Jan Rath
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3734367 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jan Rath |
| NOMBRES | Jan |
| APELLIDO | Rath |
| FIRMA | RATH J |
| AFILIACIONES | Department of Sociology University of Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 355 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 9 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Stigmatizing Street Vendors and Market Traders
This article contributes to the debate on the stigmatization of street vendors and market traders by illuminating the moralizing and disciplinary state interventions that city officials used in Amsterdam to direct the social and spatial behaviors of this group in the period of the “civilizing offensive” at the beginning of the twentieth century. By using archive materials, this article empirically demonstrates that these interventions were justif…
Regulation of migrant entrepreneurship
We are struck by a curious paradox: the flourishing discourse on migrant entrepreneurship is replete with references to the regulatory environment; yet the precise ways in which regulations exert influence is rarely spelt out. This task is all the more urgent because policymakers are alighting on the fact that migrants often turn to self‐employment to make their way in destination societies. Yet, the extent to which regulations – comprising laws …
The ambiguity of diversity
As a malleable concept with a relatively positive resonance, ‘diversity’ proves to be a useful tool to legitimise a range of policy strategies, goals and outcomes. In the Netherlands, the concept has gained a central role in the implementation of social mixing policies targeting so-called problematic neighbourhoods by introducing a better ‘mixed’ or ‘balanced’ population. The discursive celebration of such a mixed neighbourhood, however, often ca…
The coffee scene in Glasgow's West End
Advancing the Frontiers in Ethnic Entrepreneurship Studies
The proliferation of ethnic entrepreneurship varies not only from country to country, but also from sector to sector, from city to city, and – within cities – from neighbourhood to neighbourhood. In evaluating the interrelationship of ethnic entrepreneurship and urban governance, we discuss three specific points: ethnic variety and varieties; spatial levels in opportunities and constraints; and urban governance and institutions. In analysing the …
Chinatown 2.0
Right in Amsterdam’s picturesque Canal Zone, on and around Zeedijk, Chinese entrepreneurs have carved out a presence in what seems like the local Chinatown. The businessmen have been targeting Asian and non-Asian customers by offering products that – to an extent – can be associated with Asia, China in particular. Following Hackworth and Rekers. [(2005). “Ethnic Packaging and Gentrification. The Case of Four Neighborhoods in Toronto.” Urban Affai…
Promoting Ethnic Entrepreneurship in European Cities
An increasing number of immigrants have become entrepreneurial and many governments expect or hope that the ongoing rise of ethnic entrepreneurship will contribute significantly to the integration of immigrants, to their upward mobility, and to the economic development of the city of residence. In this article we explore the rules, regulations and policy interventions that shape self‐employment trajectories in general and those of immigrant ethni…
Urban markets and diversity
In this paper we advocate the study of local street markets to explore fundamental issues about the relationship between economy and society. This relationship evolves over time and we believe that it has been recast in an age of increasing cultural diversity and neo-liberal state regulatory structures. In street markets we can see how diversity and the nature of economic transactions become mutually constitutive. We argue that cultural diversity…
New York and Amsterdam
An Introduction to Immigrant Incorporation Studies
The combination of increased migration, new technologies, and growing wealth have changed the face of Europe: today, one in ten Europeans was born outside the continent. The processes for incorporating these immigrants vary widely from city to city and nation to nation, and even from one institution within a city to another. This collection offers a comprehensive overview of the state of scholarship on all those approaches and their effectiveness…
An Introduction to International Migration Studies
Selling Ethnic Neighborhoods
The chapter discusses the process of commodification of Chinese ethnic neighbourhoods in the cities of Antwerp and Brussels for consumption purposes. In this process different actors, including the Chinese, local government and the media play a significant role
Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation
The Netherlands
The Netherlands has de facto always been a country of immigration. Yet, it does not consider itself as such. One out of five inhabitants in the Netherland has an immigrant background or has been born in a family in which one of the parents is an immigrant. Yet, large numbers of indigenous Dutch find it hard to acknowledge this fact. Likewise, the reception of newcomers has been rather awkward and sometimes in contradiction with the widely celebra…
Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City
1. Tourism, Migration and Place Advantage in the Global Cultural Economy C. Michael Hall and Jan Rath Part 1: Immigrant Entrepreneurs 2. Making the New Economy: Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Emerging Transnational Networks of International Education and Tourism in Seoul and Vancouver Min-Jung Kwak and Daniel Hiebert 3. Urban Boosterism, Tourism and Ethnic Minority Enterprise in Birmingham Trevor Jones and Monder Ram 4. Ethnic Precincts as Contradic…
Immigrant Entrepreneurs
No large city is complete without a bustling array of culturally diverse businesses. Immigrant entrepreneurship rose dramatically in the last decade of the twentieth century and has, inevitably, had a huge impact on urban life. Not only has immigrant business revitalized derelict shopping streets, but it has also introduced 'exotic' products and fostered new forms of social cohesion. In spite of this, we rarely consider how migrants made the trek…
Unravelling the Rag Trade
The garment industry is one of the world’s largest industries, yet there are few sustained examinations of its importance to the global economy and the very vital role that immigrant entrepreneurship has played. Focusing on the garment industry in seven world cities -Paris, London, Birmingham, Amsterdam, New York, Miami and Los Angeles- this book tackles the complex relationship between the development of immigrant entrepreneurship and the shift …
Western Europe and its Islam
Immigration from North Africa, Asia and elsewhere meant a large influx of Islam into Western Europe. In each country, Muslims organized in various ways and established numerous institutions such as mosques, cemeteries, halâl butchers, schools, broadcasting organizations, and political parties, and slowly but surely the outlines of Muslim communities begun to emerge. The development of those communities is not a matter of Muslims only, but the pro…
Immigrant entrepreneurs in advanced economies
This paper introduces the JEMS special issue on immigrant entrepreneurship and mixed embeddedness. The special issue has grown out of an EC-funded programme of networking research entitled 'Working on the Fringes: Immigrant Businesses, Economic Integration and Informal Practices'. Our opening paper provides a contextual overview for the case-study papers which follow. We pay particular attention to the mixed-embeddedness thesis and especially foc…
Immigrant businesses
List of Tables and Figures Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Immigrant Businesses and Their Economic, Politico-institutional, and Social Environment J.Rath Regionalization in a Globalizing World: The Emergence of Clothing Sweatshops in the European Union S.Raes Market Potential as a Decisive Influence on the Performance of Ethnic Minority Business T.Jones, G.Barrett & D.McEvoy Location Matters: Ethnic Entrepreneurs and the Spatial C…
Immigrant Businesses
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 m
Mixed Embeddedness
Immigrants from non-industrialized countries have become part and parcel of the social fabric of many advanced urban economies, including those in the Netherlands. A significant number of these migrants opt for setting up shop themselves. Lacking access to large financial resources and mostly lacking in educational qualifications, they are funnelled towards the lower end of the opportunity structure of these urban economies. To survive in these c…
Across the border
"In this article, we [explore] the relationship between informal economic activities and recent immigrants in the Netherlands.... We will give an overview of important trends on both the demand and the supply side of entrepreneurial activities in the informal economy. We argue that the potential for informal economic activities by immigrants in large Dutch cities has been growing since the early 1980s. After having outlined this analytical framew…
The Establishment of Islamic Institutions in a De‐pillarizing Society
Pays-Bas
En 1982, le marocain Hassan Bel Ghazi publiait un livre intitulé Deux cultures : exploitation et opportunisme. C'était pratiquement la première fois qu'un «hôte étranger» écrivait un ouvrage de ce genre aux Pays-Bas. Bel Ghazi y affirmait, entre autres, que «les migrants, qui (...) représentent une force vitale pour l'économie du pays, sont totalement absents en matière politique». Il reprochait aux Hollandais leur paternalisme et leur ingérence,…
Mixed Embeddedness
Immigrants from non-industrialized countries have become part and parcel of the social fabric of many advanced urban economies, including those in the Netherlands. A significant number of these migrants opt for setting up shop themselves. Lacking access to large financial resources and mostly lacking in educational qualifications, they are funnelled towards the lower end of the opportunity structure of these urban economies. To survive in these c…
Urban markets and diversity
In this paper we advocate the study of local street markets to explore fundamental issues about the relationship between economy and society. This relationship evolves over time and we believe that it has been recast in an age of increasing cultural diversity and neo-liberal state regulatory structures. In street markets we can see how diversity and the nature of economic transactions become mutually constitutive. We argue that cultural diversity…
Promoting Ethnic Entrepreneurship in European Cities
An increasing number of immigrants have become entrepreneurial and many governments expect or hope that the ongoing rise of ethnic entrepreneurship will contribute significantly to the integration of immigrants, to their upward mobility, and to the economic development of the city of residence. In this article we explore the rules, regulations and policy interventions that shape self‐employment trajectories in general and those of immigrant ethni…
Across the border
"In this article, we [explore] the relationship between informal economic activities and recent immigrants in the Netherlands.... We will give an overview of important trends on both the demand and the supply side of entrepreneurial activities in the informal economy. We argue that the potential for informal economic activities by immigrants in large Dutch cities has been growing since the early 1980s. After having outlined this analytical framew…
Chinatown 2.0
Right in Amsterdam’s picturesque Canal Zone, on and around Zeedijk, Chinese entrepreneurs have carved out a presence in what seems like the local Chinatown. The businessmen have been targeting Asian and non-Asian customers by offering products that – to an extent – can be associated with Asia, China in particular. Following Hackworth and Rekers. [(2005). “Ethnic Packaging and Gentrification. The Case of Four Neighborhoods in Toronto.” Urban Affai…
Regulation of migrant entrepreneurship
We are struck by a curious paradox: the flourishing discourse on migrant entrepreneurship is replete with references to the regulatory environment; yet the precise ways in which regulations exert influence is rarely spelt out. This task is all the more urgent because policymakers are alighting on the fact that migrants often turn to self‐employment to make their way in destination societies. Yet, the extent to which regulations – comprising laws …
The ambiguity of diversity
As a malleable concept with a relatively positive resonance, ‘diversity’ proves to be a useful tool to legitimise a range of policy strategies, goals and outcomes. In the Netherlands, the concept has gained a central role in the implementation of social mixing policies targeting so-called problematic neighbourhoods by introducing a better ‘mixed’ or ‘balanced’ population. The discursive celebration of such a mixed neighbourhood, however, often ca…
The Netherlands
The Netherlands has de facto always been a country of immigration. Yet, it does not consider itself as such. One out of five inhabitants in the Netherland has an immigrant background or has been born in a family in which one of the parents is an immigrant. Yet, large numbers of indigenous Dutch find it hard to acknowledge this fact. Likewise, the reception of newcomers has been rather awkward and sometimes in contradiction with the widely celebra…
Political action of immigrants in the Netherlands
The political action of immigrant ethnic minorities in the Netherlands is examined in an attempt to assess the relevance of the neo‐Marxist theory of the British sociologists Miles and Phizacklea, who identify three processes of political action: the black unity process, the class unity process and the ethnic organisation process. On the basis of available evidence from the Dutch case it is argued that in present circumstances neither black unity…
Advancing the Frontiers in Ethnic Entrepreneurship Studies
The proliferation of ethnic entrepreneurship varies not only from country to country, but also from sector to sector, from city to city, and – within cities – from neighbourhood to neighbourhood. In evaluating the interrelationship of ethnic entrepreneurship and urban governance, we discuss three specific points: ethnic variety and varieties; spatial levels in opportunities and constraints; and urban governance and institutions. In analysing the …
The Establishment of Islamic Institutions in a De‐pillarizing Society
The recognition and institutionalisation of Islam in Belgium, Great Britain and the Netherlands
In this article the authors argue that the historically specific laws and regulations with regard to religious groups in Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands provoke different political reactions to the presence of Muslims. These laws and regulations also affect — to some extent — the ideological representation of Muslims. The reverse process of laws and regulations being changed by politico‐ideological mobilisation also takes place, but the pict…
Stigmatizing Street Vendors and Market Traders
This article contributes to the debate on the stigmatization of street vendors and market traders by illuminating the moralizing and disciplinary state interventions that city officials used in Amsterdam to direct the social and spatial behaviors of this group in the period of the “civilizing offensive” at the beginning of the twentieth century. By using archive materials, this article empirically demonstrates that these interventions were justif…
La participation des immigrés aux élections locales aux Pays-Bas
La participation des immigrés aux élections locales aux Pays-Bas. Jan RATH En 1985, les Pays-Bas accordèrent aux immigrants non-Néerlandais le droit de voter et de se présenter comme candidat aux élections locales, dans la perspective d'une intégration au système politique. Cet article analyse le processus qui a abouti à cette reconnaissance. Pratiquement tous les partis politiques ont appuyé les différents textes de lois, y compris celui qui pro…
Immigration and the Formation of Minority Groups. The Dutch Experience 1945-1975
European Immigration Policy. A Comparative Study
Black Politics and Urban Crisis in Britain
Ethnic Politics in Australia
Political action of immigrants in the Netherlands
The political action of immigrant ethnic minorities in the Netherlands is examined in an attempt to assess the relevance of the neo‐Marxist theory of the British sociologists Miles and Phizacklea, who identify three processes of political action: the black unity process, the class unity process and the ethnic organisation process. On the basis of available evidence from the Dutch case it is argued that in present circumstances neither black unity…
La participation des immigrés aux élections locales aux Pays-Bas
La participation des immigrés aux élections locales aux Pays-Bas. Jan RATH En 1985, les Pays-Bas accordèrent aux immigrants non-Néerlandais le droit de voter et de se présenter comme candidat aux élections locales, dans la perspective d'une intégration au système politique. Cet article analyse le processus qui a abouti à cette reconnaissance. Pratiquement tous les partis politiques ont appuyé les différents textes de lois, y compris celui qui pro…
The New Islamic Presence in Western Europe
Pays-Bas
En 1982, le marocain Hassan Bel Ghazi publiait un livre intitulé Deux cultures : exploitation et opportunisme. C'était pratiquement la première fois qu'un «hôte étranger» écrivait un ouvrage de ce genre aux Pays-Bas. Bel Ghazi y affirmait, entre autres, que «les migrants, qui (...) représentent une force vitale pour l'économie du pays, sont totalement absents en matière politique». Il reprochait aux Hollandais leur paternalisme et leur ingérence,…
The recognition and institutionalisation of Islam in Belgium, Great Britain and the Netherlands
In this article the authors argue that the historically specific laws and regulations with regard to religious groups in Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands provoke different political reactions to the presence of Muslims. These laws and regulations also affect — to some extent — the ideological representation of Muslims. The reverse process of laws and regulations being changed by politico‐ideological mobilisation also takes place, but the pict…
The Establishment of Islamic Institutions in a De‐pillarizing Society
Across the border
"In this article, we [explore] the relationship between informal economic activities and recent immigrants in the Netherlands.... We will give an overview of important trends on both the demand and the supply side of entrepreneurial activities in the informal economy. We argue that the potential for informal economic activities by immigrants in large Dutch cities has been growing since the early 1980s. After having outlined this analytical framew…
Mixed Embeddedness
Immigrants from non-industrialized countries have become part and parcel of the social fabric of many advanced urban economies, including those in the Netherlands. A significant number of these migrants opt for setting up shop themselves. Lacking access to large financial resources and mostly lacking in educational qualifications, they are funnelled towards the lower end of the opportunity structure of these urban economies. To survive in these c…
Immigrant businesses
List of Tables and Figures Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Immigrant Businesses and Their Economic, Politico-institutional, and Social Environment J.Rath Regionalization in a Globalizing World: The Emergence of Clothing Sweatshops in the European Union S.Raes Market Potential as a Decisive Influence on the Performance of Ethnic Minority Business T.Jones, G.Barrett & D.McEvoy Location Matters: Ethnic Entrepreneurs and the Spatial C…
Immigrant Businesses
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 m
Western Europe and its Islam
Immigration from North Africa, Asia and elsewhere meant a large influx of Islam into Western Europe. In each country, Muslims organized in various ways and established numerous institutions such as mosques, cemeteries, halâl butchers, schools, broadcasting organizations, and political parties, and slowly but surely the outlines of Muslim communities begun to emerge. The development of those communities is not a matter of Muslims only, but the pro…
Immigrant entrepreneurs in advanced economies
This paper introduces the JEMS special issue on immigrant entrepreneurship and mixed embeddedness. The special issue has grown out of an EC-funded programme of networking research entitled 'Working on the Fringes: Immigrant Businesses, Economic Integration and Informal Practices'. Our opening paper provides a contextual overview for the case-study papers which follow. We pay particular attention to the mixed-embeddedness thesis and especially foc…
Unravelling the Rag Trade
The garment industry is one of the world’s largest industries, yet there are few sustained examinations of its importance to the global economy and the very vital role that immigrant entrepreneurship has played. Focusing on the garment industry in seven world cities -Paris, London, Birmingham, Amsterdam, New York, Miami and Los Angeles- this book tackles the complex relationship between the development of immigrant entrepreneurship and the shift …
Immigrant Entrepreneurs
No large city is complete without a bustling array of culturally diverse businesses. Immigrant entrepreneurship rose dramatically in the last decade of the twentieth century and has, inevitably, had a huge impact on urban life. Not only has immigrant business revitalized derelict shopping streets, but it has also introduced 'exotic' products and fostered new forms of social cohesion. In spite of this, we rarely consider how migrants made the trek…
Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City
1. Tourism, Migration and Place Advantage in the Global Cultural Economy C. Michael Hall and Jan Rath Part 1: Immigrant Entrepreneurs 2. Making the New Economy: Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Emerging Transnational Networks of International Education and Tourism in Seoul and Vancouver Min-Jung Kwak and Daniel Hiebert 3. Urban Boosterism, Tourism and Ethnic Minority Enterprise in Birmingham Trevor Jones and Monder Ram 4. Ethnic Precincts as Contradic…
The Netherlands
The Netherlands has de facto always been a country of immigration. Yet, it does not consider itself as such. One out of five inhabitants in the Netherland has an immigrant background or has been born in a family in which one of the parents is an immigrant. Yet, large numbers of indigenous Dutch find it hard to acknowledge this fact. Likewise, the reception of newcomers has been rather awkward and sometimes in contradiction with the widely celebra…
Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation
Selling Ethnic Neighborhoods
The chapter discusses the process of commodification of Chinese ethnic neighbourhoods in the cities of Antwerp and Brussels for consumption purposes. In this process different actors, including the Chinese, local government and the media play a significant role
An Introduction to International Migration Studies
New York and Amsterdam
An Introduction to Immigrant Incorporation Studies
The combination of increased migration, new technologies, and growing wealth have changed the face of Europe: today, one in ten Europeans was born outside the continent. The processes for incorporating these immigrants vary widely from city to city and nation to nation, and even from one institution within a city to another. This collection offers a comprehensive overview of the state of scholarship on all those approaches and their effectiveness…
Political science (28 obras) · Sociology (24 obras) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (19 obras) · Economics (18 obras) · Immigration (18 obras) · Geography (17 obras) · Law (17 obras) · Ethnic group (12 obras) · Economic geography (11 obras) · Law (10 obras)