• Provides a specific focus on class and ethnicity as elements of urban marginality and demonstrates the importance of a spatial understanding of these processes. 

• Provides critical engagement with Loic Wacquant’s work challenging them and developing them in innovative and ground-breaking ways

• Takes a genuinely international and interdisciplinary approach, utilising a range of national and policy contexts and combining robust empirical data with new theoretical and conceptual frameworks

• Includes contributions from both established and emerging leading urban scholars at the cutting edge of urban studies