Meanings of social cleansing in English

There is a real danger of social cleansing happening.

But what is meant by social cleansing, and what will it mean for the city?

How can we expect social cohesion when we're allowing the systematic social cleansing of our communities?

But many of those on the frontline of change feel they are the victims of social cleansing.

Boris Johnson weighed in too, warning against "Kosovo-style social cleansing" of poorer people in London.

They have accused the investors of " social cleansing".

We're feeling the effects of social cleansing ourselves, our dark little corner of London's King's Cross has become a glamorous destination hub.

Johnson subsequently issued a statement about his earlier reference to " social cleansing" by claiming he had been being quoted out of context.

But protesters said they were being treated as "second-class citizens" and "members of the underclass" and accused Manchester city council of social cleansing.

The very existence of somewhere like the Wentworth Estate is predicated on exactly a kind of social cleansing that Reignwood seem to be undertaking now.

Labour senator Kevin Humphreys has described as " social cleansing" plans to provide no social housing in Kennedy Wilson's new apartment scheme in Dublin's docklands.

A woman who feeds more than 300 people a night at a Dublin city soup kitchen says the current homelessness crisis feels like " social cleansing".

Last week around 50 students from MMU staged a protest to call for an end to the " social cleansing of Oxford Road" by the university.