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In the past few years, a considerable number of immigrants have established their own businesses. In doing so, they have contributed in many ways to the economic development of American and European metropolitan areas. Some businesses have been incorporated into the mainstream, while others have stayed on the economic fringes and got engaged in the informal economy. The starting point of this book is that a proper understanding of these businesses is served by focusing on the embeddedness of immigrant businesses in their economic, politico-institutional and social environments from a multi-disciplinary perspective rather than confining the attention to ethnic-cultural or economic sociological aspects only.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
JAN RATH is Senior Researcher and Project Manager in the interfaculty Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) at the University of Amsterdam. He received his MA degree in cultural anthropology and urban studies and a PhD from Utrecht University. He is the founding and managing editor of the Dutch quarterly journal Migrantenstudies. He is author of numerous articles, book chapters and reports on the sociology, politics and economics of post-migratory processes, amongst others Minorisation: The Social Construction of 'Ethnic Minorities', and co-editor of the book Immigrant Self-Employment in the Netherlands. He and Robert Kloosterman are co-founders of an International Network on Immigrant Entrepreneurship.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Immigrant Businesses
Book Subtitle: The Economic, Political and Social Environment
Editors: Jan Rath
Series Title: Migration, Minorities and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403905338
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-68314-9Published: 01 February 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-0533-8Published: 01 February 2000
Series ISSN: 2947-2911
Series E-ISSN: 2947-292X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 231
Topics: Ethnicity Studies, Migration, Organization