From the project site: "Contrary to an older literature that equated globalization with the erosion of difference, the project asks how the era's intensifying cross-continental networks related to dissimilarities in urban space, considering cities as encapsulations of the knot-like nature of long-distance connections. Drawing on social-science methods developed to study segregation in North American cities, the project redirects scholarly attention to port cities of the Global South as bridgeheads of uneven globalization and laboratories for the negotiation of ethnicity. With its empirical and historical emphasis on ethnic clustering in such cities, the project adds historical depth to discussions concerning the relationship between globalization and a particular form of inequality."
Prof. Michael Goebel runs a podcast that discusses globalization and segregation on a global level.