Urban Marginality in the Coming Millennium

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10859596
AutoresL Wacquant (0000-0002-4997-0759, University of California, Berkeley, autor de correspondencia)
Año1999
Volumen36
Número10
Páginas1639-1647
Fecha de publicación1999-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/0042098992746
OpenAlexW1517686388
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas99
Referencias citadas5

This paper sketches a characterisation of the regime of urban marginality that has emerged in advanced societies since the close of the Fordist era, highlighting four logics that combine to produce it: a macrosocietal drift towards inequality, the mutation of wage labour (entailing both deproletarianisation and casualisation), the retrenchment of welfare states, and the spatial concentration and stigmatisation of poverty. The rise of this new marginality does not signal a transatlantic convergence on the American pattern: European neighbourhoods of relegation are deeply penetrated by the state and ethnoracial tensions in them are fuelled, not by the growing gap between immigrants and natives, but by their increasing propinquity in social and physical space. To cope with emergent forms of urban marginality, societies face a three-pronged alternative: they can patch up existing programmes of the welfare state, criminalise poverty via the punitive containment of the poor, or institute new social rights that sever subsistence from performance in the labour market

Art · Economics · Humanities · Political science · Welfare economics · Latin American Urban Studies