Fran Meissner
Biographic Data
| ID | 97997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fran Meissner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fran |
| FAMILY NAME | Meissner |
| SIGNATURE | MEISSNER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Critical Geodata Studies and Geodata Ethics, University of Twente |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8237-9875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 297 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Safety in the Techno-Mediated City: Insights from Bengaluru's AI-Powered CCTV Network
Despite ample criticisms, cities are increasingly using closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, justified by citing urban safety. How safety is evoked within such technology-laden projects is little studied. To address this gap, we empirically investigated the Bengaluru Safe City Project, an AI-powered surveillance system. We qualitatively analyzed key documents describing the surveillance system’s …
Techno-material entanglements and the social organisation of difference
Migration information infrastructures: Power, Control and Responsibility at a New Frontier of Migration Research
The nature and production of migration statistics are in flux. State bureaucracies are no longer the primary source of migration data. Instead, there are a myriad unofficial data sources and processing collaborations which produce migration and mobility data as a by-product of both commercial and governmental processes. This has implications both for international processes of migration assessment and control, and for states’ domestic policies wi…
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About the Editors
The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity
Old immigration hubs and new ones worldwide have experienced rapid and increasing movements of people from more varied national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. These movements have emerged along with a diversification of migration channels and legal statuses. In concurrent but differing ways, these migration-driven trends profoundly transform societies in complex ways spanning social, demographic, cultural, economic, and political…
Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity
Afterword: Superdiversity Futures
This afterword offers insights into where superdiversity is heading, how it speaks to broader debates in the social sciences, and some of the omissions from the book. The editorial team considers, on the one hand, how events such as the global Covid-19 pandemic and the unfolding climate and environmental crisis are impacting the dynamics of international and internal migration as well as their relevance for studying superdiversity. On the other h…
Deromanticising integration: On the importance of convivial disintegration
In light of current experiences with migration-driven diversification, is it still conducive to think about the effects of international migration by advocating for immigrant integration? This article argues that there are key problems with European uses of immigrant integration logics that cannot be resolved through redefinitions or reappropriations of the term. Even highly refined notions of immigrant integration misconstrue the role and releva…
A Crisis of Opportunity: Market‐Making, Big Data, and the Consolidation of Migration as Risk
Crisis narratives surrounding Europe’s 2015 migration influx fuelled demands for new ways of tracking, mapping and predicting human mobility. We explore how market opportunities for technology firms and data analytics start‐ups created by the EU’s Global Approach to Migration led to solutionistic approaches to compiling and analysing migration statistics. We show that initiatives such as the rebranding of existing platforms and services as migrat…
Of straw figures and multi-stakeholder monitoring – a response to Willem Schinkel
This article is a response to Willem Schinkel’s provocation piece. While mostly agreeing with Schinkel, my response questions Schinkel’s commitment to losing immigrant integration as an object of analysis. I point to the integrationist logic with which Schinkel assaults superdiversity, to more broadly question how prescriptive a social science that is ‘against immigrant integration’ should be
Legal status diversity: Regulating to Control and Everyday Contingencies
Tracing the link between population flux and the regulation of migration, this paper develops the argument that immigration status differentiations impact not only on categorical multiplicities but also on contingent dynamics in urban migration-related diversity. A better understanding of those contingencies is central to discussing processes of adaptation in contexts of superdiversity. I first point to the frequency of change in rules and regula…
Comparing Super-Diversity
This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2015, Vol. 38, No. 4.
Socialising with Diversity: Relational Diversity Through a Superdiversity Lens
This book analyses post-migration social networks via the notion of superdiversity. Approaching diversity as relational and complexly configured through multiple migration-related differentiations, it challenges us to rethink how we talk about and classify migrant networks. Based on research in two cities of migration - London and Toronto - the author investigates how we can use a superdiversity lens to discuss migrant networks in urban contexts.…
Comparing super-diversity
Reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about contemporary social complexity, the concept of 'super-diversity' has received considerable attention since it was introduced in this journal in 2007. Many utilizing the term have referred only to 'more ethnicities' rather than to the term's fuller, original intention of recognizing multidimensional shifts in migration patterns. These entail a worldwide diversification of migration…
Migration in migration-related diversity? The nexus between superdiversity and migration studies
This article argues that the notion of 'superdiversity' implies an investigation of diversity that goes well beyond the nature of migration origins and trajectories. To probe the academic value of superdiversity, I situate it within broader academic debates, suggesting that it is necessary to distinguish between superdiversity as a malleable social science concept - a set of variables that researchers conjunctively investigate - and superdiversit…
Comparing super-diversity
Reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about contemporary social complexity, the concept of 'super-diversity' has received considerable attention since it was introduced in this journal in 2007. Many utilizing the term have referred only to 'more ethnicities' rather than to the term's fuller, original intention of recognizing multidimensional shifts in migration patterns. These entail a worldwide diversification of migration…
Migration in migration-related diversity? The nexus between superdiversity and migration studies
This article argues that the notion of 'superdiversity' implies an investigation of diversity that goes well beyond the nature of migration origins and trajectories. To probe the academic value of superdiversity, I situate it within broader academic debates, suggesting that it is necessary to distinguish between superdiversity as a malleable social science concept - a set of variables that researchers conjunctively investigate - and superdiversit…
Legal status diversity: Regulating to Control and Everyday Contingencies
Tracing the link between population flux and the regulation of migration, this paper develops the argument that immigration status differentiations impact not only on categorical multiplicities but also on contingent dynamics in urban migration-related diversity. A better understanding of those contingencies is central to discussing processes of adaptation in contexts of superdiversity. I first point to the frequency of change in rules and regula…
Deromanticising integration: On the importance of convivial disintegration
In light of current experiences with migration-driven diversification, is it still conducive to think about the effects of international migration by advocating for immigrant integration? This article argues that there are key problems with European uses of immigrant integration logics that cannot be resolved through redefinitions or reappropriations of the term. Even highly refined notions of immigrant integration misconstrue the role and releva…
A Crisis of Opportunity: Market‐Making, Big Data, and the Consolidation of Migration as Risk
Crisis narratives surrounding Europe’s 2015 migration influx fuelled demands for new ways of tracking, mapping and predicting human mobility. We explore how market opportunities for technology firms and data analytics start‐ups created by the EU’s Global Approach to Migration led to solutionistic approaches to compiling and analysing migration statistics. We show that initiatives such as the rebranding of existing platforms and services as migrat…
Of straw figures and multi-stakeholder monitoring – a response to Willem Schinkel
This article is a response to Willem Schinkel’s provocation piece. While mostly agreeing with Schinkel, my response questions Schinkel’s commitment to losing immigrant integration as an object of analysis. I point to the integrationist logic with which Schinkel assaults superdiversity, to more broadly question how prescriptive a social science that is ‘against immigrant integration’ should be
Migration information infrastructures: Power, Control and Responsibility at a New Frontier of Migration Research
The nature and production of migration statistics are in flux. State bureaucracies are no longer the primary source of migration data. Instead, there are a myriad unofficial data sources and processing collaborations which produce migration and mobility data as a by-product of both commercial and governmental processes. This has implications both for international processes of migration assessment and control, and for states’ domestic policies wi…
Techno-material entanglements and the social organisation of difference
Comparing super-diversity
Reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about contemporary social complexity, the concept of 'super-diversity' has received considerable attention since it was introduced in this journal in 2007. Many utilizing the term have referred only to 'more ethnicities' rather than to the term's fuller, original intention of recognizing multidimensional shifts in migration patterns. These entail a worldwide diversification of migration…
Migration in migration-related diversity? The nexus between superdiversity and migration studies
This article argues that the notion of 'superdiversity' implies an investigation of diversity that goes well beyond the nature of migration origins and trajectories. To probe the academic value of superdiversity, I situate it within broader academic debates, suggesting that it is necessary to distinguish between superdiversity as a malleable social science concept - a set of variables that researchers conjunctively investigate - and superdiversit…
Socialising with Diversity: Relational Diversity Through a Superdiversity Lens
This book analyses post-migration social networks via the notion of superdiversity. Approaching diversity as relational and complexly configured through multiple migration-related differentiations, it challenges us to rethink how we talk about and classify migrant networks. Based on research in two cities of migration - London and Toronto - the author investigates how we can use a superdiversity lens to discuss migrant networks in urban contexts.…
Comparing Super-Diversity
This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2015, Vol. 38, No. 4.
Legal status diversity: Regulating to Control and Everyday Contingencies
Tracing the link between population flux and the regulation of migration, this paper develops the argument that immigration status differentiations impact not only on categorical multiplicities but also on contingent dynamics in urban migration-related diversity. A better understanding of those contingencies is central to discussing processes of adaptation in contexts of superdiversity. I first point to the frequency of change in rules and regula…
Of straw figures and multi-stakeholder monitoring – a response to Willem Schinkel
This article is a response to Willem Schinkel’s provocation piece. While mostly agreeing with Schinkel, my response questions Schinkel’s commitment to losing immigrant integration as an object of analysis. I point to the integrationist logic with which Schinkel assaults superdiversity, to more broadly question how prescriptive a social science that is ‘against immigrant integration’ should be
Deromanticising integration: On the importance of convivial disintegration
In light of current experiences with migration-driven diversification, is it still conducive to think about the effects of international migration by advocating for immigrant integration? This article argues that there are key problems with European uses of immigrant integration logics that cannot be resolved through redefinitions or reappropriations of the term. Even highly refined notions of immigrant integration misconstrue the role and releva…
A Crisis of Opportunity: Market‐Making, Big Data, and the Consolidation of Migration as Risk
Crisis narratives surrounding Europe’s 2015 migration influx fuelled demands for new ways of tracking, mapping and predicting human mobility. We explore how market opportunities for technology firms and data analytics start‐ups created by the EU’s Global Approach to Migration led to solutionistic approaches to compiling and analysing migration statistics. We show that initiatives such as the rebranding of existing platforms and services as migrat…
Afterword: Superdiversity Futures
This afterword offers insights into where superdiversity is heading, how it speaks to broader debates in the social sciences, and some of the omissions from the book. The editorial team considers, on the one hand, how events such as the global Covid-19 pandemic and the unfolding climate and environmental crisis are impacting the dynamics of international and internal migration as well as their relevance for studying superdiversity. On the other h…
Copyright Page
About the Editors
The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity
Old immigration hubs and new ones worldwide have experienced rapid and increasing movements of people from more varied national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. These movements have emerged along with a diversification of migration channels and legal statuses. In concurrent but differing ways, these migration-driven trends profoundly transform societies in complex ways spanning social, demographic, cultural, economic, and political…
Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity
Migration information infrastructures: Power, Control and Responsibility at a New Frontier of Migration Research
The nature and production of migration statistics are in flux. State bureaucracies are no longer the primary source of migration data. Instead, there are a myriad unofficial data sources and processing collaborations which produce migration and mobility data as a by-product of both commercial and governmental processes. This has implications both for international processes of migration assessment and control, and for states’ domestic policies wi…
Techno-material entanglements and the social organisation of difference
Safety in the Techno-Mediated City: Insights from Bengaluru's AI-Powered CCTV Network
Despite ample criticisms, cities are increasingly using closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, justified by citing urban safety. How safety is evoked within such technology-laden projects is little studied. To address this gap, we empirically investigated the Bengaluru Safe City Project, an AI-powered surveillance system. We qualitatively analyzed key documents describing the surveillance system’s …
Sociology (11 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Diversity (politics) (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Economics (4 works)