Jean Rath
Biographic Data
| ID | 95314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean Rath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Rath |
| SIGNATURE | RATH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1961-2763 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 379 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Defining and Measuring Democratic Norms
If scholars and pundits are right, the erosion of norms in the United States and abroad poses a significant danger to democracy. Understanding what exactly norms are, what makes them democratic, and how best to measure them is thus essential for generating and evaluating explanations of how such norms weaken and collapse. Our article addresses each of these key elements. On the conceptual front, we argue for more precision in defining norms and m…
Stigmatizing Street Vendors and Market Traders: The Case of Amsterdam from a Historical Perspective
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: The strained conjunction of laws, policies and practices
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 …
Multifocality and opportunity structure: Towards a mixed embeddedness model for transnational migrant entrepreneurship
This article addresses transnational migrant entrepreneurship, which refers to migrants involved in cross-border entrepreneurial activities. Previous models and concepts in migrant entrepreneurship studies have not fully succeeded in recognising the role played by differential groups and places in the pursuit of opportunities by transnational migrant entrepreneurs. This is due to a tendency to focus on the country of residence as well as on the i…
New year message from the editors
Progress of migration scholarship over 60 years of International Migration
A posting on Facebook earlier this year – showcasing the 60th anniversary logo of International Migration – elicited one viewer to exclaim: ‘Congrats on 60 years of migration scholarship!’ Such kind words suggest that the Journal has been a self-evident outlet and a place for the exchange of scholarly knowledge on issues related to international migration and population diversity. Most scholars today have a clear picture of what that entails: it …
The ambiguity of diversity: Management of ethnic and class transitions in a gentrifying local shopping street
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: On the class practices of the new urban middle classes
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 …
Coffee people in Tehran, Glasgow and Amsterdam
Despite the diversity of consumption and class practices of the new urban middle classes within and between societies, they share some qualities. Focusing on the lifestyles and mentalities of regulars of specialty coffee bars in Tehran, Glasgow and Amsterdam, this study explores common characteristics of this group. Our ethnography suggests that through their everyday consumption practices, coffee people share a set of ethical dispositions and cu…
Chinatown 2.0: The difficult flowering of an ethnically themed shopping area
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: Sometimes Ambitious, Mostly Absent, Rarely Addressing Structural Features
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: Towards a Research Agenda
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…
An Introduction to Immigrant Incorporation Studies: European Perspectives
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…
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
Autoethnographic Layering: Recollections, Family Tales, and Dreams
This article uses a tripartite layered text to explore narrative inheritance, the storied experience of self and family. The author produces an autoethnography that places together partial memories, the stories told by parents, and half-remembered dreams. She queries taken-for-granted meanings by positioning uncertain scripts of and for the self in ways that leave invitational lacunae within and between the textual layers. In honoring the interpl…
The Netherlands: A Reluctant Country of Immigration
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…
Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America – Jennifer Lee
Unravelling the Rag Trade: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Seven World Cities
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…
Representing Feminist Educational Research with/in the Postmodern: Stories of rape crisis training
This article is 'about' the types of research practices we might invent as feminists with/in the postmodern, and how these might enable us to represent and know empirically generated materials differently. It uses evocative ethnographic writing techniques to 'show' rather than 'tell' how the nature of our research conceptions and practices may change, particularly our notions of 'giving voice'. Much of the article takes the form of a multilinear …
Immigrant entrepreneurs in advanced economies: Mixed embeddedness further explored
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…
Representing Feminist Educational Research with/in the Postmodern: Stories of rape crisis training
This article is 'about' the types of research practices we might invent as feminists with/in the postmodern, and how these might enable us to represent and know empirically generated materials differently. It uses evocative ethnographic writing techniques to 'show' rather than 'tell' how the nature of our research conceptions and practices may change, particularly our notions of 'giving voice'. Much of the article takes the form of a multilinear …
Ethnographic Alternatives
Immigrant businesses: The economic, political, and social environment
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…
Mixed Embeddedness: (In)formal Economic Activities and Immigrant Businesses in the Netherlands
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: Towards a Research Agenda
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: Sometimes Ambitious, Mostly Absent, Rarely Addressing Structural Features
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: Immigrants' economic opportunities, social capital and informal business activities
"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: The difficult flowering of an ethnically themed shopping area
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…
Coffee people in Tehran, Glasgow and Amsterdam
Despite the diversity of consumption and class practices of the new urban middle classes within and between societies, they share some qualities. Focusing on the lifestyles and mentalities of regulars of specialty coffee bars in Tehran, Glasgow and Amsterdam, this study explores common characteristics of this group. Our ethnography suggests that through their everyday consumption practices, coffee people share a set of ethical dispositions and cu…
Regulation of migrant entrepreneurship: The strained conjunction of laws, policies and practices
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: Management of ethnic and class transitions in a gentrifying local shopping street
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…
Multifocality and opportunity structure: Towards a mixed embeddedness model for transnational migrant entrepreneurship
This article addresses transnational migrant entrepreneurship, which refers to migrants involved in cross-border entrepreneurial activities. Previous models and concepts in migrant entrepreneurship studies have not fully succeeded in recognising the role played by differential groups and places in the pursuit of opportunities by transnational migrant entrepreneurs. This is due to a tendency to focus on the country of residence as well as on the i…
The Netherlands: A Reluctant Country of Immigration
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: Class or Ethnicity
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…
Ethnicity and Emancipation
Political Participation of Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands
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 …
Autoethnographic Layering: Recollections, Family Tales, and Dreams
This article uses a tripartite layered text to explore narrative inheritance, the storied experience of self and family. The author produces an autoethnography that places together partial memories, the stories told by parents, and half-remembered dreams. She queries taken-for-granted meanings by positioning uncertain scripts of and for the self in ways that leave invitational lacunae within and between the textual layers. In honoring the interpl…
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: The Case of Amsterdam from a Historical Perspective
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…
Representing Feminist Educational Research with/in the Postmodern: Stories of rape crisis training
This article is 'about' the types of research practices we might invent as feminists with/in the postmodern, and how these might enable us to represent and know empirically generated materials differently. It uses evocative ethnographic writing techniques to 'show' rather than 'tell' how the nature of our research conceptions and practices may change, particularly our notions of 'giving voice'. Much of the article takes the form of a multilinear …
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…
Political Participation of Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands
In a relatively short time the Netherlands has developed into a multiethnic society with consequences for all sectors of the Dutch society, including politics. An important part of the ethnic minorities does not have the Dutch nationality and are consequently excluded from the franchise. However, Dutch laws have been changed in such a way that non-Dutch residents will get the municipal vote soon. The immigrants with Dutch nationality already make…
Political Participation of Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands
Political Participation of Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands
In a relatively short time the Netherlands has developed into a multiethnic society with consequences for all sectors of the Dutch society, including politics. An important part of the ethnic minorities does not have the Dutch nationality and are consequently excluded from the franchise. However, Dutch laws have been changed in such a way that non-Dutch residents will get the municipal vote soon. The immigrants with Dutch nationality already make…
Immigration and the Formation of Minority Groups. The Dutch Experience 1945-1975
European Immigration Policy. A Comparative Study
Ethnicity and Emancipation
Black Politics and Urban Crisis in Britain
Ethnic Politics in Australia
Political action of immigrants in the Netherlands: Class or Ethnicity
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: La Participation Politique Des Immigrants
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: Immigrants' economic opportunities, social capital and informal business activities
"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: (In)formal Economic Activities and Immigrant Businesses in the Netherlands
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: The economic, political, and social environment
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
Outsiders' Business: A Critical Review of Research on Immigrant Entrepreneurship
In the Netherlands, a significant proportion of the immigrant population has established itself as self-employed entrepreneurs in the past few years, a process which has caught the attention of res
Outsiders’ Business: A Critical Review of Research on Immigrant Entrepreneurship
In the Netherlands, a significant proportion of the immigrant population has established itself as self-employed entrepreneurs in the past few years, a process which has caught the attention of researchers. This article critically examines the output of these researchers. It is concluded that although research in the Netherlands has brought to light a number of interesting facts, it has not contributed a great deal to our understanding of immigra…
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…
Representing Feminist Educational Research with/in the Postmodern: Stories of rape crisis training
This article is 'about' the types of research practices we might invent as feminists with/in the postmodern, and how these might enable us to represent and know empirically generated materials differently. It uses evocative ethnographic writing techniques to 'show' rather than 'tell' how the nature of our research conceptions and practices may change, particularly our notions of 'giving voice'. Much of the article takes the form of a multilinear …
Immigrant entrepreneurs in advanced economies: Mixed embeddedness further explored
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…
Representing Feminist Educational Research with/in the Postmodern: Stories of rape crisis training
This article is 'about' the types of research practices we might invent as feminists with/in the postmodern, and how these might enable us to represent and know empirically generated materials differently. It uses evocative ethnographic writing techniques to 'show' rather than 'tell' how the nature of our research conceptions and practices may change, particularly our notions of 'giving voice'. Much of the article takes the form of a multilinear …
Ethnographic Alternatives
Unravelling the Rag Trade: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Seven World Cities
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 …
Political science (36 works) · Sociology (35 works) · Law (26 works) · Economics (21 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (21 works) · Law (19 works) · Geography (18 works) · Immigration (18 works) · Ethnic group (15 works) · Politics (13 works)