In sociology, an ethnic enclave is a geographic area with high ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity, and economic activity. The term is usually used to refer to either a residential area or a workspace with a high concentration of ethnic firms. Their success and growth depends on self-sufficiency, and is coupled with economic prosperity.
Binondo, Manila, the world’s oldest Chinatown, is an example of an ethnic enclave.
India Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, one of 24 Indian ethnic enclaves in the New York City Metropolitan Area.
A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure. Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished than other areas of the city. Versions of such restricted areas have been found across the world, each with their own names, classifications, and groupings of people.
The main square of what was once the Venetian Ghetto in Italy (2013)
Jewish quarter of Caltagirone, Sicily
Demolition of the Jewish ghetto, Frankfurt, 1868
Children in the Ghetto and the Ice-Cream Man — postcard from 1909 in Maxwell Street, Chicago
