Deromanticising integration: On the importance of convivial disintegration

In 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...

A Crisis of Opportunity: Market‐Making, Big Data, and the Consolidation of Migration as Risk

Crisis 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...

Of straw figures and multi-stakeholder monitoring: a response to Willem Schinkel

This 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...

From integration mainstreaming to convivial disintegration: how superdiversity shows the pitfalls of (mainstreaming) immigrant integration

The 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...

Entwicklung und Potentiale digitaler Raumforschung: Ethische Fragestellungen und Impulse für die Hochschullehre

Der 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...

StatusDiversity: Methoden der Datenerhebung

In 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...

Mainstreaming and superdiversity: Beyond more integration

The 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...

Legal status diversity: regulating to control and everyday contingencies

Tracing 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...