The Tourist, the Migrant, and the Anthropologist: A Problematic Encounter within European Cities.

Since the early 2000s, large metropolises have become a key context in which scholars have applied the new mobility paradigm and framed different varieties of the migration-tourism nexus. This chapter aims to explore to what extent anthropology can contribute to imagining projects able to configure encounters between tourists and migrants as transformative experiences, capable of generating actions to achieve greater mobility justice. To this end, the research presents a critical reflection about Migrantour, a network of groups in about 20 European cities where first- and second-generation migrants have created intercultural urban itineraries and accompanied walks aimed at tourists, residents, and students. The analysis is based on a body of 50 in-depth interviews conducted with migrants, tourists, students, and members of the project staff, as well as on prolonged ethnographic observations of the decision- making processes that developed the initiative. Via this case study, the chapter explores the potential and limits of intercultural urban tourism for realizing the aspiration to live together “in difference,” which constitutes one of the possible outcomes of the relations produced by mobility.