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'''Social apartheid''' refers to de facto segregation on the basis of class or economic status in which an [[underclass]] develops which is separated from the rest of the population.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article376528.ece Charles Murray. The advantages of social apartheid. US experience shows Britain what to do with its underclass – get it off the streets. The Sunday Times. April 3, 2005.]</ref> |
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==Latin America== |
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The term has become common in [[Latin America]] 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 [[Venezuela]] where the supporters of [[Hugo Chavez]] identify social apartheid as a reality which the wealthy try to maintain<ref>[http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1279 Paul-Emile Dupret. Help Venezuela Break Down Social Apartheid. Le Soir. Tuesday, Sep 14, 2004.]</ref> and [[Brazil]], 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>[http://www.logosjournal.com/lowy.htm Michael Lowy. The Long March of Brazil's Labor Party. Brazil: A Country Marked by Social Apartheid. Logos, vol.2 no.2, Spring 2003]</ref> and where inhabitants of the poor slums are subjected to violence.<ref>[http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~t656_web/peace/Articles_Spring_2004/Pfannl_Emilia_Poverty_violence_Brazil_slums.htm Emilia R. Pfannl. The Other War Zone: Poverty and Violence in the Slums of Brazil. Damocles (Harvard Graduate School of Education), April 5, 2004 Edition.]</ref> |
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==Europe== |
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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>[http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=COL20051122&articleId=1311 Michel Collon. Racism and Social Apartheid. French Suburbs: 10 Questions. Global Research, November 22, 2005.]</ref> and as a cause of rioting and other violence. |
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==South Africa== |
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In [[South Africa]], the term "social apartheid" has been used to describe persistent post-[[apartheid]] 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>[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-65654982.html Kate Stanley. Call of the conscience; As circumstances focus Western eyes on Africa, American visitors find the place less a mystery than they expected. Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), October 1, 2000.]</ref><ref>[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-4551499.html Andrew Kopkind. A reporter's notebook; facing South Africa. The Nation: November 22, 1986.]</ref> "Social apartheid" has been cited as a factor in the composition of [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]] in South Africa.<ref>[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Villanova%20Digital%20Collection/Falvey%20Scholars/2004/2004-00006.xml Rochelle R. Davidson. HIV/AIDS in South Africa: A Rhetorical and Social Apartheid. Villanova University (2004).]</ref> |
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==References== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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==See Also== |
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* [[urban apartheid]] |
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* [[Multiculturalism]] |
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[[Category:Apartheid]] |
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[[Category:Apartheid in South Africa]] |
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[[Category:South African society]] |
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[[Category:Brazilian society]] |
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[[Category:Venezuelan society]] |
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[[Category:French society]] |
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[[Category:New Zealand society]] |
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[[Category:Poverty]] |
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[[Category:Political science terms]] |
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