ghetto

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an area of a city, especially a very poor area, where people of a particular race or religion live closely together and apart from other people:

As a child she lived in one of New York's poorest ghettos.

to live in ghetto conditions

in the past, an area of a city where Jews were made to live

a part of society or group that is in some way divided from the main part:

Brought up in what he describes as "a middle class ghetto", he imagined that all people were as privileged as he was.

a very poor area of a city in which people of the same race or religion live, or a part of a society or group that is in some way set apart