Sentences with phrase «ethnic enclaves in»

Since many of these organizations are ethnic specific, operating within ethnic enclaves in large metropolitan centers, they manipulate subcultures impenetrable to traditional law enforcement.

They are more and more becoming a separatist elite, retreating to ethnic enclaves in a few big cities.

My parents, hoping to find acceptance for themselves and their children as Americans, gave up much of the Germanness that had defined them in the secure ethnic enclaves in which they grew up.

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Major responsibility for the change in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, Levine and Harmon claim, rests largely on the political, banking, and real estate establishment of Boston that decided to channel Boston's growing black population into Jewish neighborhoods rather than to scatter them in Irish, Italian, and other ethnic enclaves.

Not only do such actions represent a radical departure from past times in America, when government refused to legitimate ethnic - group rights and claims, but they also encourage a polarization rather than unification of our diverse population — a trend that can result only in the eventual creation of de jure ethnic and racial geographic enclaves and political parties, with the appointment and election of individuals mandated along racial, religious and ethnic lines.

They settled in an ethnic enclave of the town's Yemenite community, amid some of the saddest slums in England.

According to the analysis of Census data by the the advocacy and housing organization, Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE), the Asian population in New York City is growing rapidly and dispersing beyond historical ethnic enclaves.

Thus, the deciding votes in the majority - minority district may end up getting cast in the white ethnic enclaves of Sheepshead Bay, Mill Basin and Bergen Beach, where County remains relatively strong.

A number of refugee communities, (e.g. in Saint Louis and Great Detroit and in Wisconsin), have migrated to Rust Belt cities where they have filled inexpensive neighborhoods largely deserted by the original residents and revitalized by them as ethnic enclaves.

But Bratton said again this morning that that the unit was not investigative, and instead focused on where members of ethnic enclaves reside in the city's five boroughs.

Even more than The Departed, Good Will Hunting and Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone feels, looks and sounds authentic in its depiction of Boston's ethnic, working class enclaves.

A fine script by director John Gray, and strong performances from an ensemble cast that includesStephen Lang, Karen Allen, and Peter Riegert add up to this moving coming of age story set in the ethnic enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn in the 1970's.

There are also some emerging differences in their social network support, their relationships and involvement with ethnic enclave neighborhoods, and their household budgeting.

More than 20 percent of the city's residents are foreign born, and one can pass through half a dozen ethnic enclaves — Japanese, Indian, Middle Eastern — in as many blocks.

France had the mandate for the area known as Greater Syria, and in 1920 formed the State of Greater Lebanon as one of the ethnic enclaves within Syria.

While large urban centers have often served as pockets for ethnic enclaves (think Chinatown) increasingly, ethnoburbs which host concentrations of ethnicities in American suburbs, are becoming more prevalent.

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Home to a dynamic set of neighborhoods and ethnic enclaves, it's hard to visit this borough and not fall in love with its lively and eclectic atmosphere.

Shophouses, many of them colourfully painted, can still be found in various ethnic enclaves such as Little India, Chinatown and Kampong Glam (Arab Quarter).