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African immigrants in South Africa: Job takers or job creators?

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2010
During the last decade African immigrants have been met with and exposed to severe forms of hostility towards their presence in this country. A significant number of these migrants have successfully applied their entrepreneurial flair in establishing ...
Vivence Kalitanyi
doaj   +1 more source

A Qualitative Case Study of Experience of Xenophobia Among Francophone African Informal Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Pretoria

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management
Francophone African immigrants in South Africa find it difficult to find formal employment because of exclusive laws and the challenge of language barriers.
Gallous Atabongwoung, Mosa Nkoko
doaj   +1 more source

The influence of social capital on risk-taking propensity. A study on Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper studies the influence of social capital on immigrant entrepreneurs’ risk-taking propensity. The paper has a particular focus on Chinese immigrants and also explores the effects of the so-called “guanxi”, a ...
Rodríguez Gutiérrez, María José   +1 more
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Knowledge Economy Immigration: A Priority for U.S. Growth Policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Offers economic and political arguments for facilitating immigration of highly educated, skilled workers as a way to support long-term knowledge-based economic growth.
Robert E. Litan, Tim Kane
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Transformation Teams Leading the Hispanic‐Serving Institutions Movement at HSI Community Colleges

open access: yesNew Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Department of Education defunded discretionary grant programs for enrollment‐based minority‐serving institutions (MSIs) on September 10, 2025, yet Hispanic‐serving institutions (HSIs) still exist and must continue to adapt to their growing population of Latine/x students.
Gina Ann Garcia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Neighborhood Revitalization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Commissioned by The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc., this study examines the role of immigrant entrepreneurs in the revitalization of three Boston neighborhoods.
Michael Liu   +2 more
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Workers in Leisure and Hospitality Businesses: Massachusetts and New England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This report examines the role and impact of immigrant entrepreneurs and workers on Leisure and Hospitality businesses in New England, particularly Massachusetts. A significant portion of state economies in New England, especially in Massachusetts, relies
C. Eduardo Siqueira   +5 more
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Ethnic minority business in the uk: a review of research and policy development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Part of a series produced to support a ESRC/CRE/DTI/emda workshop on ethnic minority entrepreneurship. This paper comprised a review of research literature on ethnic minority enterprise and an overview of UK policy ...
Jones, T, Ram, M
core   +1 more source

Towards a Conceptual Integration of Collective Victimization Beliefs and Their Variation Within and Across Contexts: A Q Methodology Study in Five Communities

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although social psychological research on how people understand collective victimization often examines comparisons between groups’ suffering, studies on related concepts (e.g., collective trauma) suggest numerous other relevant beliefs. The present article aimed to integrate diverse collective victimization beliefs and contribute to their ...
Johanna Ray Vollhardt   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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