Steven Vertovec

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Steven Vertovec (born July 2, 1957 in Chicago ) is an American sociologist , ethnologist and religious scholar . He is the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Multi-Religious and Multi-Ethnic Societies . In 2007 he coined the social science term superdiversity .

Life

Vertovec received his bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1979 and his master's degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1982 . He then studied social anthropology at the University of Oxford , where he received his doctorate in 1988 . He was then Professor of Transnational Anthropology at Oxford and from 2002 to 2007 Director of the Center on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the Economic and Social Research Council of the British Government. Since November 2007 he has been the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Multi-Religious and Multi-Ethnic Societies in Göttingen and honorary professor of sociology and ethnology at the University of Göttingen . From 2008 to 2011 he was a member of the Expert Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration . Vertovec has been an honorary doctorate from the University of Liège since 2018 .

Coined by him in a 2007 Journal article concept Super diversity used Vertovec to underline a level of complexity and a complexity type of migration, which goes beyond all that many of the recipient countries have ever experienced before.

Fonts (selection)

  • Talking around super-diversity . In: Ethnic and Racial Studies , Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2019, pp. 125-139 ( online ).
  • Edited together with Susanne Wessendorf: The Multiculturalism Backlash: European Discourses, Policies and Practices . Routledge, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-415-55649-1 .
  • Transnationalism . Routledge, London / New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-415-43298-6 .
  • Super-diversity and its implications . In: Ethnic and Racial Studies , Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2007, pp. 1024-1054 ( online ).
  • Joint editor with Robin Cohen: Conceiving cosmopolitanism. Theory, context and practice. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-199-25227-0 .
  • The Hindu diaspora. Comparative patterns . Routledge, London / New York 2000, ISBN 0-415-23892-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on: Max Planck Institute: Steven Vertovec, Vita .
  2. ↑ COMPAS: Steve Vertovec Former Staff .
  3. ↑ Eight German foundations set up the Expert Council for Integration and Migration. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Three new members appointed to the Expert Council. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  5. ^ Max Planck Institute for Research into Multi-Religious and Multi-Ethnic Societies: Steven Vertovec .
  6. ↑ Steven Vertovec: Superdiversity , Heinrich Böll Foundation , “Heimatkunde”, Migration Policy Portal, November 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Vertovec, Steven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago