Everyday geographies of marginality and encounter in the multicultural city

In the context of widespread public debate over the future of multiculturalism in the UK, this chapter tackles the issue of inter-ethnic relations as found in a speci"c urban area of the UK; the city of Leicester in the East Midlands of England.1 With debate increasingly focussed upon the ills of residential segregation and the separate development of communities alongside a need for greater interethnic contact and shared values, I show how the geographies of everyday multiculturalism work to condition forms of racism and acceptance through both cultures of marginality and practices of inter-ethnic encounter.