Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; 1: Introduction: Putting Wacquant to Work; Introduction; Theory, Empiricism, Reflexivity: Wacquant as "Post-philosophical" Sociologist; Wacquant in the Polarized Metropolis: Key Concepts; Outline of the Book; References; 2: Class, Ethnicity and State in the Making of Urban Marginality; References; Part I: Class: Gender, Families and Surveillance; 3: 'We live like prisoners in a camp': Surveillance, Governance and Agency in a US Housing Project; Introduction; How a 'Forgotten Neighbourhood' Became a Ghetto

Surveillance: Management of 'the Projects'Control: Management of Poor Black Mothers; Hidden Transcripts and Practices With(in) Punitive Containment; Conclusions; References; 4: Maternal Outcasts: Governing Vulnerable Mothers in Advanced Marginality; Introduction; Mothers as Targets of the Centaur State; Women in the 'Carceral-Assistantial Net'; Feminist-Informed Research: Listening to Marginalised Voices; Social Profile of Mothers in Advanced Marginality; Motherhood Vignettes: Amy, Carly, Sylvia; Amy; Carly; Sylvia; Bad Starts and the Myth of Social Mobility

Maternal Outcasts and Precious CargoChild Removal: A Life Sentence; Conclusion; References; 5: Exploring Family-Based Intervention Mechanisms as a Form of Statecraft; Introduction; Policy and Research Context; Urban Marginality and Policy Programme Rationalities; Application of Wacquant's Work; Conclusion; References; Part II: Ethnicity: Invisibilization, Informality and (Dis)identifications; 6: Fluid Identifications in the Age of Advanced Marginality; In the 'Hood: Identifications and Social Scenes; Out of the 'Hood: Identifications and Territorial Circulations

Identifications and TemporalityIdentifications, Border Crossing, and Contextualization; Some Biases; References; 7: Informality and the Neo-Ghetto: Modulating Power Through Roma Camps; Introduction; Constructing and Diffusing the Neo-Ghetto; Chronology: The Production of Spatialized Race; Phase 1: From Neglect to Essentialization; Phase 2: Securitization and Confinement; Phase 3: Carceral-Assistentialism Consolidated; Phase 4: Contemporary Regulatory Opacity; The Neo-Ghetto: Flexible and Diffuse Confinement

The Leaking Neo-Ghetto: Advanced Marginality, Informality and Spatially Diffuse PenalityConclusion; References; 8: Housing, Ethnicity and Advanced Marginality in England; Introduction; Advanced Marginality and the New Politics of Community; Demystifying the English Housing Crisis: Deregulation and Commodification; From Progressive to Retrogressive Convergence; Conclusions; References; Part III: State: Governing Marginality-Home, Street, Neighbourhood, City; 9: All Leviathan's Children: Race, Punishment and the (Re-)Making of the City; Introduction: City Living; Hyperincarceration and Social Inequality in the United States