Segregated Populations

Full Title or Meme

Segregation has focused on explicit laws that enforce differences on different peoples based on their identity. Here the focus is on their lack of identifiers.

Context

For this paper we consider any kind of segregation that take place in a society and the impact that has on the segregated part that is less well off; examples include:

• The Roma in Bulgaria
• The Travelers in Ireland
• The Indigenous people in Vancouver BC
• The Uighurs in China
• The Chinese in New York, in this case we look back a few years to when Chinatown was at its peak
• The homeless in Seattle
• The poor communities in Los Angeles
• The Māori in New Zealand
• The Syrian refuges in Europe
• The prisoners or slaves wherever they may be.

For this paper we recognize that these segregated people may have very strong identities, but what they lack is very strong identifiers. if we include wealth as a part of one's identity, then we can say that nearly all segregation is fixated on identity.

Problem

There are many differences in these situations but focusing on the need for identifiers to get access to many social benefits we find lots of common problems.

• . The majority of the population has benefits that they only grudgingly allow the minority segregated population to access.
• . The common approach to solving the problem in the past has focused on homogenization, that is on forcing one population to forgo their identity.
• . Here we assume that forcing people to change their identity to get identification is pure evil.