The house, known as Fortress Fitt after security grills and an entry phone system were installed, was in an area of north Belfast patchworked with Protestant and Catholic enclaves, and notorious for the highest number of sectarian attacks in the province.
And there are few richer enclaves than the Islington district of Barnsbury, where the commune is located.
From sub-Saharan Africa, all routes point north, either to Libya and Egypt for those from the Horn of Africa, or Morocco with its tiny Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, and Tunisia for those from west Africa.
The large-scale movement of students to small enclaves has resulted in an array of anti-social issues, residents claim, including noise, poorly maintained properties, increased pressure on parking during term-time and litter.
And so endlessly on, until you end up with what a sprawl of what A Sivanadan terms "cultural enclaves and feuding nationalisms".
I've seen fresh footprints of Bengal tigers where they crossed in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh, proboscis monkeys peering from trees in Malaysia, and immense sea crocodiles launching themselves from primordial shores towards our boat in emerald enclaves of India's Bhitarakanika sanctuary.
Why, Turkish Cypriots often ask, were outside powers so loth to speak up when they were being bullied into ethnic enclaves by the Greek-Cypriot majority in the 1960s?
These districts suit not only black and Latino Democrats, who easily win election in such enclaves, but also conservative white Republicans, who win in all the contiguous places from which the minorities have been gerrymandered out.Yet the system also leaves plenty of discretion with the party in power.
These dumb Swedes created the best-governed enclaves in America, such as Minnesota.
Darfur's main rebel groups denied the Sudanese government's claims that they were responsible.Moscow calls the shotsRussia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, gave formal recognition to Georgia's breakaway enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent countries.
If the Nisga'a prosper, they may also calm the fears of some Canadians that the First Nations are bent on creating separatist enclaves.
