Sentence examples for ethnic settlements from inspiring English sources

The first Chinatowns sprang up on the West Coast and were, at the start, much like ethnic settlements founded by European immigrant groups.

To be able to achieve this objective in the urban areas, focus should be directed at identifying social network groups, which may also correspond to ethnic settlements and other mutual community organisations.

Most of Ukraine's large Polish minority was resettled in Poland after World War II as part of a Soviet plan to have ethnic settlement match territorial boundaries.

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler saw this task as critical to the safeguarding of important agricultural areas and Volksdeutsche (ethnic German) settlements in the Syrmia region to the north.

Baan Thatafang has now become one of the latest ethnic minority settlements to be identified by local NGOs as being at threat from Thailand's sprawling business in the trafficking of desperate people.

The process of populating the province with European peasant families continued until the 1940s, varying in character but basically relying on an ethnic pattern of settlement.

As the sampling approach was based on a household's voluntary participation, the distribution of households across settlements and ethnic groups was not proportional to settlement and group size, respectively.

A7 Exodus from Nairobi Slum Thousands of residents fled ramshackle homes in the Kibera settlement after ethnic clashes prompted by poverty, overcrowding and a rent dispute took 12 lives this week.

It makes me sad that for the first time there will be a civilian government which will genuinely want to end conflict, reach a political settlement with ethnic groups, and bring lasting peace to the country, but that it won't have the constitutional power to actually do so.

The government has reached ceasefire agreements with the majority of armed groups, but there is no guarantee of an amicable political settlement with ethnic minorities on the question of autonomy.

An important issue was the colonisation of Polish territory: the organisation actively supported the nationalist policy of Germanisation through removal of Polish population and promoting settlement of ethnic Germans in the eastern regions of the German Empire.