ethnization
nounEtymology From ethno- + -ization.
1
The act or process of making a group into, or of becoming as a group, an ethnicity or distinct people.
- This ethnization observed by Bukow and Llaryora in the conceptualization of newly immigrated minorities can also be observed with regard to "resident" minorities like the Sorbs.1998, Ethnologia Europaea, volumes 27-29, page 148:
- The minority groups show no strong tendency towards ethnization; the formation of groups is hardly used as an instrument to gain a better position in the labor market, the housing market, or education, if at all.2013, Education for Democratic Citizenship, →ISBN, page 106:
- Derived terms
- re-ethnization, de-ethnization
- Related terms
- ethnize