Superdiversity Superdiversity

and the and the

political political

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Thinking out of the box

through global

migration

Maarten LoopmansMaarten Loopmans

Social & Urban Geography Research GroupSocial & Urban Geography Research Group

Superdiversity politics

Connectivity politics: the struggle for

the city is a struggle for the world

Propinquity: the global becomes personal

Connectivity, propinquity and

solidarity outside the box

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Remittances vs FDI and development

aid in Senegal

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Remittances: share of GDP

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The birth of Global Politics: towards

Urban Grassroots Globalism

“Things will only change when Belgium realizes

that no country is an island, that there are

consequences for actions and that yes, the

world has moved on. ” (C. Unigwe, 2014)