This presentation explores the concept of ‘superdiversity’, how it emerged and what it represents. However, the paper also cautions to the ever-increasing and widening usage of the term and its failure to interrogate modes of privilege, precarity, and power. This paper argues that capturing and describing new urban and global complexities requires a focus on ‘transnational contentious spaces’ (Steinhilper, 2018), linking the lived and emotional experience of mobility with the relational qualities of space in host societies as a way of promoting solidarity, participation, and the political agency of migrants.