New migrant businesses and their workers

Developing, but Not Transforming, the Ethnic Economy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2147136
AutoresPaul Edwards (0000-0003-4220-7408), M Ram (0000-0003-1901-6654, University of Birmingham, autor de correspondencia), Trevor Jones (0000-0002-5992-545X, University of Birmingham), Sabina Doldor (University of Birmingham)
Año2016
Volumen39
Número9
Páginas1587-1617
Fecha de publicación2016-07-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2015.1116702
OpenAlexW2277642344
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas28
Referencias citadas31

Studies of businesses established by migrants to the UK traditionally stressed coethnicrelationships as economic resources. More recent work identifies a newethnic economy characterized by migrants' common experiences, withethnicity playing less of a role. The present study complements this newerperspective through investigation of the experiences of forty-nine businessowners and sixty of their workers in the West Midlands. Economicrelationships were central to the operation of migrant firms, and a minority offirms escaped from sectors traditionally dominated by migrant firms. Yetsubstantial continuity was also evident, including exclusion from themainstream on ethnic lines and relations with workers characterized byinformality. Migrant business is evolving but it retains many of its features;this pattern can be explained by combining the mixed embeddedness theoryof the enterprise with labour process analysis

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Embeddedness · Ethnic group · Mainstream · Migrant workers · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy