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Superdiversity: Theory, Method and Practice 23-25 June 2014, University of Birmingham

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

DAY 1, 23rd June Venue

8.00-onward Registration & Coffee Atrium

9-9.30 Welcome

Professor David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham

Professor Jenny Phillimore, Director of IRiS

Dr Nando Sigona, Conference Convenor

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9.30-11.00

Plenary Session

Researching superdiversity: spaces, encounters and contexts

Chair: Dr Paramjit Gill (University of Birmingham)

Professor Gill Valentine (University of Sheffield), Encounters in an age of diversity: reflections on spatial normativities in public life and the future of social relations

Professor James Nazroo (University of Manchester), Theorising and researching ethnic inequalities in health in the context of ‘superdiversity’: Do we need to do more?

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11-11.30 Coffee break Atrium

11.30-1.00

Panel Session 1

1) Notions of health and wellbeing in superdiverse communities and global neighbourhoods

Chair: Symeon Dagkas (University of East London)

Symeon Dagkas (University of East London) Migrant and ethnic minority families’ notions of health and wellbeing in superdiverse communities and global neighbourhoods

Whitney Babakus-Curry (University of East London) Measuring Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in Superdiverse Communities in the UK

Janice Lee Thompson (University of Birmingham)Migration, Nutrition and Ageing Across the Lifecourse in Bangladeshi Families: A Transnational Perspective (MINA)

Discussant: Jenny Phillimore

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2) Interacting in a diverse classroom

Chair: Angela Creese

Katherine Swinney (University of Sheffield) Collaborative Community Research: How is English learned by adult immigrants in the classroom used in a super-diverse community

Perrine Devleeshouwer (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Identities and belonging: the role of educational career. A case study of youth with a foreign background in Brussels

Panayiota Charalambous and Constadina Charalambous (European University Cyprus) Diffractions of Turkishness in a superdiverse Greek-Cypriot classroom

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3) Citizenship regimes and politics of belonging

Chair: Kelly Hall

Elisabeth Badenhoop (University of Glasgow) Identity politics in contemporary nation-states: A critical evaluation of the current British citizenship regime

Kate Kipling (University of Leeds) Making British citizens: The role of citizenship ceremonies and tests in promoting integration and belonging

Katherine Tonkiss (University of Birmingham) Constructing the Good Citizen in an Era of Superdiversity: Contested in the British Citizenship Test

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4) Superdiversity under the same roof

Chair: Aleksandra Kazlowska

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Mengxi Pang (University of Glasgow)Superdiversity Under the Same Roof: Exploring ‘Mixed-race’ Identities in Interracial Families

Adela Souralova (Masaryk University) GrandMotherland: Narratives of Kinship and Narratives of Belonging

Agata Lisiak (Humboldt University Berlin) Displaying Migrant Motherhood and Urban Superdiversity

5) Diversity management and community engagement

Chair: Ricky Joseph

Nuno Oliveira (CIES ISCTE-IUL ) Cosmopolitan challenges to local governance

Ricard Moren-Alegret (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Dawid Wladyka (The University of Texas at Brownsville) and Albert Mas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) The neighbourhood forum as a community engagement tool in superdiverse areas: experiences from Barcelona

Roberta Medda-Windischer (European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC)-Institute for Minority Rights) Migration and Diversity Management in Traditionally Divided Society. The case of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol

Peter Kankonde (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) Superdiversity, Migrants’ Religious Entrepreneurship, and Social Transformation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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6) Music, football and cars: reinventing the field

Chair: Nando Sigona

John McManus (University of Oxford) The diverse spaces and tactics of football consumption in Europe

Martin Rosenfeld (Université Libre de Bruxelles) The transnational trade chain of second-hand cars

Thomas Hodgson (King's College London) Superdiverse music: Multicultural festivals in England and Pakistan

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1-2.00 Lunch break Atrium

2-3.30

Panel Session 2

7) Rethinking the nation

Chair: Nasar Meer

Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska (University of Warsaw) Superdiversity in post-socialist context. Various patterns of mobility in contemporary Republic of Macedonia

Marcin Gonda (University of Lodz) (Re)constructing the sense of nation belonging. The case of Polish diaspora members

Marco Antonsich (University of Loughborough) When the nation becomes diverse. Meanings of ‘Italy’ and ‘Italian’ in a multicultural context

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8) Migrant integration in an era of superdiversity: perspectives from theory, policy and practice

Chair: Jenny Phillimore

Phoebe Griffith and Alice Sachrajda (IPPR)'Rubbing along' in super-diverse communities

Daniela Carrillo, Marina D'Odorico, Guia Gilardoni (ISMU) Knowledge for Integration Governance in an era of superdiversity.

Leah Bassel (University of Leicester) Superdiversity through an Intersectional Lens

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9) Rethinking majority and minority in an era of superdiversity

Chair: Ricky Joseph

Jens Schneider (University of Osnabrück) Generation Mix: New natives in majority minority-cities in Europe

Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento) New wine in new wineskins? The emergence of superdiversity and the changing prospects of minority recognition

Annabel Tremlett (University of Portsmouth) Making a difference without creating a difference: super-diversity as a new direction in Romani studie s

Kristin Henrard (Erasmus School of Law) The European Court of Human Rights' uneven track record in engaging with super-diversity: in need of an overarching frame of reference?

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10) Sampling and measuring diversity: methodological challenges

Chair: Lisa Goodson

Dirk Geldof, Mieke Schrooten & Sophie Withaeckx (University College on Family Sciences -HUBrussels) Transmigration as a methodological challenge to urban social work in super-divers cities

Tom Frere-Smith (Ipsos MORI) Sampling Recently Arrived Immigrants in the UK: Exploring the effectiveness of Respondent Driven Sampling

Mike Hardy (Coventry University) Measuring everyday social interaction

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11) Diasporic and colonial ties

Chair: Mette Berg

Rilke Mahieu (CeMIS, University of Antwerp) Diversity in the diaspora. How do countries of origin's diaspora policies go along with an increasingly heterogeneous expatriate community? The Moroccan case

Sarah Demart (CEDEM-ISHS) The Belgian-Congolese Relation. Reading the post-colonial malus

Tamsin Barber (Oxford Brookes University ) Chinese, Japanese, or ‘Oriental’?: Vietnamese passing in ‘super-diverse’ London

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12) Diversity, integration and precarious labour

Chair: Kiran Trehan

Hannah Lewis and Louise Waite (University of Leeds) Hyper-precarity: understanding and tackling labour exploitation?

Stephen Wong (King's College London) ''It's tribal innit?' But is it really?: Everyday practices among South Londoners of Somali descent in superdiversity

Kelly Hall (University of Birmingham) Retired Lifestyle Migrants in Spain: Social networks, Integration and Transnationalism

Zana Vathi (Edge Hill University) Tales of a midsummer day: diversification and instances of superdiversity in Saranda and the Albanian-origin returned migrants

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3.30-4.00 Coffee break Atrium

4.00-5.30

Panel session 3

13) IRiS Books and Working Papers – Meet the authors

Chair: Lisa Goodson

Commonplace Diversity. Social Relations in a Super-diverse Context by Susanne Wessendorf (Palgrave, 2014)

Sans Papiers. The social and economic lives of young undocumented migrants by Alice Bloch, Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter (Pluto, 2014)

IRiS Working Paper Series edited by Nando Sigona and Aleksandra Kazlowska

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14) Superdiversity over the lifespan: intersecting health and ethnicity

Chair: Seeromanie Harding (University of Glasgow)

Ursula Read (MRC/CSO SPHSU, University of Glasgow) Superdiversity in family life and implications for wellbeing: Findings from the DASH study

Maria Maynard (Leeds Metropolitan University) DASH-DEAL: An intervention for childhood obesity prevention in a superdiverse setting

Oarabile Molaodi (MRC/CSO SPHSU, University of Glasgow) Care giving, work and family life in ethnic minority women: relationship with self-reported health

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15) Diversity, social networks and transnational ties

Chair: Kiran Trehan

Christiane Timmerman, Helene Marie-Lou De Clerck, Kenneth Hemmerechts and Roos Willems (University of Antwerp) The diversified impact of trans-nationalism on migration aspirations in high emigration areas in Morocco, Turkey, Senegal and Ukraine

Fran Meissner (European University Institute) Rethinking migrant networks through a superdiversity lens

Laura Morosanu (University of Sussex) Researching migrant networks: from ethnicity to superdiversity?

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16) Language, identifications and normativities in digitally mediated discourse

Chair: Samu Kytölä, and Janus Møller

Lian Malai Madsen (University of Copenhagen) Hip Hop, language and educational ideologies: a case from Copenhagen

Samu Kytölä and Elina Westinen (University of Jyväskylä) ‘I be da reel gansta’: metapragmatic evaluations of the performance and authenticity of English in Finnish professional footballers’ tweets

Sirpa Leppänen (University of Jyväskylä ) Dog blogs as ventriloquy: what dogs tell about women’s domestic identity projects

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17) Religious super-diversity in urban contexts

Chair: Martin Stringer

Irene Becci (University of Lausanne), M. Giorda (University of Turin) and M. Burchardt (MPI Ethnic and Religious Diversity) Religious super-diversity in Urban Space; a north-south and east-west European comparison

Andrew Smith (Diocese of Birmingham) Different Voices, Changing Perspectives: The impact of Superdiversity on interfaith and Intra-faith relations in Birmingham

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6.00-7.00

Keynote address

Whither super-diversity? Professor Steven Vertovec (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Cultural Diversity)

Chair: Dr Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham)

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8.00-10.00 Conference Dinner: Welcome address: Cllr James McKay, Social Cohesion, Equalities and Community Safety, Birmingham City Council

Austin Court, Birmingham


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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE DAY 2, 24th June Venue

8.30-onward Registration Atrium

9-10.30

Panel Session 4

18) Superdiversity, health and healthcare

Chair: Dave Newall

Lailah Alidu (University of Birmingham) Health acculturation and migration. A comparison of Ghanaians and Indians living in Birmingham

Hannah Bradby (Uppsala University), Charles Davidson (University of Essex), Gill Green (University of Essex) and Kristine Krause (University of Amsterdam) Therapeutic itineraries and politics of belonging in the context of superdiversity

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19) Language and Superdiversity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Chair: Mike Robinson

Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese (University of Birmingham) Language and social diversity: A heteroglossic approach

Kiran Trehan (University of Birmingham) Making diversity and enterprise everyone´s business: Uncovering how new migrant businesses function in local economies

Caroline Tagg (University of Birmingham) Translanguaging as an addressivity strategy for identity and relational work on Facebook

Janice Lee Thompson (University of Birmingham) Benefits and challenges of translanguaging in the contexts of sport, physical activity and wellbeing

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20) Governing super-diversity

Chair: Lisa Goodson

Antia Perez-Carames (University of A Coruna) Superdiversity in new immigration countries: continuity and change in migratory cycles in Southern Europe

Maurizio Ambrosini (University of Milan) and Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento) Governing super-diversity at local level: a study on eight European cities

Robert Westermann (BQN Berlin) Super-Diversity: Political Implications on the Local Level

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21) Policy discourses and scales of governance

Chair: Susanne Wessendorf

Mike Raco, Jamie Kesten and Claire Colomb (University College London) ‘Governing the Most Cosmopolitan Place on Earth: The (Post) Politics of Diversity in London

Tina Magazzini (Duesto University ) Unity in superdiversity? From multiculturalism to superdiversity : an overview of the approaches to the moving target of the politics of belonging (and becoming) in Europe

Asif Afridi (University of Birmingham) How valuable is identity-based political representation in a super-diverse society?

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22) Legal pluralism and civic stratification

Chair: Nasar Meer

Maria Chiara Locchi (University of Perugia) Super-diversity as legal pluralism: the contribution of Italian legal scholarship

Paola Bonizzoni (University of Milan) Moving across the civic stratification regime: a qualitative exploration of migrants’ status transition in Italy

Sergey Ryazantsev (ISPR- Russian Academy of Sciences) Language integration of migrants in Russia: declarations and realities

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 23) Placing social interactions in superdiverse neighbourhoods

Chair: Rachel Humphris

Susanne Wessendorf (University of Birmingham) Commonplace diversity: social interactions in a superdiverse neighbourhood

Pietro Cingolani and Irene Ponzo (FIERI) Making Group Borders and Relations in Superdiverse European Neighbourhoods

Ole Jensen (University of Oxford) Whose neighbourhood? A comparative analysis of the neighbourhood forum as a platform for community engagement

Aurelie Broeckerhoff (Coventry University) How does the subjective experience of pace of change affect integration in diverse neighbourhoods?

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11-12.00

Keynote address

Books and bronzes: just what kind of citizens do museums and universities create Professor Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College)

Chair: Professor Martin Stringer (University of Birmingham)

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12.20-1.00 Ideas for a network on superdiversity

Open discussion, all welcome


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1-2.30

Panel Session 5

24) Gendering superdiversity

Chair: Maria Villares

Ewa Duda-Mikulin (University of Salford) Reconstructing gendered lives post migration: challenging gender roles?

Francesca Stella (University of Glasgow) Sexuality, migration and intersectionality: insights from a pilot study on LGB migration to Scotland

Alina Rzepnikowska (University of Manchester) Convivial encounters of Polish migrant women in superdiverse neighbourhoods of Manchester

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25) The implications of super-diversity on language and ‘areas of learning’ |Part 1

Chair: Jef van der Aa

Jef van der Aa (Tilburg University) The implications of super-diversity on language and “areas of learning”: An introduction

Sjaak Kroon (Tilburg University) The implications of super-diversity on teacher education in Europe

Max Spotti (Tilburg University) The implications of super-diversity on second language acquisition and non - formal learning

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26) Pathways to care in an era of superdiversity

Chair: Jenny Phillimore

Diana Castaneda Gameros (University of Birmingham) Understanding Nutrition and Physical Activity Behaviours Amongst Older Migrant Women Living in a Superdiverse City

Gill Green (University of Essex), Charles Davison (University of Essex), Hannah Bradby (University of Uppsala), Kristine Krause (University of Amsterdam), Gabriele Alex, Felipe Morente Pathways to care - how Superdiversity shapes the need for navigational assistance

Sylvie Schuster (University Hospital Basel) Superdiversity Swiss Style: New challenges for health care

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27) Children and superdiversity


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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Constadina Charalambous, Panayiota Charalambous (European University

Cyprus) "Children who are we?": Negotiating conflict narratives and superdiversity in a Greek-Cypriot literacy classroom

Linda Bäckman (Åbo Akademi University / University of Birmingham) ‘So that you understand what the world is all about’ – a story of migration re-told

Carol Vincent (Insitute of Education, London), Sarah Neal (University of Surrey) Humera Iqbal (Institute of Education, London) Children’s Friendships in Superdiverse Settings: encounters with difference

28) Rethinking society and public policy

Chair: Lisa Goodson

Simon Pemberton (Keele University) Superdiversity and urban planning: a new paradigm?

Nasar Meer (Strathclyde University) A Shift in the Policy Paradigms? Theorising a move from Multiculturalism to Superdiversity

Allan Cochrane (Open University) Rethinking public policy for a diverse society

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29) Everyday interactions and welfare state configurations in the age of superdiversity

Chair: Aleksandra Kazlowska

Magdalena Nowicka (Humboldt Universitat) The meanings of super-diversity: transformations of habitus in urban super-diverse settings

Bea Van Robaeys (University College Karel De Grote) Problem-setting of social workers in complex and super-diverse contexts. An ethnographic exploration.

Mette Louise Berg, Ben Gidley, Rachel Humphris, Hiranthi Jayaweera, Caroline Oliver, Simon Rowe (University of Oxford) Servicing superdiversity: Researching the relationship between everyday diversity and welfare state reconfiguration

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3-4.30

Panel Session 6

30) The implications of super-diversity on language and ‘areas of learning’ |Part 2

Chair: Jef van der Aa

Discussant: Karel Arnaut

Fie Velghe (Tilburg University) Learning super-diverse repertoires for super-diverse reasons: Mobile phone use and mobile Internet in a South African township

Ico Maly and Piia Varis (Tilburg University) Identity in superdiversity: Micro-populations in the superdiverse city

Daniele Viktor Leggio (University of Manchester) Community and language codification in a virtual space

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31) Social anchoring and superdiversity

Chair: Maria Villares

Aleksandra Kazlowska (University of Birmingham) Social Anchoring in a Super-Diverse Society

Anna Gawlewicz (University of Sheffield) Supermobility and superdiversity: The effects of migrant encounters with difference and circulation of values and attitudes towards otherness

Linda Morrice (University of Sussex) A Phenomenology of Refugees’ Experience of British Cultural Values

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32) Sociolinguistic regimes in different multi-ethnic contexts

Chair: Caroline Tagg

Rachelle Vessey (Newcastle University) Language ideologies and language

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE rights in superdiverse social media: The case of PASTAGATE

David H. Gehne (RUB/ZEFIR) Signs of the Metropolises: Visual multilingualism and the impact of superdiversity in the Ruhr Area

Kelvin Lui (Kings College London ) The semiotised spaces: Uncovering the ethnic ideologies and sociolinguistic regimes in a multiethnic Hong Kong youth club

Baukje Prins (The Hague University of Applied Sciences) Gamer meets streetboy. How superdiversity challenges dominant paradigms of intercultural communication

33) Sacred spaces and social networks in superdiverse communities

Chair: Farina Kokab

Sylvie Van Dam (University of Antwerp) Superdiversity reflected in migrant

organisations: a social map of the migrant civil society

Bridin Carroll and Arshad Isakjee (University of Birmingham) Halal Consumption In Birmingham: Religion, Identity and Politics

Demelza Jones (Aston University) Being Tamil, being Hindu: Making sacred space in a super-diverse Hindu diaspora

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34) Urban hierarchies, networks and actors

Chair: Ben Gidley

Suzanne Hall (LSE) Super-diverse Capital: hierarchies and networks of migrant cities

Leah Bassel, Marc Scully, John Williams (University of Leicester) Understanding a Multicultural City: The Youth Manifesto for Leicester

Rachel Humphris (University of Oxford) Discretion in diversity dilemmas: Street-level bureaucrats and new migrant families in a diverse UK urban area

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5.00-6.30

Plenary session

Rethinking policy and practice in/for an era of superdiversity: Roundtable discussion

Rob Berkeley (former-director, Runnymede Trust)

Sherif Elsayed-Ali (Amnesty International)

Don Flynn (Migrants’ Rights Network)

Michael Privot (European Network Against Racism)

Chair: Emma Stone (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

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7.00-8.30 Wine & Canapé Reception Barber Institute


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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE DAY 3, 25th June Venue

9-10.30

Plenary Session

Superdiversity, social change and ideas of integration

Chair: Professor Adrian Blackledge (University of Birmingham)

Professor Jan Blommaert (University of Tilburg) Chronicles of complexity: public signs as early warning systems for social change

Professor Jenny Phillimore (University of Birmingham) Integration in an era of Superdiversity

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11-12.30

Panel Session 7

35) Practitioner Researcher Programme: Working together to understand migration and superdiversity in Birmingham – Poster session

Chair: Lisa Goodson

Amy Cui and Kate Gordon (Chinese Community Centre)

Andrene Miller (Independent)

Andy Jolly (The Children's Society)

Micho Moyo (Birmingham City Council)

Santok Odedra and Rebwar Sulayman (Refugee Action)

Sarah Taal (Hope Projects)

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36) Home making in diversity

Chair: Kelly Hall

Claire Bynner (University of Glasgow) Social Interaction and Community Activity in the Superdiverse Neighbourhood

Marnie Shaffer and Emma Stewart (University of Strathclyde) Finding a Home in the UK: Refugee Internal Migration and Experiences of Place in UK Cities

Kristen Biehl (University of Oxford) Home making in diversity: housing experiences and encounters with difference in a migration hub of Istanbul

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37) Superdiversity in the classroom


Roussel De Carvalho (Institute of Education, London) Superdiversity and Science Initial Teacher Education: coping with multi-religious beliefs in the science classroom

Anna Arnone (School of Oriental and African Studies) Superdiversity among children in London seen through the lens of environmental education

Mark Payne (University of Sheffield) The integration of Roma Slovak pupils into secondary schooling in Sheffield: A case of school superdiversity?

Hans Siebers (Tilburg University) Superdiversity subverted: Ethnic boundary constructions in Dutch classrooms

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38) Networks and arrival infrastructures in global cities

Chair: Rachel Humphris

Teresa Piacentini (University of Glasgow) : Exploring super-diversity from within: a study of migrant associational life

Bruno Meeus (KU Leuven) Arrival infrastructures in Brussels: Romanians between individual and collective social mobility

Paul Chu (University of Cambridge) Migration and Multiculturalism in Singapore

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39) Researching superdiversity: challenges, innovations and enterprise

Chair: Paramjit Gill

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Trevor Jones, Monder Ram, Yaojun Li*, Paul Edwards and Maria Villares

(University of Birmingham, *University of Manchester) Multicultural diversity and new migrant enterprise

Xiaolin Yang (University of Birmingham) How does diversity impact social policy research in China?

Farina Kokab (University of Birmingham) The methodological challenges associated with recruitment of members from the Pakistani community

12.30-1.00

Plenary Session

Wrap-up: The future(s) of diversity research

Professor Adrian Blackledge

Professor Jenny Phillimore

Dr Nando Sigona

Professor Kiran Trehan

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