In search of a cool identity: how young people negotiate religious and ethnic boundaries in a superdiverse context

In this paper, we aim to study how young people navigate a super-diverse majority-minority context, and they negotiate bright religious ethnic symbolic boundaries. Our is based on 40 in-depth interviews with from various ethnic, social backgrounds in the city of Antwerp. analysis shows that generally draw cultural repertoire commonplace diversity peer relations present as normal element everyday life. However, our also minority youth experience boundaries need exclusion processes. While rework by inverting their othered position redefining coolness through hybridity, white majority face new challenges previously taken-for-granted dominant becomes questioned contested within setting. manage changing drawing upon repertoires purity ‘normal’ youthfulness, yet raises question whether can repertoires, which do not imply nativist identity politics.