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'''Social apartheid''' refers to de facto segregation on the basis of class or economic status in which an ] develops which is separated from the rest of the population.<ref></ref> | |||
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The term has become common in ] in particular in societies where the polarization between rich and poor has become pronounced and has been identified in public policy as a problem that needs to be overcome, such as in ] where the supporters of ] identify social apartheid as a reality which the wealthy try to maintain<ref></ref> and ], where the term was coined to describe a situation where wealthy neighbourhoods are protected from the general population by walls, electric barbed wire and private security guards<ref></ref> and where inhabitants of the poor slums are subjected to violence.<ref></ref> | |||
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The term social apartheid has also been used to explain and describe the ghettoization of Muslim immigrants to Europe in impoverished suburbs<ref></ref> and as a cause of rioting and other violence. | |||
==South Africa== | |||
In ], the term "social apartheid" has been used to describe persistent post-] forms of exclusion and de facto segregation which exist based on class but which have a racial component due to the fact that the poor are almost entirely African.<ref></ref><ref></ref> "Social apartheid" has been cited as a factor in the composition of ]/] in South Africa.<ref></ref> | |||
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