settlerism

noun4

1. •
   An ideology extolling the virtue of bettering oneself by becoming a settler in undeveloped lands.
2. •
   (informal, disapproving) The replacement of native populations with nonnative populations.
3. •
   (historical) Group identification among settlers (as opposed to indigenous people or imported slaves), coupled with an ideology of freedom and social participation that applies exclusively to members of that group.

   • Class contradictions in the U.S., in time, came to be defined largely in the context of race and settlerism. — 2004
4. •
   The process of converting desolate lands into settlements.