Kloosterman, van der Leun and Rath assert they conceptualised the “mixed embeddedness” hypothesis to overcome the shortcomings characteristic of earlier theoretical models of immigrant business enterprise. This article assesses the relevance of this theoretical perspective to explaining immigrant entrepreneurship in a specific host setting with reference to research that spans a number of economic periods and includes both genders and a number of generations. It is argued that, while the “mixed embeddedness” explanation gives a more comprehensive explanation than previous models, it nonetheless fails to explain the wide‐ranging inter‐ethnic variation in entrepreneurial concentration observed among immigrant groups around the world. It contends that the reasons for this are the model’s lack of historical perspective and focus on the lower end of the market. It also demonstrates how the study of immigrant enterprise is advanced by incorporating the agency of individuals into the explanatory process.

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Aanpassen and invisibility: being Dutch in post-war Australia This article reflects on the mass influx of Dutch migrants into Australia after the Second World War from the vantage point of the now rapidly ageing Dutch. It compares their experience to that of their children who are also fast approaching retirement age. It locates Dutch Australians' adaptive strategies within the context of the historic, socio-economic and cultural expectations generated at the point of departure by both the relinquishing and receiving societies. It shows the strategies as further influenced by ethnicity, generation, gender, social class and religion. Its central thesis contends the compelling and sometimes dissimilar imperatives driving the Australian and Dutch governments post-war emigration/immigration programs coalesced to fashion 'aanpassen and invisibility', the strategies now viewed as the 'hallmark' of Dutch resettlement in Australia.

Migrants all over the world have left multiple traces in different countries, and this cultural heritage is of growing interest to researchers and to the migrant communities themselves. Cultural heritage institutions, however, have dwindling funds and resources to meet the demand for the heritage of immigrant communities to be protected. In this article we propose that the key to bridging this gap is to be found in new possibilities that are opened up if resources are linked to enable digital exploration of archival records and collections. In particular, we focus on the value of building a composite and distributed resource around migrants' life courses. If this approach is used and dispersed collections held by heritage institutions can be linked, migrant communities can have access to detailed information about their families and researchers to a wealth of data-serial and qualitative-for sophisticated and innovative research. Not only does the scattered data become more usable and manageable, it becomes more visible and coherent; patterns can be discovered that were not apparent before. We use the Dutch-Australian collaborative project "Migrant: Mobilities and Connection" as an example and case study of this life course-centered methodology and propose that this may develop into a migration heritage template for migrants worldwide.Global migration is one of the defining characteristics of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. As Alexander Betts noted in 2015, "There is greater human mobility than ever before. In 1970, there were 70 million international migrants; today there are well over 200 million" (Betts 2015). With globalization, the opportunity and