This paper is situated in the contemporary experiences of third and fourth-generation ethnic minority descendents of postcolonial immigrants and denizens, who settled in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s. Irrespective of their European place of birth and fluency in their respective European cultural settings, these post-diasporic citizens continue to experience their lives in part as the outsiders and marginalized ethno-racial minorities. Refusing to be excluded, segregated, or assimilated, a dominant identity strategy among post-diasporic Europeans is a multicultural citizenship that combines a connection with ethno-racial roots with a rootedness in the daily routines of their locales. While the daily experiences of life routinely incorporate a degree of conviviality, the identity strategy cannot be described as 'banal multiculturalism'. On the contrary, it is a reflexive experience of plural being that corresponds to the development of a multi-level conception of citizenship and an assertive politics of voice
