ABSTRACT
This final, concluding chapter reviews several of the key points made throughout the book. Parallel processes of complexification are occurring worldwide, although of course several significant aspects of context matter considerably by way of fashioning their distinctive shapes, courses, and outcomes. These are bound to continue, if not intensify, in light of climate change, having profound impacts on the nature of migration and inequality. In order to mitigate negative perceptions and attitudes towards superdiversity and social complexity and to promote more positive social relations, a new public understanding of diversity and diversification is called for. A key feature of such a move, it is suggested, is to encourage the recognition of social categories as multiple, unfixed, and porous as opposed to views of social categories based on groupism, singular affiliation, culturalism, racialization, and linguistic boundedness. Such an approach can be made in public spheres of policy, political representation, and information campaigns. In keeping with Social Identity Complexity theory, the idea is not to do away with the notion of social groups, but to underpin awareness of category plus – that is, that individuals are always part of more than one category, and any category involves people with more than one identity.
