ABSTRACT
Superdiversity entails not just a condition, but an ongoing set of interconnected processes. Societies around the world are experiencing unprecedented processes of diversification surrounding several social categories, not least through changing migration patterns. These entail a compounding of migration causes or drivers, a proliferation of countries of origin, and a growing perplexity of legal statuses. Following these trends, the nature of diasporas and transnational activities among migrants has become more complex, too. And beyond migration dynamics, but often still linked to them, many societies are subject to demographic and geographically distinct processes of diversification. Urban configurations are being reshaped, diversity across age cohorts are strikingly diverging, categories are being rethought by the rapid growth of people of “mixed backgrounds,” and an unprecedented mixture of languages are prompting new linguistic practices. These contemporary processes of diversification comprise significant social transformations.
