Internal ethnicity in the ethnic economy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2145771
AutoresIvan Light (0000-0001-9832-3008, University of California, Los Angeles), Georges Sabagh (University of California, Los Angeles), Mehdi Bozorgmehr (Social Science Research Council), Claudia Der‐martirosian (0000-0001-6841-198X, University of California, Los Angeles)
Ano1993
Volume16
Fascículo4
Páginas581-597
Data de publicação1993-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.1993.9993798
OpenAlexW1972731263
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas40
Referências citadas28

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 assumption is unreliable. Ethnic boundaries need not coincide with those of nationality origin when internal ethnicity exists. To test this hypothesis, we utilize survey data collected from a sample of Iranians in Los Angeles. Because this national-origin immigrant group contains four ethno-religious subgroups (Armenians, Bahais, Jews and Muslims), the Iranians in Los Angeles operated four distinctive ethnic economies, not one. Each ethno-religious subgroup had its own ethnic economy, and these separate economies were only weakly tied to an encompassing Iranian ethnic economy

Demographic economics · Economics · Economy · Ethnic group · Ethnic history · Immigration · Nationality · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Taxation and Compliance Studies