and Housin
Of straw figures and multi-stakeholder monitoring: a response to Willem Schinkel
No full textThis article is a response to Willem Schinkel’s provocation piece. While mostly agreeing with Schinkel, my response questions Schinkel’s commitment to losing immigrant integration as an object of analysis. I point to the integrationist logic with which Schinkel assaults superdiversity, to more broadly question how prescriptive a social science that is ‘against immigrant integration’ should be.OLD Urban Renewal and Housin
Legal status diversity: regulating to control and everyday contingencies
No full textTracing the link between population flux and the regulation of migration, this paper develops the argument that immigration status differentiations impact not only on categorical multiplicities but also on contingent dynamics in urban migration-related diversity. A better understanding of those contingencies is central to discussing processes of adaptation in contexts of superdiversity. I first point to the frequency of change in rules and regulations pertaining to a multiplicity of immigration statuses. I then emphasise the co-relevance of conditionalities of entry and parameters of presence, set out by those rules, as central components of legal status diversity. In a third part I consider the resulting differentiations in terms of information overload. Thinking about status differentiations as information contradicts devising ever more status tracks to order migration and optimise its economic and social implications. I then point to empirical patterns in legal status diversities emphasising spatiotemporal contingencies in admitting migrants through different immigration channels. Concurrently I highlight why the resulting patterns of change are relevant for local urban diversity dynamics. I conclude the paper by drawing parallels between on the one hand steering migration to optimise its implications and on the other hand steering adaptations in superdiverse contexts to optimise integration.OLD Urban Renewal and Housin
From integration mainstreaming to convivial disintegration: how superdiversity shows the pitfalls of (mainstreaming) immigrant integration
No full textThe emergent literature on mainstreaming immigrant integration frequently references the term superdiversity. The diversification of migration is put forward as one rational for implementing measures to support immigrant integration across policy fields and across levels of policy making. In this paper I reflect on those assertions and argue that contrarily using superdiversity is not an argument in favour of mainstreaming immigrant integration, but that instead a superdiversity lens is uniquely placed to critically examine whether the goal of mainstreaming should be integration at all. To move this argument forward I propose more concertedly thinking about the merits of better understanding convivial disintegration as a more adequate starting point for thinking through the social and economic implications of international migration and how to address them through policy interventions.OLD Urban Renewal and Housin
Mainstreaming and superdiversity: Beyond more integration
No full textThe emergent literature on mainstreaming immigrant integration frequently references the term ‘superdiversity’. The diversification of migration is put forward as one rationale for implementing measures to support immigrant integration across policy fields and across levels of policy making. In this chapter and against the backdrop of the book’s empirical work, I ask how else, beyond being a rationale for mainstreaming, thinking about superdiversity might add to debates about what is mainstreamed. I primarily advance the argument that a superdiversity lens is uniquely placed to critically examine whether the goal of mainstreaming should be integration and propose to consider the merits of thinking about convivial disintegration as a more adequate policy goal
A Crisis of Opportunity: Market‐Making, Big Data, and the Consolidation of Migration as Risk
No full textCrisis narratives surrounding Europe’s 2015 migration influx fuelled demands for new ways of tracking, mapping and predicting human mobility. We explore how market opportunities for technology firms and data analytics start‐ups created by the EU’s Global Approach to Migration led to solutionistic approaches to compiling and analysing migration statistics. We show that initiatives such as the rebranding of existing platforms and services as migration prediction systems are consolidating policy conceptualisations of migration as risk. Despite the promise of greater granularity, this “big data approach” cannot offer greater certainty about who is on the move and why. Instead such approaches are ill‐suited to understanding the complex dynamics of migration and to offering protection to vulnerable people. The marketisation of migration statistics through big data offers a key case for advancing progressive approaches to both migration statistics and global data justice
Deromanticising integration. On the importance of convivial disintegration
No full textIn light of current experiences with migration-driven diversification, is it still conducive to think about the effects of international migration by advocating for immigrant integration? This article argues that there are key problems with European uses of immigrant integration logics that cannot be resolved through redefinitions or reappropriations of the term. Even highly refined notions of immigrant integration misconstrue the role and relevance of differences in diversity dynamics. Immigrant integration further risks concealing and perpetuating power dynamics and (colonial) hierarchies. These continue to shape the social relevance of differences. Analytically thinking about superdiversity directs us to paying more attention to disintegration, a notion that cannot be reduced and measured by way of individual or group performance. To be able to usefully engage with disintegration, we argue that it needs to be divorced from ideas about social fragmentation and social collapse. To do this, we draw on recent developments in the literature on conviviality to emphasise the relational practices, power asymmetries, and materialities that enter into negotiations of difference. Convivial disintegration aptly addresses continuously reconfiguring and uncertain social environments. Our article thus provides a deromanticised and enabling provocation for easing integration anxieties.sponsorship: This work was supported by the European Union's Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Grant Agreement No. [707124]; the Research Foundation -Flanders (FWO) and the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant [665501]. (European Union's Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Grant|707124, Research Foundation -Flanders (FWO), European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant|665501, Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)|707124)status: Publishe
Entwicklung und Potentiale digitaler Raumforschung: Ethische Fragestellungen und Impulse für die Hochschullehre
No full textDer allgemeine gesellschaftliche Trend der Digi-talisierung zeigt sich auch in einer zunehmenden Technologisierung innerhalb der Raumforschung und -planung. Ein mittlerweile flächendeckender Einsatz von CAD- und GIS-Software, die zudem immer leistungsfähiger wird, macht diesen Wandel deutlich. Die Digitalisierung eröffnet sowohl Chan-cen als auch Risiken in der räumlichen Planung und Forschung. Lehrressourcen und digitale Forschungs-tools existieren aber bisher kaum. Mit diesem Artikel stellen wir Best-Practice Beispiele vor und geben Empfehlungen für zeitgemäße Hochschullehre.OLD Urban Renewal and Housin
Mainstreaming and superdiversity: Beyond more integration
No full textThe emergent literature on mainstreaming immigrant integration frequently references the term ‘superdiversity’. The diversification of migration is put forward as one rationale for implementing measures to support immigrant integration across policy fields and across levels of policy making. In this chapter and against the backdrop of the book’s empirical work, I ask how else, beyond being a rationale for mainstreaming, thinking about superdiversity might add to debates about what is mainstreamed. I primarily advance the argument that a superdiversity lens is uniquely placed to critically examine whether the goal of mainstreaming should be integration and propose to consider the merits of thinking about convivial disintegration as a more adequate policy goal
Citation of serials and some books
No full textThe abbreviations used are in general in conformity with common usage in botanical taxonomy, though, where possible, the citation has been limited to the minimum necessary for strict taxonomic reference, e.g.: ‘F.v.M. Fragm.’—for F. VON MUELLER, Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae, ‘Walp. Ann.’—for Walpers, Annales, ‘BAILEY, Compr. Cat. Q. Pl.’—for F. M. BAILEY, Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants. ‘In’ after the author’s name has been used only if one author has published in the work of another author, e.g.: ‘BENTH. in B. & H. Gen. Pl.’, ‘CLARKE in Hook. f. & Th. Fl. Br. Ind.’, or in the serial which, for the sake of clearness should be preceded by the name of its editor, e.g. ‘SCHLTR in Fedde, Rep.’; ‘Rep.’ alone would not be sufficient, since there are several repertoria
