ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on inequalities that are produced when a migrant background, race-ethnic diversity, poverty and class intersect. It presents some theoretical reflections on the concept of inequalities. The chapter analyses the relationships between inequalities and spatial distribution in urban settings, exploring the ambivalent value of ethnic enclaves and presenting some vignettes from the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Stockholm among Somali migrants. It tackles inequalities in domestic spaces where dwelling occurred in conditions of precarity, focusing on social status and on daily and affective relations. The chapter analyses squats for housing needs in Europe, and particularly in Rome. Inequalities are related to a wider group of terms that include, among many others, vulnerability, marginality and precarity. In debates on these topics, the anthropological contribution has been to caution us against general theories and ‘super concepts’.
