Soziale Ausgrenzung und lokale Fursorge in europaischen Stadten

One of the crucial problems of the present transition is the idea that urban forms of poverty are expanding and assuming features of persisting difficulties leading to social exclusion. There is now increasing evidence that urban social exclusion assumes different forms – mainly isolated individuals, single-parent households, large families supported by a single low income, discriminated migrants and minorities – in different urban contexts and that local welfare adapts in different ways to these diversified processes of changes. This variety of social construction of the marginalized population and of local welfare responses is explored here with a comparative approach in a certain number of continental European cities.