Sentences with phrase «for ethnic enclaves»

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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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.

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.

For a significant part of their lives, they operate within an ethnic enclave.

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.

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.