ABSTRACT

Urban Segregation and the Welfare State examines ethnic and socio-economic segregation patterns, social polarisation, and social exclusion in major cities in the Western world. Contributors from across North America and Europe provide in-depth analysis of particular cities, ranging from Johannesburg, Chicago and Toronto to Amsterdam, Stockholm and Belfast. The authors highlight the social problems in and of cities, indicating differences between nation-states in terms of economic restructuring, migration, welfare state regimes and "ethnic history".

chapter 3|17 pages

Assimilation and Exclusion in US Cities

The treatment of African-Americans and immigrants

chapter 4|19 pages

Chicago

Segregation and the New Urban Poverty

chapter 5|30 pages

The Welfare State, Economic Restructuring and Immigrant Flows

Impacts on socio-spatial segregation in Greater Toronto

chapter 6|16 pages

Exclusion and Inclusion

Segregation and deprivation in Belfast

chapter 10|23 pages

Social Inequality, Segregation and Urban Conflict

The case of Hamburg

chapter 11|15 pages

Segregation and Social Participation in a Welfare State

The case of Amsterdam

chapter 12|17 pages

The Divided City?

Socio-economic changes in Stockholm metropolitan area, 1970–94