Living together (and apart) on the move: new directions in everyday multiculturalism.

<p dir="ltr">This paper advances research on everyday multiculturalism in three<br>key ways. Firstly, it puts into practice convivial disintegration, which<br>challenges expectations of integration in all sorts of ways,<br>highlighting how lives are lived on the move even though<br>immigration legislation and social cohesion agendas suggest<br>otherwise. Secondly, the paper widens everyday<br>multiculturalism’s “narrow geographies of encounter” to explore<br>not just where people are thrown together, but the wherewithal<br>of individuals – the worldly wisdom they embody and the<br>competencies they develop – as they move around. The paper<br>explores how wherewithal mediates experiences of fragmented<br>togetherness in a super diverse, “segregated” city. Thirdly, to<br>explore participants’ mobilities and wherewithal, we experiment<br>with go-along interviews in the immersive 3D environment of<br>Google Earth Virtual Reality. The paper demonstrates the<br>importance of mobile methods in researching how people live<br>together, offering insights relevant for policy agendas focused on<br>convivial disintegration and alternatives to integration.<br></p>