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Internal ethnicity in the ethnic economy

Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1993
Abstract Internal ethnicity refers to ethnic subgroups within an immigrant group. An ‘ethnic economy’ includes the self‐employed and their co‐ethnic workers. Although most research treats the boundaries of ‘ethnic economy’ and its variant, the ‘ethnic enclave economy’, as though they were coterminous with those of national‐origin immigrant groups, this
Ivan Light, Georges Sabagh, Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Claudia Der‐Martirosian   +3 more
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Ethnic Economy

2020
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Ethnic Diversity and Local Economies

South African Journal of Economics, 2021
AbstractThe effect on economic outcomes of ethnic diversity remains debatable. Some view ethnic diversity as a deterrent of development, whereas others consider it a source of innovation and productivity, which can be translated into a higher level of development. This study aims to shed further light on the issue.
Yonatan Dinku, Dereje Regasa
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What is ethnic in an ethnic economy?

International Review of Sociology, 2010
This article examines critically the relationship between ethnicity and entrepreneurship in the sociology of immigrant economies. It argues that what is ethnic in an ethnic economy has often been confusingly conceptualised and that several factors now call for re-assessing the ethnic nature of immigrants' business activities.
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Beyond the Ethnic Enclave Economy

Social Problems, 1994
The terms “ethnic economy” and “ethnic enclave economy” designate an immigrant or minority business and employment sector that coexists with the general economy. Users often treat these terms as synonymous. In fact, they are not. The concept of ethnic enclave economy derives from the labor segmentation literature, whereas the concept of ethnic economy ...
Ivan Light
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The Political Economy of Ethnicity

2023
Abstract Under the political single-party regimes that prevailed in Africa in the course of the first three decades of independence (1960-1990), the failure of the postcolonial State complicated the difficult process of transforming and modernizing political institutions.
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Economy and Ethnicity in Transylvania

2018
This chapter discusses the most important social domain that is not organized along ethnic lines in Transylvania, namely the economy. The chapter aims to answer two general questions: First, to what extent is Romania’s democracy and economic institutional system able to capitalize on the potential assets stemming from ethnic diversity?
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THE ETHNIC OWNERSHIP ECONOMY

2004
The literature of ethnic ownership economies descends from middleman minority theory, a subject it continues to include. However, ethnic economy literature now more broadly addresses the economic independence of immigrants and ethnic minorities in general, not just of middleman minorities (Light & Bonacich, 1991, pp. xii–xiii).1 This expansion releases
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The Political Economy of Ethnic Change

American Journal of Sociology, 1974
An attempt is made to evaluate two theories of ethnic solidarity and change, one functionalist, the other reactive, in the light of quantitatime evidence concerning England and the Celtic fringe from 1885 to 1966. The conceptualization of ethnicity as a "primordial sentiment" has led to the expectation that class or functional cleavages should come to ...
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The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing

2017
In the wake of World War II the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, witnessing not only the expulsion of nearly three million German speakers, but also the influx of nearly two million resettlers. Yet mob violence and nationalist hatred were not the driving forces of ethnic cleansing; instead, greed, the search for power and property, and
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