Chinese business migrants in Australia: Middle-class transnationalism and ‘dual embeddedness’

Colic‐Peisker, Val; Deng, Ling

doi:10.1177/1440783319836281

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“…Although the “entrepreneur” label is linked to investment and wealth accumulation goals, the structural conditions of both home and host countries show that the reasons for migration are beyond economic motives and aspirations. Some of the other motives are educational opportunities, safety, and transparency, validating professional careers and securing permanent residency rights (Colic‐Peisker & Denk, 2019). These motivations influence the immigrant's level of adjustment, integration and career success in the host country (Cerdin, Diné, & Brewster, 2014).…”

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A typology of Mexican highly educated immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States

Salamanca

Alcaraz

2022

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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This study develops a typology of highly educated Mexican immigrant entrepreneurs living in the United States (U.S.) based on their personal resources, motivations and social capital, and the U.S. institutional challenges they face. An exploratory qualitative analysis was conducted by examining 25 in‐depth interviews with Mexican immigrant entrepreneurs and opinion leaders in the United States. The results show that highly educated Mexican migrant entrepreneurs have different resources, motivations, and premigration conditions and face different institutional challenges. These differences give rise to six types of immigrants: “self‐made‐preneurs,” “expat‐preneurs,” “consolidated‐preneurs,” “stubborn millennials,” “runaway‐preneurs” and “avoider‐preneurs.” Previous studies have proposed a typology of high‐skilled migrants or have compared their profile with that of other migrants. However, a typology of highly educated migrant entrepreneurs or any systematic study on the unique institutional challenges they face does not exist.

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A typology of Mexican highly educated immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States

Salamanca

Alcaraz

2022

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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“…In addition, some immigrant entrepreneurs move to another country for a better life for themselves and their children. Therefore, they keep their dependence on their already profitable home country businesses, resulting in stronger dual embeddedness (Colic-Peisker and Deng, 2019).…”

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“…Some even claim that dual embeddedness may speed up the integration process (Ren and Liu, 2015). For example, Chinese immigrants in Singapore (Ren and Liu, 2015), Germany (Leung, 2003), the UK (Quan et al , 2019) and Australia (Colic-Peisker and Deng, 2019; Liang, 2019) have experienced dual embeddedness in their social and institutional contexts. In addition, some immigrant entrepreneurs move to another country for a better life for themselves and their children.…”

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Beyond embedded or not embedded: immigrant entrepreneurs’ embeddedness levels

Yetkin

Tunçalp

2021

JEC

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Purpose This paper aims to review the immigrant entrepreneurship literature to locate how researchers consider embeddedness to home and host countries beyond the “embedded” or “not” dichotomy. Design/methodology/approach The paper conducts a systematic literature review. The authors found 106 articles in the Scopus and Web of Science databases, using a structured search and selection protocol. Findings Few articles perceive embeddedness openly as a gradual phenomenon. However, articles in the review use different approaches for considering relative levels of embeddedness, such as depth of social ties. In addition, some articles take a dual perspective or make multi-contextual comparisons to acknowledge immigrant entrepreneurs’ embeddedness levels. These articles emphasise embeddedness as a gradual phenomenon to understand the complexity of immigrant entrepreneurs’ contextualisation better. Based on the review, the paper develops a model, considering embeddedness as an emergent result of the immigrants’ engagement with spaces, networks, markets and institutions of a given home or host context. It also accounts for the dynamic interaction between contextual factors as embeddedness levels change. Research limitations/implications The paper has located all relevant papers in the used databases. However, the systematic review protocol naturally limits its scope. Nevertheless, the developed model based on the review helps researchers develop a more comprehensive understanding of embeddedness and possibly ask novel questions. Social implications This paper can help policymakers improve their policies for the progressive social integration of immigrants, as it helps consider different embeddedness levels. Originality/value Researchers mainly consider individuals’ embeddedness as either “embedded” or “not.” However, we can also understand embeddedness at various levels, e.g. partial, increasing/decreasing and gradual. Significant changes occur in the embeddedness of individuals during immigration. Additionally, contextual relations intertwine immigrants’ entrepreneurial activity over time. The paper reviews embeddedness in the immigrant entrepreneurship literature, searching beyond the dichotomic use of embeddedness. Then, it develops a theoretical understanding of embeddedness levels.

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“…Rather, scholars have found that middling migrants move for a combination of reasons involving economics, lifestyle and even for self-development. As such, the literature on middling migrants has looked at skilled professionals (Beaverstock, 2011; Colic-Peisker & Deng, 2019; Ho, 2011; Wee & Yeoh, 2021) and middle-class youths seeking overseas adventures on ‘working holidays’ (Clarke, 2005, Robertson, 2013). This work is significant in contributing to understanding of migrants who are ‘wedged’ between the ‘highly skilled’ and ‘low-skilled’ migrant workers.…”

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“…The middling literature, however, has a large concentration on ‘white’ migrants (Beaverstock, 2011; Collins, 2014; Conradson & Latham, 2005; Scott, 2006; Wiles, 2008;) and gendered analyses are overtly focused on women (Kofman, 2012; Main, 2016; Tu & Xie, 2020). Literature on Asian middling migrants is relatively sparse, though this has been growing in recent years (Baas, 2017; Colic-Peisker & Deng, 2019 Jaskułowski, 2017; Robertson, 2019; Wee & Yeoh, 2021).…”

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Stuck between the Global North and South: Middling migrants in Australia and Singapore

Ang¹

2022

Journal of Sociology

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The literature on ‘middling transnationals’ is growing, although studies on Asian middling migrants are still relatively lacking. Current understandings of middling migrants are also frequently fixed on migrants’ mid-level skills and their middle-class status. Drawing on interviews with Nepali migrants living in Melbourne, Australia and mainland Chinese migrants living in Singapore respectively, this article considers how their middling visa status and imaginaries interact with anxious desires. The article argues, first, that migrants from the Global South experience heightened anxious desires due to imaginaries oscillating between the Global North and South. Second, and relatedly, the article argues that migration regimes keep migrants compliant through managing their anxious desires. By detailing the experiences of different groups of Asian migrants in separate migration regimes, the article aims to highlight the heterogeneous experiences among migrants originating from the Global South, and the techniques used by different states to produce temporary and compliant migrants.

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Chinese business migrants in Australia: Middle-class transnationalism and ‘dual embeddedness’

Cited by 21 publications

References 38 publications

A typology of Mexican highly educated immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States

A typology of Mexican highly educated immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States

Beyond embedded or not embedded: immigrant entrepreneurs’ embeddedness levels

Stuck between the Global North and South: Middling migrants in Australia and Singapore

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