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Social differentiation has a long tradition in the study of cities. Large capital and global cities are distinguished by strong territorial and social polarization of the population, which is principally important in geographic research of intraurban structure changes (social, demographic, familial, cultural, educational, transportation, etc.). Global centers like London, Paris and Moscow are attractors of migrants: they become like a conflict arena for different ethnic and social groups. Berlin and Madrid are not the largest cities (except population) of their countries but they were taken as examples of new centers of immigration. For Moscow, it is especially important to reveal the dependence between prices of residential real estate and settlement pattern of immigrants, since the number of immigrants is increasing. The study of the conflict causes was the most appropriate after the events in Paris (2005), in Moscow (2010), and in Berlin, Oslo, London (2011), which shown the migrants adaptation ineffectiveness and social and regional differences reduction. However despite this, the immigration inflow continues. The issue of immigrants settling in the Russian cities and its impact is still much less studied. Therefore, the experience of European countries is particularly important for Moscow, especially for migration processes management, negative effects mollification and common indicators of social stratification usage, because at present this problem becomes more obvious that require attention, monitoring and solutions.