ghettoization
English
Alternative forms
- ghettoisation (mostly UK)
Etymology
ghettoize + -ation
Noun
ghettoization (countable and uncountable, plural ghettoizations)
- The process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area.
- 1988, January 15, “Ben Joravsky”, in A strip mall in Edgewater: class warfare, or small-time tiff?:
- It's all part of a move toward ghettoization, they charge, an attempt to make the poor feel so shamefully unwanted that they will leave the area.
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- The process of ghettoizing (a group): the segregation/isolation of a group and placement of that group into a figurative or literal position of little power.