ABSTRACT

A diversification of diversity and altered approaches to governing migration and its implications have changed how young people experience and negotiate living in post-migration contexts. Superdiversity has over the past ten years developed into a core concept for framing and developing research approaches that respond to changed patterns of migration-driven diversity. This chapter serves as an introduction to the concept of superdiversity and its different uses. The author shows that thinking with and through superdiversity necessitates paying closer attention to the multiple temporal and spatial dynamics of diversity with important implications for how we approach research subjects and contexts. She notes that youth research remains underdeveloped in the superdiversity literature and argues that paying more attention to adolescents and young people in this field is pertinent. Doing so will expand insights about a generation that is growing up with superdiverse contexts as a habitual frame of reference.