Segregation, Social Polarization and Immigration in Athens during the 1990s: Theoretical Expectations and Contextual Difference

摘要: This article investigates trends in segregation, polarization and inequality Athens during the 1990s, focuses on what may seem a paradoxical coexistence of decreasing segregation with increasing social inequality. To explain this coexistence, examines distinction between specific contexts dominant assumptions about polarization, which derive from global city thesis, structure city's housing market, prevented substantial wave immigration 1990s intensifying segregation. Arguing for more context awareness, does not try to stress specificity Athenian case, but, mainly, reveal context-dependent character and, therefore, show their limitations.