ethnization

The act or process of making a group into, or of becoming as a group, an ethnicity or distinct people.

Noun

  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...
    • 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.

Forms

ethnisation

Related

ethnize

Derived

re-ethnization de-ethnization