Immigrants who have established their own businesses have contributed in many ways to the economic development of American and European metropolitan areas. The aim of this book is to understand why some of these businesses are incorporated into the mainstream while others stay on the economic fringes by focusing on their embeddedness in their economic, politico-institutional and social environments.
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"...an introduction to current theory on this important topic." --Enterprise & Society
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Jan Rath is Senior Researcher and Project Manager in the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
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In many large cities of the Western world, the 1970s and 1980s witnessed an increase in the production of clothing in small-scale sweat-shops, often run by immigrants. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
migration network theory, split labour market theory, financial management literature, immigrant entrepreneurship, middleman minority groups, unauthorised work, ethnic entrepreneurs, ethnic firms, ethnic minority business, immigrant firms, middleman minority theory, immigrant businesses, globalisation theory, bounded solidarity, much social capital, spillover migration, enforceable trust, migration networks, middleman minorities, undocumented immigrants, ethnic niche, native entrepreneurs, labour market opportunities, ethnic enterprises, clothing production Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In many large cities of the Western world, the 1970s and 1980s witnessed an increase in the production of clothing in small-scale sweat-shops, often run by immigrants. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
migration network theory, split labour market theory, financial management literature, immigrant entrepreneurship, middleman minority groups, unauthorised work, ethnic entrepreneurs, ethnic firms, ethnic minority business, immigrant firms, middleman minority theory, immigrant businesses, globalisation theory, bounded solidarity, much social capital, spillover migration, enforceable trust, migration networks, middleman minorities, undocumented immigrants, ethnic niche, native entrepreneurs, labour market opportunities, ethnic enterprises, clothing production Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Third World, New York, Los Angeles, Western Europe, East Asia, South Asian, Theoretical Exploration, Henk Flap, West European, Second World War, South Africa, Trevor Jones, American Jews New!
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- Ethnic Communities in Business: Strategies for economic survival (Comparative Ethnic and Race Relations) by Robin Ward on 6 pages
- Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective by Wayne Cornelius on 5 pages
- The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries by Alejandro Portes on 4 pages
- Immigration and Entrepreneurship: Culture, Capital, and Ethnic Networks by Ivan Light on 4 pages
- The Cambridge Survey of World Migration by Robin Cohen on 4 pages
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