Sternberg argues that it is important to clearly distinguish between colonization and colonialism as concepts. For Shafir and Peled, "colonization, namely territorial dispossession and the settlement of immigrant populations," cannot happen without colonialism and "the means of violence of a colonial metropole." In contrast, Sternberg considers classical definitions of colonization as broad enough to include cases which did not require the dispossession of the native population.
Sternberg argues that it is important to clearly distinguish between colonization and colonialism as concepts For Shafir and Peled "colonization namely territorial dispossession and the settlement of immigrant populations," cannot happen without colonialism and "the means of violence of a colonial metropole." In contrast Sternberg considers c,lassical definitions of colonization a.s broad enough to include cases which did not require the dispossession of the native population