Segregation in the cities of the European Mediterranean

Studies of urban segregation have proliferated since the 1990s, spurred by debate on the impact of globalization on the socio-spatial structure of cities. Some studies have found segregation to increase in post-Fordist cities, either taking the form of socio-spatial ‘dualization’ (SASSEN, 1991) or a ‘fragmentation’ affecting all social categories that goes so far as to threaten the very existence of the city as a political community (SANTOS, 1990; MARCUSE and VAN KEMPEN, 1999; SOJA, 2000; BEN..