Nick Dines is an urban sociologist and is currently Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Fiesole. He is the author of numerous publications on contemporary urban change and international migration, including the monograph Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples (New York, 2012). Among his current projects, he is researching on the politics of cultural diversity in Rabat and Cape Town.