1 Introduction Should it trouble relational egalitarians that different social groups live apart?1 Public institutions act as though it should: they engineer ‘social mixing’ in the places where people live, especially in poorer neighbourhoods, and they justify these measures, at least in part, by appeal to equality.2 Beneath such policies lies an assumption that is rarely made explicit: that the very fact that groups live apart is itself a form of injustice, so that bringing them together is...
