Definition of "ghettoization"

ghettoization

noun
countable and uncountable, plural ghettoizations
1. The process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area.
  Quotations
  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.
  1988 January 15, Ben Joravsky, “A strip mall in Edgewater: class warfare, or small-time tiff?”, in Chicago Reader‎
2. The process of ghettoizing (a group): the segregation/isolation of a group and placement of that group into a figurative or literal position of little power.