TY - JOUR
T1 - New migrant enterprise
T2 - novelty or historical continuity?
AU - Jones, Trevor
AU - Edwards, Paul
AU - Kiselinchev, P
AU - Muchenje, L
PY - 2012/11/1
Y1 - 2012/11/1
N2 - How far does new migrant enterprise represent a departure from traditional ethnic minority entrepreneurship in the UK? This paper draws on a qualitative survey of 165 new migrants in the UK to address this question. New migrants to the UK are emblematic of ‘super-diversity’, which some believe heralds a significant departure from previous forms of migration. The extent to which this process has a substantive impact on the kinds of businesses that new migrants run is rarely considered. It is argued that migrant business, ‘new’ and ‘old’, is structurally disadvantaged and underpinned by mixed embeddedness. This can be applied to demonstrate that new migrants are essentially subject to the same structural handicaps as their forerunners.
AB - How far does new migrant enterprise represent a departure from traditional ethnic minority entrepreneurship in the UK? This paper draws on a qualitative survey of 165 new migrants in the UK to address this question. New migrants to the UK are emblematic of ‘super-diversity’, which some believe heralds a significant departure from previous forms of migration. The extent to which this process has a substantive impact on the kinds of businesses that new migrants run is rarely considered. It is argued that migrant business, ‘new’ and ‘old’, is structurally disadvantaged and underpinned by mixed embeddedness. This can be applied to demonstrate that new migrants are essentially subject to the same structural handicaps as their forerunners.
UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042098012439109
U2 - 10.1177/0042098012439109
DO - 10.1177/0042098012439109
M3 - Article
SN - 0042-0980
VL - 49
SP - 3159
EP - 3176
JO - Urban Studies
JF - Urban Studies
IS - 14
ER -