Towards innovative mixed-methods approaches to studying living multicultural in small cities

In a new era of global migration, diverse forms of urban mobility, migration settlement, and resettlement have contributed to the reshaping of national populations and localities, paving the way for new encounters, exchanges, and tensions (Neal et al., 2018). In this context, cities are not only the terrain on which these entangled relationships unfold, but these relationships shape them. Indeed, studies on multiculture demand a new focus on place and space because they are vital to understanding how multicultural social relations are enacted and lived. Informed by the recent postcolonial turn in urban studies that calls for a decentralisation of urban theory (Robinson, 2006), this seminar series will bring together academics, early career researchers and art-based practitioners in thinking and learning about mixed methods research practices for understanding and describing heterogeneous formations of multiculture across different local contexts: Leicester (UK), Prato (Italy) and Antwerp (Belgium).