Overcoming the mobility bias in transnational entrepreneurship

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4262851
AutoresEkaterina Vorobeva (0000-0003-4474-6384, The Research Centre for East European Studies The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences The University of Bremen Bremen Germany, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume23
Fascículo4
Páginas884-900
Data de publicação2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12424
OpenAlexW4311057128
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas43

The current article contributes to the debates on immobility in migration studies. More specifically, it aims to show and challenge mobility bias in transnational entrepreneurship; the relevant scholarship appears to overconcentrate on immigrants as major driving forces of cross-border business relations while ignoring the contributions of nonmigrant populations. Based on the qualitative data collected from Central Asian migrant entrepreneurs in Russia, this research dispels the myth about the inertness of nonmigrants by demonstrating their utmost importance in establishing and sustaining transnational enterprises. Therefore, transnational entrepreneurship should be regarded as the result of joint efforts of both mobile and sedentary actors. The presented evidence suggests that mobility and immobility are integrally intertwined and mutually constitutive. This study calls for a more balanced and nuanced vision of how transnationalism occurs

Economic geography · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Immigration · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Transnationalism · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy