Genocide extends ethnic cleansing by exterminating rather than just removing a group

Evidence

Genocide is a neologism that combines the Greek term genos (race or people) with the Latin - caedo (act of killing). Raphael Lemkin - a mid-twentieth century Polish lawyer and activist credited with coining the term - defined it as the intentional ‘destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group’ (Lemkin 2008, 79). In practical terms, genocide is closely related to ethnic cleans­ ing and ethnic expulsions (Garrity and Mylonas 2026), which entail the deliberate removal of one or more ethnic groups from a territory to homogenise the territory’s population. Genocide takes ethnic cleansing one step further by eliminating the group through policies of extermination (Bell-Fialkoff 1992; Naimark 2001; Straus 2006). — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 16

Categorization

• DEFINE: Delimits genocide against the adjacent categories of ethnic cleansing and expulsion — useful terminological scaffolding.
• XREF: connects to: Genocide differs from ethnic cleansing in requiring intent to destroy the group — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 82; Ethnic cleansing is a contemporary euphemism for genocide policies; Ethnoracial purging differs from ethnic cleansing by expulsion over extermination (+1 more)

Related

• Genocide differs from ethnic cleansing in requiring intent to destroy the group (similarity 0.92)
• Genocide was coined by Lemkin to name an old practice given modern form (similarity 0.84)
• Genocide scholars resist widening the term to include killings lacking clear group-destruction intent. (similarity 0.84)
• Lemkin coined ‘genocide’ from Greek and Latin roots in 1944 (similarity 0.83)
• Genocide targets a group as an entity, not individuals (similarity 0.80)
• Genocide law depends on reified bounded groups that postmodern theory unsettles (similarity 0.80)
• Genocide’s legal definition includes preventing procreation of a targeted group (similarity 0.79)
• Genocide is both an old practice and a hallmark of high modernity (similarity 0.79)
• Persecution separates victims and begins massacres short of outright genocide (similarity 0.79)
• Nazi ethnic cleansing radicalized earlier nationalist population policies into genocide (similarity 0.78)
• Calls to preserve ‘genocide’ meaning can erase its political dimensions (similarity 0.78)
• The term extermination reflects killers’ belief victims are not fully human (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Genocide differs from ethnic cleansing in requiring intent to destroy the group #qualifies (0.85) — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 82
• Ethnic cleansing is a contemporary euphemism for genocide policies #contradicts (0.75)
• Ethnoracial purging differs from ethnic cleansing by expulsion over extermination #qualifies (0.70)