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English
Etymology
From 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, “A strip mall in Edgewater: class warfare, or small-time tiff?”, in Chicago Reader: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.
- 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.
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