Diversity and Differential Inclusion in Arrival Cities
The growing “diversity-turn” in the social scientific study of migrant-led urban change is an exciting opportunity for geographers. Much has been said about encounters with difference and diversity in public spaces (Amin, 2012; Lofland, 1998; Koch and Latham, 2011; Nayak, 2017; Ye, 2016). There remains, however, a silence on the very nature of incorporation within these spatial negotiations and transformations (Ye, 2018). Urban areas that are receiving migrants – arrival cities – are experiencing wide-ranging temporal and spatial dimensions of migrant-driven diversification (Vertovec, 2007). Transnational migrants from an ever-increasing range of backgrounds are moving in to different sized cities as low-waged labour migrants, high-status “expatriates”, student migrants and marriage migrants. Migrant-led (super)diversification in these cities is transforming how difference is generated, experienced, and managed at both the level of policy and the everyday. These closely related processes of migration and diversification prompt not only scrutiny of how contemporary cities incorporate increasingly diverse groups of newcomers. But more importantly, the expansion of cities is increasingly premised upon the expansion of migrant management. I argue that rather than expulsion, people are differently included. Various modes of migrant management include and exclude in different ways, generating different migrant subjectivities. Indeed, the key theoretical point of departure for this panel is that inclusion and exclusion are both sides of the same coin. It might be argued that it is these various modes of management and subjectivities that constitute and explain diversification processes. It could also be argued that it is these modes of difference management that produce the migrant, included through their different politicized forms.
Management matters manifest in the banal. What then are the implications of these differentiated forms of diversity governance on everyday life? How do people coexist with difference?
Submissions might respond to the following questions, from a range of empirical sites:
How do strategies of state actors and institutions sort, regulate, constitute, and set the terms of diversity?
How do these strategies constitute the politics of everyday coexistence in shared spaces?
What do these modes of migrant and diversity management mean for the figure of the migrant?
What do migrant groups respond to these wider state and/or municipal policies?
What form (class, gender, sexuality, race?) does difference take in the diversifying city?
Please submit an abstract (max. 200 words) and envisioned format for presentation along with the names, affiliations and contact details of the authors to Junjia Ye at [log in to unmask] by February 18th 2019. Please also indicate which author will present at the conference and make note of any specific AV or access requirements.
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