Superdiversity, the “new bespokism”, and hierarchies of belonging: the Homes for Ukraine scheme in the UK

作者：Mette Louise Berg, Silke Zschomler · 发表于：Ethnic and Racial Studies · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1080/01419870.2025.2461252 · 被引用次数：4

ABSTRACT This article focuses on the proliferation of migration channels and immigration statuses as a constitutive characteristic of superdiversity [Vertovec, Steven. 2007. “Super-diversity and its Implications.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 30 (6): 1024–1054. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870701599465]. It offers critical reflections on the UK’s “new bespokism” (Tomlinson 2023) through the lens of the “Homes for Ukraine” scheme (HfU), a hosting scheme for Ukrainians fleeing their country after Russia’s 2022 invasion. The scheme has created new geographies of support in a period of increasing economic inequality and bordering. HfU is one way the state organises racialised, classed, and gendered “hierarchies of belonging” [Back, Les, and Shamser Sinha. 2018. Migrant City, Routledge Advances in Ethnography. London, NY: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group], adding further layers of complexity, fractioning, and inequalities to the already stratified landscape of the UK’s immigration statuses. HfU may appear as the friendly face of the UK’s “brutal migration milieu” [Hall, Suzanne M. 2017. “Mooring “Super-Diversity” to a Brutal Migration Milieu.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40 (9): 1562–1573. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1300296], but it contains its own contradictions in its exclusionary remit. The article is based on qualitative research in a London borough and Oxford/shire.