Inequalities in Geographical Space

Clémentine Cottineau is a geographer, researcher at CNRS, France, and Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on urban models and the analysis of socioeconomic inequalities within and between cities.Julie Vallée is a research director at CNRS, France, in the Géographie-cités laboratory, and a geographer. Her research focuses on daily mobility, urban segregation, place-based effects and social inequalities, especially in health.

• Introduction xiClémentine COTTINEAU and Julie VALLÉEChapter 1 The Spatial Dimension of Educational Inequalities 1Leïla FROUILLOU1.1 Introduction 11.2 School segregation as the central object of socio-geographical approaches to school inequalities 51.3 The spatial dimension of educational inequalities: from policies to trajectories 111.4 Conclusion: spatial dimension of inequalities and the interweaving of levels of analysis 191.5 References 20Chapter 2 Socio-spatial Inequalities and Intersectionality 27Negar Élodie BEHZADI and Lucia DIRENBERGER2.1 Relationships between power relations, inequalities and space 282.2 Work and socio-spatial inequalities 332.3 Othering processes and spaces: the place of the other 402.4 Agency and minority spaces 452.5 Conclusion 492.6 References 51Chapter 3 Migration, Multi-situated Inequalities and the World Economy 61Laurence ROULLEAU-BERGER3.1 Toward a sociology of inequalities and migrations 623.2 International cities and migrant workers 663.3 Multi-situated inequalities and biographical bifurcations 703.4 Moral careers and the struggle for recognition 723.5 The plurality and hierarchy of transnationalisms 743.6 Forced migration, downgrading and expulsions 783.7 Conclusion 803.8 References 80Chapter 4 The Geographical Dimension of Inequalities in Access to Employment 85Philippe ASKENAZY and Verónica ESCUDERO4.1 Introduction 854.2 Compensatory differences between territories 894.3 Immobility and spatial mismatch 914.4 The importance of couples' geographic trade-offs in individuals' access to employment 974.5 Labor market networks and access to employment 1024.6 Digital space: the abolition of geographical constraints? 1044.7 Conclusion 1114.8 References 113Chapter 5 The Perception of Inequality and Poverty in the Most Segregated, Affluent Neighborhoods 119Serge PAUGAM5.1 Studying the perception of poverty 1225.2 The constitution of a moral boundary 1275.3 Keeping out the working class 1305.4 Justifying class inequality and poverty 1365.5 Conclusion 1435.6 References 146Chapter 6 Modeling Inequalities in Geographical Space 151Clémentine COTTINEAU6.1 Introduction: different modeling formalisms for different purposes 1516.2 Inequality in the distribution of economic resources and in its spatial distribution 1526.3 Statistical regression models: estimating the effects of geographic location on inequality 1606.4 Simulation models to explain and illustrate the dynamics of inequalities in geographical space 1696.5 Conclusion 1766.6 References 177Chapter 7 A Critical Reading of Neighborhood-based Policies and their Geography 183Julie VALLÉE7.1 A geography plagued by contradictions 1847.2 Reductive policies 1907.3 Temporal dynamics of priority neighborhoods 1947.4 Conclusion 2057.5 References 206List of Authors 211Index 213