Towards a differentiated notion of the mainstream: superdiversity and residents’ conceptions of immigrant integration

Recent critiques of integration and superdiversity scholarship pointed out a need to pay more attention the positioning established residents, also referred as 'the mainstream', develop novel understandings urban residents’ reactions contestations presence newcomers. Drawing on ethnographic insights from 2015 in large German city, this article identifies spectrum installation reception centre for asylum seekers among residents involved neighbourhood renewal programme. It delineates how themselves mobilize an discourse, associate newcomers with economic burden rely state integrating them. notion ‘Emplacement’, highlights occupation newcomers' can be understood relation their activity carving place contemporary diverse stratified environments.