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| A suburban ethnic neighborhood, sometimes home to relatively affluent immigration populations |
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| A suburban ethnic neighborhood, sometimes home to relatively affluent immigration populations |
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| The removal of unwanted ethnic minority populations from a nationstate through mass killing, deportation, or imprisonment |
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| The process by which immigrant ethnic groups lose certain aspects of their traditional culture in the process of settling overseas, creating a new culture that is less complex than the old. |
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| Customary behaviors associated with food preparation and consumption |
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| The complete blending of an ethnic group into the host society resulting in the loss of all distinctive ethnic traits. |
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| The study of the spatial aspects of ethnicity |
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| The adoption by an ethnic group of enough of the ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially. |
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| A migration process in which a specific source location becomes linked to a particular destination, so that neighbors in the old place become neighbors in the new place. |
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| The targeting of areas where ethnic or racial minorities live with respect to environmental contamination or failure to enforce environmental regulations |
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| A voluntary community where people of like origin reside by choice |
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| Traditionally, an area within a city where an ethnic group lives, either by choice or by force. Today in the United States, the term typically indicates an impoverished AfricanAmerican urban neighborhood. |
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| A readily visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape. |
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| Regional cultural distinctiveness that remains following the assimilation of an ethnic homeland. |
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| A sizable area inhabited by an ethnic minority that exhibits a strong sense of attachment to the region and often exercises some measure of political and social control over it. |
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| A classification system that is sometimes understood as arising from genetically significant differences among human populations, or visible differences in human physiognomy, or as a social construction that varies across time and space |
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| A group of people who share a common ancestry and cultural tradition, often living as a minority group in a larger society |
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| The tendency of people to migrate along channels, over a period of time, from specific source areas to specific destinations. |
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| Poor or inadequate adaptation that occurs when a group pursues an adaptive strategy that, in the short run, fails to provide the necessities of life or, in the long run, destroys the environment that nourishes it. |
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| Also called forced migration, refers to the forced displacement of a population, whether by government policy (such as a resettlement program), warfare or other violence, ethnic cleansing, disease, natural disaster, or enslavement. |
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| A type of ethnic diffusion that involves the voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to its ancestral or native country or homeland. |
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| A small ethnic area in the rural countryside; sometimes called a “folk island.” |
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| The belief that human capabilities are determined by racial classification and that some races are superior to others |
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