This paper tries to answer to the question : « Have geographers anything to say about exclusion ? » First they disqualify the assimilation made by the decision makers between spatial segregation or social division of space and ethnic and social exclusion. More, by precise analysis of localities, areas and spaces, like what was done in three rural « arrondissements » of France, they can say something about the spatial dimension of exclusion processes as well as about the role of the quality of spaces on the indivdual representations of social regression, and about the evaluation of the practices of associations and local collectivities in front of the « rising underclass ».
