Conventional placed-based perspectives on racial or ethnic segregation often do not take into account peoples actual daily experiences of social disadvantage or isolation.People not only move around and may access resources in neighborhoods beyond their residence.They may also have social encounters that significantly modify their experience of social disadvantage or discrimination.Thus, living or working in less segregated environments (e.g., racially mixed residential neighborhoods, workplaces or schools) do not necessarily mean higher exposure to social advantage or more positive experience for racial or ethnic minorities.As many past studies have shown, it may instead mean more intense exposure to racism and other intersectional discriminatory practices or oppressive encounters.To fully understand peoples experiences of segregation and social disadvantage, we need to go beyond spatial proximity of social groups to examine how oppressive power relations pervade micro spaces (and times) of everyday encounters.