ethnoburb
English
editEtymology
editFrom ethno- + burb, coined in 1997 by Dr. Wei Li.
Noun
editethnoburb (plural ethnoburbs)
- (US) A suburban residential and business area with a notable cluster of a particular ethnic minority population.
- 2009 August 31, Patricia Leigh Brown, “Invisible Immigrants, Old and Left With ‘Nobody to Talk To’”, in New York Times[1]:
- Immigrant elders leave a familiar home, some without electricity or running water, for a multigenerational home in communities like Fremont that demographers call ethnoburbs.