pseudocolonization

plural pseudocolonizations

1. countableuncountableSomething which resembles or appears to be colonization (in various senses), but is really not.

   She [Gloria Anzaldúa] notes that "North Americans call this return to the homeland the silent invasion," but she begins with the pseudocolonization of Mexico by the United States: […]

   2000, Deborah L. Madsen, Understanding Contemporary Chicana Literature, Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 14

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   We have been working for the past 18 years on a taxonomic revision of the ants of Puerto Rico, and this fact has enabled us to avoid erroneously recording extinctions and colonizations because of misidenti®cations. Species misidentifications could result in pseudoextinctions and pseudocolonization, while the number of species does not change (in perfect agreement with the MacArthur and Wilson model).

   1997 August, Juan A. Torres, Roy R. Snelling, “Biogeography of Puerto Rican ants: a non-equilibrium case?”, in Biodiversity and Conservation, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1106