ethnization
The act or process of making a group into, or of becoming as a group, an ethnicity or distinct people.
Noun
- 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...
- 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. -...
Origin
From ethno- + -ization.