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From diversity to super-diversity : the impact of local neoliberal-agenda development on migration-related diversity in the London borough of Lewisham and the UK
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Yonekawa, Naoki (2023) From diversity to super-diversity : the impact of local neoliberal-agenda development on migration-related diversity in the London borough of Lewisham and the UK. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This study describes how migration-related diversity developed in the UK between 1990 and 2023, a period known as the era of ‘super-diversity’. As a representative example, it focuses on local policies with a neo-liberal agenda implemented by the London Borough of Lewisham. The term ‘super-diversity’ refers to a level of population diversity that has expanded significantly and thus cannot be analysed within the existing framework; it covers communities of race, ethnic-minority groups, and immigrants. In the UK context, many studies have discussed the emergence of small, scattered, legally stratified, transnationally connected, and differentiated socio-economic communities with diverse variables. These stand in contrast to an older framework of large, well-organised racial and ethnic-minority groups from new Commonwealth countries. The present study investigates underexplored local processes that include and exclude communities with a migrant background.
Local diversity policies address racial discrimination, integration, and selective immigration. In the case of integration, the 1990s served as an inflection point when integration policies were first prioritised over ethnic-group-based policies. Selective-immigration policies include restricted entry and access to services such as education. Entry restrictions include the meritocratic selection of non-EU and EU immigrants and asylum seekers and refugees. Restrictions on access to services apply to educational services and refugee-resettlement programmes.
This study outlines the development of selection and restriction policies within a neoliberal context, which targeted diversifying communities after 1990. The shift from a locally led race- and ethnic-group-based system to a more state-led legal-status and individual-based system was the common backdrop for policies involving race, integration, and immigrant-selection. Thus, the present study investigates the new super-diversity context from the perspective of Lewisham local policies.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Multiculturalism -- Great Britain, Multiculturalism -- England -- London, Immigrants -- England -- London, Immigrants -- Government policy -- Great Britain, Neoliberalism -- Great Britain, Marginality, Social -- Great Britain | ||||
Official Date: | January 2023 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Sociology | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Solomos, John ; Jones, Hannah, 1980- | ||||
Sponsors: | Dōshisha Daigaku ; Japan Student Service Organisation | ||||
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Extent: | iii unnumbered pages, 308 pages | ||||
Language: | eng |
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