UNIC Lightning Bites | Everyday Racism and Discrimination in Public Space: Chinese International Students and the Second- and Third-Generation Chinese in Milan and Brussels

Within the framework of UNIC Lightning Bites series focused on Superdiversity Unpacked: Insights for Tomorrow's Cities we explore how superdiversity shapes cities and citizens, fostering new forms of urban innovation, social cohesion, and cultural transformation.

PhD candidate Masako Nemoto, from the University of Liège gives a talk on the Everyday Racism and Discrimination in Public Space: Chinese International Students and the Second- and Third-Generation Chinese in Milan and Brussels. Through her research, Professor Nemoto examines how Chinese immigrants in Milan and Brussels, both Chinese international students and second- and third-generation Chinese students, encounter, interpret, and respond to everyday racism and discrimination in public space. In this presentation, Masako Nemoto introduces:

• The key theories applied in her research, including Everyday Racism (Essed, 1991), Intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1989), and the concept of Public Space (mainly used Lefebvre, 1991), and
• The main findings from the Milan case studies, based on both individual interviews and focus group discussions.