ghetto

Noun

• a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

• any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
  • the relative security of the gay ghetto
    
  • no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool
    

• formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live
  • the Warsaw ghetto