Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Venturing Abroad in the Age of Globalization

ISBN-13: 9781859736395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 352 str.

Robert Kloosterman; Dr Jan Rath; Alan Russell

Opis

Immigrant entrepreneurship rose dramatically in the last decade of the twentieth century and has had a huge impact on urban life. Through a comparative study of international "advanced economies," this book explores the impact of immigrant business, drawing on in-depth case studies from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the United States and South Africa. How important is the institutional framework of each country in determining the extent and incidence of immigrant entrepreneurship? What role do welfare systems play in immigration and how do they compare and contrast in different countries? In what ways do immigrants use their own resources, make use of existing ones, and create new ones? Paying specific attention to the particularities of each country, it provides an up-to-date review of theoretical debates that have developed rapidly in recent years.

Recenzje

'The significance and complexity of the comparative agenda is one of the volume's strongest statements. I recommend it for researchers who want to design studies on immigrant economic integration addressing the broadest possible set of issues, relevant to the widest audience.' American Journal of Sociology'The book represents a valuable contribution to the existing body of literature. The authors accomplish what they set out to do, i.e. explore the questions that lie behind numbers.'Regional Studies 'Although scholarly interest in immigrant entrepreneurs has expanded mightily in the last generation, and now includes an impressive literature, the literature has barely kept pace with the expansion of immigrant entrepreneurship in the worlds immigrant reception countries, including the eleven countries compared in this volume. Scholars have long understood in principle that divergent structures shape divergent entrepreneurship. To this end, they have already compared cities wi

O autorze

Robert Kloosterman Professor of Economic Geography,University of Amsterdam Jan Rath Associate Professor and Co-Director, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam