Collective life: parents, playground encounters and the multicultural city

Wilson, Helen F.

doi:10.1080/14649365.2013.800220

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“…Indeed, several researchers have emphasised the school as a site of negotiation of difference (Wilson, 2013;Neal and Vincent, 2013). However, encounters in school are not immune from existing inequalities of power and resources, and the patterns of sociality these create.…”

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Encounters with diversity: Children’s friendships and parental responses

Vincent¹,

Neal

Iqbal³

2016

Urban Studies

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This paper reports on a project exploring the friendships of children and adults in 'super-diverse' (Vertovec, 2007) localities in London, England, examining whether and how friendships are made and maintained across ethnic and social class differences. The aim is to identify what friendships reveal about the nature and extent of ethnic and social divisions in contemporary multicultural society. Drawing on interviews with children and their parents, this paper analyses affective parental responses to their children's friendships, identifying instances where parents seek to manage these friendships. We identify the importance of the 'ease of similarity' for many parents concerning their children's friendships, and the relative lack of concrete practices amongst parents to support their children's friendships across difference. However, we also note parental support for living in super-diverse localities and children attending schools therein.

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Encounters with diversity: Children’s friendships and parental responses

Vincent¹,

Neal

Iqbal³

2016

Urban Studies

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“…Amin, 2002;Cook et al, 2011b;Neal et al, 2013;Valentine, 2008;Wilson, 2013). Secondly, by looking at various circumstances in which migrant encounters take place, it illustrates that home and workplace, relatively underresearched until recently (e.g.…”

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“…However, some significant spaces of contact with difference such as family and home, 6 workplace or leisure spaces -although addressed in some publications (e.g. Cook et al, 2011b;Harris and Valentine, forthcoming;Schuermans, 2013;Valentine et al, 2014;Wilson, 2013) -remain underexplored and require more scholarly attention, in particular with regard to migrants.…”

Section: Geographies Of Encounter and The 'Capacity To Live With Diffmentioning

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Beyond openness and prejudice: The consequences of migrant encounters with difference

Gawlewicz

2015

Environ Plan A

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This article investigates the consequences of migrant encounters with difference in terms of ethnicity, religion, class, social status, sexuality and gender. While the notion of encounter has attracted much academic attention, in particular with regard to multiculture, social diversity and the challenge of living with difference, many of these debates tend to, oddly enough, overlook migrant populations. Furthermore, although they acknowledge that significant numbers of migrants to diverse societies such as the UK originate from much less diverse communities, they rarely reflect on the intricacies of production of difference in these respective places. Recognising these limitations, this article outlines the consequences of encounters with difference in the context of migration from Poland (a relatively homogeneous postcommunist society) to the UK (a 'superdiverse' post-colonial society). The article draws upon extensive empirical material collected among Polish post-2004 migrants to the Northern English city of Leeds. It establishes that migrant encounters result in development, revision or change of values and attitudes towards difference. This may involve a range of personal stances including favourable and prejudiced attitudes as well as, most likely, 'complicated' and 'in-between' responses.

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“…Likewise, there is the need for considerable investment in cultivating positive and fruitful contact (Thomas, 2007;Wilson, 2013).…”

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Multiculturalism, interculturalism, ‘multiculture’ and super-diversity: Of zombies, shadows and other ways of being

Sealy

2018

Ethnicities

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Multiculturalism has increasingly become challenged and outcast, whether directly or summarily, as theoretically useful or empirically valid. This has come prominently from three corners: interculturalism, ‘everyday’ multiculturalism or ‘multiculture’ and super-diversity, in all of which the zombieness of multiculturalism is seen to be mutually reassured. Nevertheless, there are significant short comings that have not been thoroughly addressed and considered. In this article, I offer a thoroughgoing engagement with and critique of these bodies of work, identifying their points of convergence and divergence, the underlying principles in their relation to multiculturalism and suggesting how they fall short, often of their own goals, in multiple and significant ways. I argue that the cosmopolitan individualism they wish to celebrate ignores the fact of power relations, inequality, conflict and the necessity of politics. The micro-level ‘solutions’ offered, I suggest, do not provide a substitute for a macro-level multiculturalism. Moreover, the conceptualisations of identity also do not stand up to scrutiny. This, I interrogate with a particular reference to religious identity to indicate the shortcomings in these literatures. I propose instead that not only is multiculturalism not the zombie it is claimed but also that it continues to offer better critical resources than its challengers.

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Collective life: parents, playground encounters and the multicultural city

Cited by 65 publications

References 70 publications

Encounters with diversity: Children’s friendships and parental responses

Encounters with diversity: Children’s friendships and parental responses

Beyond openness and prejudice: The consequences of migrant encounters with difference

Multiculturalism, interculturalism, ‘multiculture’ and super-diversity: Of zombies, shadows and other ways of being

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