English

Alternative forms

• ethnisation

Noun

ethnization ‎(uncountable)

1. The act or process of making a group into, or of becoming as a group, an ethnicity or distinct people.
   • 1998, Ethnologia Europaea, volumes 27-29, page 148:

     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.

   • 2013, Education for Democratic Citizenship (ISBN 1136470247), page 106

     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.

Derived terms

• re-ethnization, de-ethnization

Related terms

• ethnize

Quotations

• 1991, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Stephen Sharot, Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society (ISBN 0521392292), page 222:

  They expected the Middle Eastern "ethnics” to "modernize" and to adopt their ”non-ethnic” culture, but it was precisely this stance that contributed to the ethnization of Middle Eastern Israelis and their perception of the Ashkenazi establishment as a factor to be resisted.

• 2011, Nikolai Genov, Global Trends and Regional Development (ISBN 1136633464):

  The concept of reflexive ethnization (Bös 1997; Patterson 1983) can be used to decompose different aspects of inequality. From a systematic point ofview, reflexive ethnization is a special form of ethnogenesis.

• 1998, Georg Stauth, Islam, Motor Or Challenge of Modernity (ISBN 3825832767), page 195

  The foreign-led ethnization of Islamic culture reached new heights in Bosnia. During the war, an Islamic-sounding name entered in the bearer's passport was often all it took for him to be executed on the spot by an opposing party.