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ABSTRACTRecent migration has made traditional destination cities so diverse that many conventional social science concepts and methods have become inadequate to the task of understanding complex diversity, or what is now often termed superdiversity. Here, we address the need for new methods of "seeing" urban superdiversity in two ways. First, we highlight the need to understand urban contexts by examining new combinations and intersections of multiple social variables. Second, we demonstrate a suite of new interactive tools. We attempt to enable users to picture, perceive and apprehend complex analyses of multidimensional data on urban diversity in new, more intuitive ways. This visualization draws on multivariate geo-spatial data on different kinds of diversity, across three major destination cities: Sydney, Vancouver, and Auckland. We believe this approach contributes to the theoretical and methodological refinements needed to study contemporary superdiversity in urban settings, and to contribute to better public understanding and policies regarding the processes of urban diversification.

This article reviews research findings and policy documents on circular migration. The author argues that the phenomenon of circular migration is not new, but policy interest is somewhat recent While he suggests that circular migration policies may make some positive contributions to economic development, labour shortages, public opinion and illegal migration, he notes that such policies are not a "magic bullet" [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As post-reunification Berlin rebuilds as the capital of Germany, as one powerbase in a federal Europe, as a gateway to Eastern Europe and as, in many respects, a global city, a number of important public initiatives have emerged by way of what can be called - rightly or wrongly - multi-culturalism. Many such initiatives have gained particular urgency following the events in Solingen and Molln, seeking not only to oppose racism, but to encourage greater general acceptance of new flows of people and cultural phenomena.Within a total population of 3.5 million persons in Berlin, so-called foreigners' (Auslander) account for 12 per cent or over 406,600. This article concerns initiatives of three major bodies concerned with the representation of foreigners' or ethnic minorities in the public sphere in Berlin. Initiatives by the Commissioner for Foreigners' Affairs (Auslanderbeauftragte), the Workshop of Cultures (Werkstatt der Kulturen), and the new public broadcasting station 'SFB4 Radio Multikulti' are examined and discussed in light of how they seek to alter the representation of ethnic minorities in public space, to dispose of a range of common terms concerning such minorities - including Auslander (foreigners'), Gastarbeiter ('guest-workers'), Zuwanderer ('migrants'), hierlebende Nichtdeutsche ('here-living-non-Germans'), to deconstruct the idea of 'German-ness' itself, and to develop a widespread sense of Weltoffenheit ('liberal mindedness/cosmopolitanism' or, literally translated, 'world-openness').

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Temples are often usefully described as being of intrinsic social and cultural, as well as religious, value to Hindus in Britain. However, generalisations about the role of Hindu temples as 'community centres' may obscure fundamental differences between a variety of Hindu groups who are characterised by contrasting regional backgrounds, religious orientations, and histories of migration, settlement, and community development. Here, three temples in London (predominantly Gujarati in Balham, Punjabi in Southall, and Indo-Caribbean in Brixton) are compared in terms of patterns of use and the ways these reflect the nature of the local Hindu population. It is demonstrated that the 'community' use of Hindu temples in London, including the degree to which this use is 'congregational', is marked by at least three divergent trends.

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Over the last 30 years, as the CrossMigration project demonstrates, Migration Studies has been positively institutionalized in a number of ways. Further, a number of new theoretical interventions have significantly altered the ways we understand migration. What unfortunately has not changed, I believe, is the low level of impact that academic studies of migration has had on public understanding. For these reasons, we can call for a limited “two cheers for Migration studies”, but not the conventional three cheers.