Nexus of vulnerabilities and rise of urban necropolitics: susceptibility to heat stress and difficulties accessing healthcare, a study of the living conditions of immigrants in Paris.

This study investigates the nexus of climate vulnerability and urban necropolitics among immigrantpopulations in Paris, where systemic inequities amplify health risks due to a combination of extremeheat and pollution exposure coupled with inadequate access to healthcare. Using a mixed-methodsapproach, including spatial analysis of publicly available environmental and healthcare data, wehighlight the role of necropolitics in structuring ‘death zones’ in Paris’s immigrant districts. Thesezones – where environmental neglect, socio-economic disadvantage, and restricted healthcareconverge – exemplify necropolitical dynamics, relegating marginalized groups to hazardous livingconditions with limited means of survival. The research concludes that unequal investment on greenspaces and lack of access to healthcare does not only diminish the quality of life of marginalizedinhabitants, but turns living conditions into death-worlds characterized by seemingly inescapablesubstandard conditions of living. Without targeted policy reform to address these compoundedvulnerabilities, necropolitical forces will continue to entrench social and health disparities, markingcertain urban spaces as ‘death-worlds’ in the face of intensifying climate crises