English

Alternative forms

• ghettoisation (mostly UK)

Noun

ghettoization ‎(countable and uncountable, plural ghettoizations)

1. 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.

2. The process of ghettoizing (a group): the segregation/isolation of a group and placment of that group into a figurative or literal position of little power.