Steven Vertovec is Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany.

This book presents essays pointing toward a number of possible new directions - both theoretical and methodological - for anthropological inquiry into migration and multiculturalism.

1. Introduction: New directions in the anthropology of migration and multiculturalism Steven Vertovec 2. An excess of alterity? Debating difference in a multicultural society Ralph Grillo 3. How exceptional is New York? Migration and multiculturalism in the empire city Nancy Foner 4. Super-diversity and its implications Steven Vertovec 5. Complexity in social and cultural integration: Some analytical dimensions Thomas Hylland Eriksen 6. Rescaling cities, cultural diversity and transnationalism: Migrants of Mardin and Essen Ayse Caglar 7. The two faces of transnational citizenship Michael Peter Smith 8. Risk, trust, gender and transnational cousin marriage among British Pakistanis Katharine Charsley 9. Migration, assimilation and the cultural construction of identity: Navajo perspectives Louise Lamphere