Immigration and Entrepreneurship Culture, Capital, and Ethnic Networks

Immigration and Entrepreneurship offers a comparative analysis of worldwide immigration issues while focusing more specifically on the emerging influence of entrepreneurship as a potent factor in the economic and social integration of immigrants. In linking the common immigrant and settler experiences with the upsurge in self-employment, the contributors to this volume use California as their base of comparison. The state has both a huge and varied immigrant population and an entrepreneurial economy that has facilitated the formation of immigrant-owned firms. The Los Angeles riots of the nineties indicated the volatility of the mix. Aided by ethnic and familial networks, such firms have served as a route of economic advancement.Light, Ivan is the author of 'Immigration and Entrepreneurship Culture, Capital, and Ethnic Networks', published 2004 under ISBN 9780765805898 and ISBN 0765805898.