This article reviews the debate on economic and social consequences of immigrant
entrepreneurship as well as theories advanced to explain different levels of self-employment …

In the past thirty years, many concepts and theories on ethnic entrepreneurship have been
developed, challenged, and revised to provide a fuller account of the phenomenon. This …

This study explores the relationship between migration and political'development'and asks
the question'how are migration movements and the expatriate communities they create …

We conceptualize motivations to emigrate as expressions of basic motivations in the context
of emigration. We propose three theoretically distinct motivations to emigrate: preservation …

In this fascinating study, based on extensive field work in the major Israeli communities of
New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris and Sydney, Steven J. Gold looks at their reasons for …

In recent years, research on immigration and ethnic communities has increasingly regarded
networks as essential sources of social organization and resource mobilization. Scholars …

The centrality of international migration as a process articulating major transformations of
contemporary societies offers an opportunity to make it the shared component of the …

In this paper we examine the identity negotiation processes of North African immigrant
women in France. Participants engaged in various forms of identity work, including selective …

This essay reviews existing theories of professional emigration as background to examine
the present situation. Classical theories of the brain drain neglected the possibility that …

In the context of the globalization of capital and the increased mobility of labor across
international borders, this article analyzes the experience of indigenous migrant workers …