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Hope you find this article useful - it uses maternity services as a vehicle for exploring the experiences of new migrants and the barriers they encounter when seeking to engage with welfare services in superdiverse neighbourhoods. The article highlights widespread concerns in terms of equality of access and outcomes which are likely to extend beyond maternity services to other forms of welfare and are particularly worrying in relation to asylum seekers, failed asylum seekers and refugees Phillimore, J. (2014) Delivering maternity services in an era of superdiversity: the challenges of novelty and newness Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2015.980288 The population complexity associated with superdiversity brings a wide range of challenges for social welfare providers. Commentators have outlined concerns about the ability of service providers to meet the welfare needs of ever diversifying populations and point to potential problems in identifying the nature of need in rapidly changing superdiverse neighbourhoods as conventional approaches to consultation based around ethnicity become practically impossible. Using data collected in the West Midlands, which explored maternity service needs from the perspectives of new migrants and maternity professionals, some key barriers to effective welfare delivery in superdiverse areas are explored. The paper outlines the emergence of two challenges important in shaping new migrant access to maternity care in an era of superdiversity - novelty and newness - and proposes further research to examine the extent to which these challenges are faced in other social welfare services. Dr Jenny Phillimore Dr Jenny Phillimore Professor of Migration and Superdiversity Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/superdiversity-institute/index.aspx School of Social Policy University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT 0044 121 414 7822 [log in to unmask] Latest publications: Phillimore, J. (2014) Delivering maternity services in an era of superdiversity: the challenges of novelty and newness Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2015.980288 Karnilowicz, W., Ali, L. & Phillimore, J. (2014) Community research within a social constructionist epistemology: implications for "scientific rigour". Community Development DOI 10.1080/15571530.2014.936479 Soteri-Proctor, A., Phillimore, J. & McCabe, A. (2014) Grassroots civil society at crossroads: staying on the path to independence or turning onto the UK Government's route to localism? Development in Practice 23 (8) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09614524.2013.840267#.UuuTDbS_nDh Cheung, S.Y. and Phillimore, J. (2014) 'Refugees, Social Capital and Labour Market Integration in the UK', Sociology, 48 (3) 518-536 http://soc.sagepub.com/content/48/3/518 Phillimore, J. (2013) Housing, Home and Neighbourhood Renewal in the Era of Superdiversity: Some Lessons from the West Midlands Housing Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02673037.2013.758242 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by Forced Migration Online, Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Posting guidelines: http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/discussion/forced-migration-discussion-list-posting-guidelines Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/refugeestudies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/refugeestudiescentre