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The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2019 A growing movement of foreign nationals is settling and starting up businesses in South Africa. Given this fact, there is a need to understand those factors influencing the human capital side of being an immigrant entrepreneur as a basis for coming up ...
Justice Muchineripi +2 more
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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States [PDF]
Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being
David A. Jaeger +2 more
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No. 67: Migrant Entrepreneurship, Collective Violence and Xenophobia in South Africa [PDF]
, 2014 The remarkable growth of informal migrant entrepreneurship in South Africa since 1990 would have been much lauded had it not been for the striking detail that the actors in question are seen as “foreigners” or “outsiders”.
Crush, Jonathan, Ramachandran, Sujata
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Integrative Framework for Understanding (Im)mobility Across Geographical Contexts
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we present an integrative analytical framework for understanding (im)mobility across different geographical and thematic contexts. We contend that previous literature on (im)mobility has underplayed the psychosocial mechanisms underlying perceived capabilities and aspiration formation.
Aneta Stoker +5 more
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Studia i Materiały, 2018 This paper aims to contribute to the debate and knowledge of immigrant entrepreneurship in Germany by analyzing a central research question (derived mainly from Dana (2007), Tung (2008), de Haas (2010), Riddle et al. (2010; 2011) Jones et al. (2011), Elo
Ben Collins Vershiyi Kwaven +2 more
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Peace, Prosperity, and Pro-Growth Entrepreneurship [PDF]
Support for entrepreneurship is widely seen as a mechanism to facilitate prosperity and peace in a growing number of post-conflict states. In this paper I critically evaluate this view.
Naude, Wim
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For the Benefit of All: Strategic Recommendations to Enhance the State's Role in the Integration of Immigrants in Illinois (Joint Executive Summary, Year Two) [PDF]
, 2008 On November 19, 2005, before thousands of immigrants attending the Immigrant Justice Convention hosted by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) in Chicago, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signed the landmark New Americans ...
Christine Rhee +7 more
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Startup Act for the States [PDF]
, 2012 Proposes state policy options for promoting entrepreneurial growth and the "job-creation engines" of start-ups by increasing the supply of entrepreneurs, facilitating the launch and growth of new ventures, and fostering a culture of ...
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Diasporic Connections Revisited: Asian Women's Entrepreneurship in Context
Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This reflection revisits Hardill and Raghuram’s groundbreaking 1998 study of Asian women entrepreneurs, which challenged homogeneous views of ‘Asian business’ by showing how gender, class, ethnicity and migration history intersected to shape distinctive entrepreneurial strategies. Drawing on my own experience in a migrant family business
Monder Ram
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Emerging Opportunities: Giving and Participation by Silicon Valley Asian American Communities [PDF]
, 2012 Based on interviews, examines experiences, motivations, priorities, and values with regard to philanthropy among Asian Americans in the Valley, including how the entrepreneurial culture shapes approaches to philanthropy, social change, and ...
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