Ethnicity, opportunity, and upward mobility

Currently, among the approximately 20,000 ethnic Koreans living in Argentina, an estimated 80% are engaged in the garment industry. Within the theoretical frameworks of immigrant entrepreneurship, this research examines why and how Korean Argentines have been continuously concentrated in the clothing industry from the beginning of Korean immigration in the 1960s to the present. Based on ethnographic research conducted in Argentina and on archival and documentary research, this study illustrates how Korean immigrant community in Argentina has settled and achieved upward mobility in the face of complex and fluctuating social and economic circumstances, combining opportunities with strategies and resources to create comparative advantages and benefits. By combining historical contextualisation with theories on immigrant entrepreneurs that had previously only been tested on short-term study periods, findings further suggest that scholars should pay closer attention to historical shifts and accounts in analysing longer-term periods of ethnic business

Clothing · Clothing industry · Demographic economics · Economic geography · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Ethnic community · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Geography · Immigration · Political science · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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