Immigration and entrepreneurship culture, capital, and ethnic networks
Many nations invite foreigners to work within their borders, but few welcome them. Those countries that do receive a torrent of immigrants, create pressures that analysts expect to intensify as population growth and social unrest mount in the less developed countries of the world. Immigration and En...
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| Sprache: | English |
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New Brunswick u.a.
Transaction Publ.
1993
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| Zusammenfassung: | Many nations invite foreigners to work within their borders, but few welcome them. Those countries that do receive a torrent of immigrants, create pressures that analysts expect to intensify as population growth and social unrest mount in the less developed countries of the world. Immigration and Entrepreneurship offers a comparative analysis of worldwide immigration issues while focusing more specifically on the emerging influence of entrepreneurship as a potent factor in the economic and social integration of immigrants. In linking the common immigrant and settler experiences with the recent upsurge in self-employment, the authors use California as their base of comparison. The state has both a huge and varied immigrant population and an entrepreneurial economy that has facilitated the formation of immigrant-owned firms. Recent rioting in Los Angeles indicates the volatility of the new mix Aided by ethnic and familial networks, such firms have served as a route of economic advancement. Immigration and Entrepreneurship offers a comparative perspective unique in the literature of immigration by broaching the topic from both global and local perspectives. Whereas most studies examine the experience of a single group or groups in a particular destination economy, this volume emphasizes variations in the way different nations receive immigrants as causes of differences in immigrant behavior. Among the innovative themes discussed by a range of international scholars are some of special contemporary interest, such as the entrepreneurial efforts and also tensions in the garment industry in Los Angeles, Paris, and Berlin; Koreans' enterprise and identities in Los Angeles and Japan; South Asian diaspora and enterprise cultures in Southern California and Britain, and U.S. immigration policies. The result is a genuinely global methodology Immigration and Entrepreneurship will be of interest to sociologists, economists, anthropologists, political scientists, and urban planners |
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| Beschreibung: | XIV, 381 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 1560000708 |