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Free keywords:
Diversity; postcolonial migration; precarity; spatial politics; encounter; Asia
Abstract:
Superdiversity is best approached as an interpretive lens and a generativelexicon that encourages an appreciation of the complex, multidimensionaldiversity characteristic of the human condition in the twenty-first century. Itake the term out of its European and North American home ground and usethe concept to zoom in on key questions pertaining to migration-leddiversity in the Asian context. In doing so, I explore three themes to highlightsuperdiversity’s entanglements: the“postcoloniality of migration-and-diversity”to underscore the inextricable relations of present-daydiversification with colonial categories and cartographies; the“production ofprecarity in migration-and-diversity”to recover superdiversity’s asymmetricalpower structure; and the“spatial politics of migrant encounter”toforeground the embodied experience of living in superdiverse settingscreated by cross-streams of“old”and“new”migrations.
