Geographies of (un)ease: Embodying racial stigma and social navigation in public spaces in a reluctantly super-diverse city

Combining insights from sociology, geography, and race-ethnicity studies, this exploratory study examines how young middle-class Moroccan-Dutch men navigate geographies of (un)ease the subsequent coping strategies they employ in public spaces Rotterdam. Drawing on 12 semi-structured walking interviews Rotterdam, our findings reveal that is not only affected by types surrounding bodies amount attention directed at these bodies, but also spatial temporal factors, such as day-night, quietness-liveliness, whiteness-racialization, immobility-mobility familiarity-unfamiliarity. Furthermore, we mapped men’s geography (un)ease, showing stigma spatially situated relation to different neighborhoods. In contrast previous respondents did seem opt for conflict avoidant their main utilized were ignoring, avoiding, reforming contesting.