A part of a city, not necessarily a slum area, occupied by a minority group (a gilded ghetto is simply a more affluent ghetto). Lifestyles within the ghetto differ distinctly from those of the ‘host’ population and the prejudices of the host confine the sub-group to particular locations. D. Wilson (2007) describes ghettos in terms of deteriorating levels of poverty, increasing demonization in popular discourse, and their complex relationship with the prison system. ‘Any proposition of a particular community in isolation, defined in racial, religious, or regional terms…shielded from its powers by fixed boundaries, is destined to end up as a kind of ghetto’ (M. Hardt and P. Negri 2000). ‘To counter the negative effects of the so-called ghetto life, organizations created alternative spaces that they argued would encourage more appropriate social conduct and would persuade homosexuals to be more supportive of these organizations’ political agenda.’ (Nash (2006) Canad. Geogr./Géogr. canad. 50, 1).