Immigrant businesses : the economic, political and social environment / edited by Jan Rath.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rath, Jan, 1956-

Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (Economic and Social Research Council)

Series:

Migration, minorities, and citizenship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority business enterprises--Congresses.

Minority business enterprises.

Immigrants--Employment--Congresses.

Immigrants.

Informal sector (Economics)--Congresses.

Informal sector (Economics).

Minority business enterprises--Finance--Congresses.

Ethnic groups--Economic aspects--Congresses.

Ethnic groups.

Entrepreneurship--Congresses.

Entrepreneurship.

Minority business enterprises--Finance.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 231 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press in association with Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, 2000.

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.

Notes:

Selected papers from a workshop, held in Sept. 1995 at the University of Amsterdam, complemented with a number of papers by other authors who were invited to contribute.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-223) and index.

ISBN:

0312227752

0333683145

OCLC:

41991404