Emergent Multi-Cultural Identities and Practices of Immigrants: Toward the Recognition of Yet Another Integration Trajectory

Steven Vertovec will relate the conditions of super-diversity of present-day urban spaces which affect migrants’ positioning in the host society, their social milieus that cross-cut ethnicities, and cross-cultural social relations.

Ewa Morawska will reconsider the premises  informing our concepts/ theories of  immigrant integration challenged by  a new phenomenon of  the continuously re-directed open-ended migration of travellers seeking self-development and exciting adventure.

Thomas Faist will reflect on the role of class, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation in structuring inequalities in present-day multicultural societies characterized by cross-cutting identities and practices of  their members, and  its implications for integration/assimilation theories.

Peter Kivisto will attempt to interconnect three concepts which have informed theories of immigrant integration/assimilation: that of pluralism which informed the earliest (American) conceptualizations, the notion of ethnic options/optional ethnicity which emerged in the second half of the past century, and the recent idea of cosmopolitan canopy.