Evidencing superdiversity in the census and beyond

Stringer, Martin D.

doi:10.1080/0048721x.2014.903649

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“…In a previous paper, therefore, I asked whether it was possible to find some element of the census data that could allow us to identify particular neighbourhoods as religiously superdiverse, and so enabling a comparative analysis, testing my hypothesis from Handsworth in other equally superdiverse neighbourhoods (Stringer, 2014). My conclusion was that this was only partially possible because of the lack of detail within the census material, especially in the area of religion, but that a combination of religious, ethnic and national origin data could perhaps help to identify areas that were potentially superdiverse.…”

Section: Superdiversity In Handsworthmentioning

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“…In terms of both the question on ethnicity and particularly that on religion, the number of choices available does not fully reflect the level of diversity that might be apparent on the ground. The issues relating to the religion question have been rehearsed many times, but by offering the choice of the "big six" and then a self designated "other" category, there are many elements of contemporary religious diversity that are missed (Stringer, 2014). We cannot divide the main religious categories, to measure Catholics as opposed to Baptists for example, and the question did not allow individuals to choose more than one option, so failing to recognise those who consider themselves to be both Christian and Buddhist or Pagan and Hindu, or whatever.…”

Section: Testing the Diversity Of Diversitiesmentioning

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“…This local survey, however, cannot tell us very much about the religious diversity of the people concerned. If we take one of the lower sub-units of the UK census, the super output areamiddle layer, and choose that which, by a process defined in my previous paper (Stringer 2014), can be argued to have the highest level of religious diversity, then we find that this unit (Birmingham 036) is an area within Handsworth. In order to test some of my proposals and assumptions within this paper, therefore, I will use the figures from this particular super output area.…”

Section: Testing the Diversity Of Diversitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Religion, Ethnicity and National Origins: Exploring the Independence of Variables in a Superdiverse Neighbourhood

Stringer¹

2014

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Many studies of diverse urban neighbourhoods have identified that the people who live in these neighbourhoods tend to live separate lives based on shared characteristics such as ethnicity, national origin or religion. In his study of Rogers Park in Chicago, Lowell Livezey refers to these as "ethnoracial enclaves". Steven Vertovec"s concept of superdiversity, however, appears to question this assuming a certain level of independence between different kinds of diversity (ethnicity, language, national origin, religion, legal status, etc.). In my study of Handsworth in Birmingham, UK, I argued that this independence of the variables of diversity allowed people to choose the identity that most suited their needs at the time and that, in the conversations I listened to, they chose identities that brought people together rather than those that set them apart. This paper explores the idea of the independence of the various variables of diversity as assumed in the use of the term "superdiversity" and uses census data from the 2011 census of England and Wales to test this assumption in relation to the city of Birmingham and the specific neighbourhood of Handsworth. * * * Introduction: journeys down two roads In his large-scale ethnographic study of congregations and communities in Chicago, Lowell Livezey (2000) identified the northern neighbourhood of Rogers Park as probably the most diverse, both ethnically and religiously, within the whole of Chicago. In his paper Livezey describes a journey down Devon Street, the central shopping street of Rogers Park, running from the coast of Lake Michigan and heading inland. What this journey illustrates is a series of different districts along the road, each of which is identified with a specific ethnic and religious group. So Livezey talks about moving from a Jewish to an Indian, to an "Indo-Pakistani" to a Mexican area of the street (2000, pp. 134-5), each of which is reflected in a series of distinctive religious buildings and community centres. This leads Livezey to coin the phrase

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2014

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“…He argues that the value of census data lies in the possibility of triangulating them with other methods and particularly highlights the need to combine qualitative and quantitative methods. Only then, his work suggests, can we identify and distinguish between different modes of diversity and the lived experience of these environments (Stringer 2014).…”

Section: Religious Identification and Complex Societiesmentioning

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“…Martin Stringer (2014) also engages with issues of diversity, taking a more cautious view of what census data can tell us. His concern is with qualitative differences between diversity and superdiversity (the extent to which some places have an intense concentration of people from different migrant backgrounds) and with the extent to which census data can distinguish between pluralist and divided neighbourhoods -neighbourhoods that are equally but very differently heterogeneous.…”

Section: Religious Identification and Complex Societiesmentioning

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Making sense of surveys and censuses: Issues in religious self-identification

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2014

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Censuses and surveys shape decisions, discourse and debates about people and their lived environments. The outcomes, in the case of a census, inform governments about resource distribution but also shape people's selfunderstanding about who they are and where they may be going. How people self-identify on censuses and surveys produces certain types of knowledge. This introduction emphasises the impact of those instruments on knowledge production and how numbers can be employed, often anecdotally, to further interests and claims. The way academics use and interpret such instruments has ethical and normative dimensions: numbers are not neutral but shape and are shaped by perceptions and identities. This introduction to a thematic issue of Religion introduces the contributing authors' diverse -historical, qualitative and quantitative -approaches that work together to produce their own kind of multi-disciplinary, academically located knowledge.

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Evidencing superdiversity in the census and beyond

Cited by 8 publications

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Religion, Ethnicity and National Origins: Exploring the Independence of Variables in a Superdiverse Neighbourhood

Religion, Ethnicity and National Origins: Exploring the Independence of Variables in a Superdiverse Neighbourhood

Making sense of surveys and censuses: Issues in religious self-identification

Introduction to Early Language Learning Policy in the Twenty-First Century

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