As an agent of neoliberalism, in current and former colonies gentrification is little more than an extension of imperialism by other means. This is the case even when the gentrifiers are indigenous or other colonised peoples. It is economic, political, and social colonisation of the working class by the international and domestic middle and upper classes. In the end it is always the working class generally which is colonised. and the colonisers are the hipsters and other yuppies.