Economic empathyin family entrepreneurship

Mexican-origin street vendor children and their parents

Bibliographic Data

ID2147252
AuthorsEmir Estrada (0009-0000-1350-5890, Arizona State University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume39
Issue9
Pages1657-1675
Publication date2016-07-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2016.1159709
OpenAlexW2312270137
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited35

Research on ethnic entrepreneurship has shown that children of immigrants may experience an economic advantage associated with their entrepreneurial parents' 'modes of incorporation' - the individual, group, and structural opportunities and characteristics that facilitate entrepreneurial participation and consequent economic progress. This ethnographic study examines street vending as a family enterprise and finds that the entrepreneurial, but nevertheless, disadvantaged Latino street vending parents experience economic stagnation. Child street vendors in this study experience compounded disadvantages stemming from their parents' social locations rooted in unauthorized status, informal work, and stigma, as working together shortens the distance between 'adulthood' and 'childhood'. Yet, street vending also sets the stage for children to develop economic empathy, a resiliency that results from experiencing their parent's position of oppression that helps prevent an authority shift in favour of the children

Business · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Empathy · Entrepreneurship · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Immigration · Oppression · Political science · Sociology · Stigma (botany · Vendor · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Marketing · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology