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ethnic segregation  

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  • Ethnic segregation is the enforced or voluntary residential separation of two or more groups on the basis of cultural identity. Usually understood at the local scale among neighborhoods within a city, ethnic residential segregation also occurs at other geographic scales. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Ethnic Segregation]

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