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978-3-319-96041-8

Coming to Terms with Superdiversity

Publication year: 2019

ISBN: 978-3-319-96041-8

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This book discusses Rotterdam as clear example of a superdiverse city that is only reluctantly coming to terms with this new reality. Rotterdam, as is true for many post-industrial cities, has seen a considerable backlash against migration and diversity: the populist party Leefbaar Rotterdam of the late Pim Fortuyn is already for many years the largest party in the city. At the same time Rotterdam has become a majority minority city where the people of Dutch descent have become a numerical minority themselves. The book explores how Rotterdam is coming to terms with superdiversity, by an analysis of its migration history of the city, the composition of the migrant population and the Dutch working class population, local politics and by a comparison with Amsterdam and other cities. As such it contributes to a better understanding not just of how and why super-diverse cities emerge but also how and why the reaction to a super-diverse reality can be so different.


Subject: Social Sciences, Urban History, Population mobility, Population diversity, Migration and integration, Inequality, Global cities perspective, First and second generation immigrants, Superdiversity, Rotterdam, Migration history, Urban governance, urban politics