Increasing numbers of second-generation Muslims are highly qualified and locally
embedded in today's European cities. This does not protect them, however, from
experiencing discrimination in intergroup encounters in school, at work, or in
the street. Taking an approach from local intergroup relations between ethnic
minorities and the majority society, we draw on the TIES (The Integration of the
European Second Generation) surveys to compare Turkish and Moroccan minorities
and majority Belgians in Antwerp, Belgium. Our research aims (1) to establish
minority and majority perspectives on (reverse) personal discrimination (2) in
different life domains, and (3) to differentiate internally between gender,
socioeconomic attainments, and local climates. Structural equation models show
minority and majority group perspectives on discrimination as gendered and
situated inter-group encounters in socioeconomic and civic domains of life.
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