Immigrant Business: The Economic, Political and Social Environment (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship)

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. 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 Edited By Jan Rath. 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 (p. 199-223) And Index. In many large cities of the Western world, the 1970s and 1980s witnessed an increase in the production of clothing in small-scale sweat-shops, often run by immigrants.