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Palgrave MacMillan Diversities Old and New Migration and Socio-Spatial Patterns in New York Singapore and Johannesburg 2015 Edition by S. Vertovec
Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented. Table of contents :- 1. Introduction: Migration, Cities, Diversities 'Old' and 'New'; Steven Vertovec PART I: EXAMINING DIVERSITIES OLD AND NEW 2. Astoria, New York City; Sofya Aptekar and Anna Cieslik 3. Jurong West, Singapore; Laavanya Kathiravelu and Junjia Ye 4. Hillbrow, Johannesburg; Rajohane Matshedisho and Alex Wafer PART II: DIVERSITIES AND SPACES: COMING TOGETHER AND REMAINING APART 5. Religion in Public Spaces of Astoria; Anna Cieslik 6. Boundaries and Surveillance in Astoria; Sofya Aptekar 7. Encounter, Transport and Transitory Spaces in Jurong West; Laavanya Kathiravelu 8. Flea Markets and Familiar Strangers in Jurong West; Junjia Ye 9. Homelessness in Berea Park, Hillbrow; Rajohane Matshedisho 10. Precarity and Intimacy in Super-Diverse Hillbrow; Alex Wafer PART III: SOCIAL-SPATIAL PATTERNS OF ENCOUNTERING DIVERSITY 11. Route-ines 12. Rooms without Walls 13. Corridors of Dissociation 14. Conclusion; Steven Vertovec