Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Culture, Capital, and Ethnic Networks

Buch | Softcover

396 Seiten

2004
Transaction Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7658-0589-8 (ISBN)

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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, now in paperback, 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 upsurge in self-employment, the contributors to this volume 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. The Los Angeles riots of the nineties indicated the volatility of the 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 the entrepreneurial efforts and tensions in the garment industry in Los Angeles, Paris, and Berlin; Koreans' enterprise and identities in Los Angeles and Japan; and U.S. immigration policies. The result is a genuinely global methodology.

Parminder Bhachu

1: Introduction: California Immigrants in World Perspective; 2: Migration Networks and Immigrant Entrepreneurship; 3: Asian and Latino Immigrants in the Los Angeles Garment Industry: An Exploration of the Relationship between Capitalism and Racial Oppression; 4: Immigrants in Garment Production in Paris and in Berlin; 5: Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Israel, Canada, and California; 6: Immigrant Entrepreneurs in France; 7: Asian Indians in Southern California: Occupations and Ethnicity; 8: Twice and Direct Migrant Sikhs: Caste, Class, and Identity in Pre- and Post-1984 Britain; 9: Korean Immigrants in Los Angeles 1; 10: Koreans in Japan and the United States: Attitudes toward Achievement and Authority; 11: Subethnicity: Armenians in Los Angeles; 12: Armenians in Moscow; 13: Critical Issues in the U.S. Legal Immigration Reform Debate; 14: New Zealand’s Immigration Policies and Immigration Act (1987): Comparisons with the United States of America; 15: Mexican Immigrants in California Today

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2004
Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	521 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	0-7658-0589-8 / 0765805898
ISBN-13	978-0-7658-0589-8 / 9780765805898
Zustand	Neuware