Immigrant Business : The Economic, Political and Social Environment

by Rath, Jan

• ISBN13: 9780312227753
• ISBN10: 0312227752
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-04-22
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Jan Rath is Senior Researcher and Project Manager in the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: Immigrant Businesses and their Economic, Politico-Institutional and Social Environment	p. 1
Regionalisation in a Globalising World: The Emergence of Clothing Sweatshops in the European Union	p. 20
Market Potential as a Decisive Influence on the Performance of Ethnic Minority Business	p. 37
Location Matters: Ethnic Entrepreneurs and the Spatial Context	p. 54
Small Firm Financial Contracting and Immigrant Entrepreneurship	p. 70
Immigrant Entrepreneurship and the Institutional Context: A Theoretical Exploration	p. 90
State Regulatory Regimes and Immigrants' Informal Economic Activity	p. 107
The Economic Theory of Ethnic Conflict: A Critique and Reformulation	p. 124
The Social Capital of Ethnic Entrepreneurs and their Business Success	p. 142
Globalisation and Migration Networks	p. 162
International Migration, Undocumented Immigrants and Immigrant Entrepreneurship	p. 182
References	p. 199
Index	p. 224
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