Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the Americas
Drivers, Challenges and Local Economic Impact
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the Americas
Drivers, Challenges and Local Economic Impact
About this book
Migration in the Americas continues unabated. Seeking to improve understanding of the complexity of this phenomenon, this book presents different approaches that are at the root of an immigrant-entrepreneur's decision-making and the implementation of entrepreneurial activity in North and South America.
The cases presented provide a knowledge base upon which policymakers, government agencies, and the like can draw, providing a basis for comparison for other countries regarding how and why immigrants decide to become entrepreneurs, the challenges they face, and the contributions they make. In this sense, the book presents an overview of immigrant entrepreneurship in the Americas. The studies presented include the cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds behind the reasons for starting a business in the host community, as well as the factors that influence the choice of business area. Furthermore, it explores how this type of entrepreneur contributes to local and sustainable and economic development and will deepen the understanding of immigrants' triggers for emigrating and for engaging in entrepreneurship in the host society. Based on the studies presented, it will offer guidelines regarding policies to support immigrant entrepreneurs, as well as to outline future research avenues.
This book will be an invaluable resource to researchers and scholars in the fields of immigration, immigrant entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial culture, and economic development.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction and overview
- 1 Live, work, and pray in the New York metropolitan area: Brazilian immigrants and ethnic-religious entrepreneurship
- 2 Religious system, challenges and support for immigrant entrepreneurship: “The immigration of Brazilians in the city of Lowell, MA, USA”
- 3 Entrepreneurship of immigrants beyond ethnic enclaves: Determining factors
- 4 Migration factors that influence local entrepreneurship in Baja California, as a Mexican border state with the state of California in the United States of America
- 5 The entrepreneur migrant woman and her emancipatory (im)possibilities in the Brazilian context
- 6 Wine entrepreneurs: Italian immigrants and the wine-making industry in Southern Brazil
- 7 Identity and agency of small businesses founded by German immigrants’ descendants in Santa Catarina State, South of Brazil
- 8 Migrant ethnic groups: South-south entrepreneurs in Antofagasta (Chile)
- 9 South-south migration and entrepreneurship: The case of Chile
- Conclusion: Immigration and entrepreneurship in the Americas: Drivers, challenges and local economic impact
- Index