The process or result of segregating people into a specific area, or the creation of a ghetto.
From ghettoize plus the suffix -ation. This nominal form emphasizes the systemic process and outcome of turning neighborhoods into segregated ghettos through policy or prejudice.
This academic-sounding word actually describes something serious—how neighborhoods become segregated through deliberate policies like redlining, showing how language can make discrimination sound neutral and official.
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