ghettoization

plural ghettoizations · alternative UK ghettoisation

1. countableuncountableThe process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area.

   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.

   1988 January 15, Ben Joravsky, “A strip mall in Edgewater: class warfare, or small-time tiff?”, in Chicago Reader

2. countableuncountableThe 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.