ABSTRACT
Super-diversity' is increasingly used where multiculturalism would have been used previously, but, as we discuss below, in sometimes contradictory ways. Minimally, the diversity turn, and in particular the emergence of super-diversity in academic and policy discourse, recognises that previous ethnicity-based clustering, which had to some extent superseded race-based clustering, no longer provides an adequate analytical lens for understanding the complexity and dynamism of urban multiculture. As a policy or a set of policies aimed at managing integration and social cohesion, diversity is increasingly occupying the semantic terrain previously occupied by ethnicity' and ethnic community'. As such, diversity' is used to describe and govern populations, in occasionally contradictory ways. While multi-sited ethnography is now well established, enabling ethnographers to study people in motion across locations, there have been relatively few attempts to research multiple migrant groups living together in diverse neighbourhoods.
