Ethnoburb

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A suburban residential and business area with a notable cluster of a particular ethnic minority population. US

    "Immigrant elders leave a familiar home, some without electricity or running water, for a multigenerational home in communities like Fremont that demographers call ethnoburbs."

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"Immigrant elders leave a familiar home, some without electricity or running water, for a multigenerational home in communities like Fremont that demographers call ethnoburbs."

Etymology

From ethno- + burb, coined in 1997 by Dr. Wei Li.

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ethnic minority

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