Ethnic Economies and Ethnic Communities

Light, Ivan; Gold, Steven J.

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“…Workers in ethnic enclaves are disadvantaged because owing to residential segregation, they are limited to receiving “undesirable jobs and poor wages” (Sanders and Nee 1987a:747). In other words, entrepreneurs in ethnic enclaves thrive because they exploit their coethnic workers (also see Light and Gold 2000). …”

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Ethnic Enclaves and the Earnings of Immigrants

2011

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A large literature in sociology concerns the implications of immigrants’ participation in ethnic enclaves for their economic and social well-being. The “enclave thesis” speculates that immigrants benefit from working in ethnic enclaves. Previous research concerning the effects of enclave participation on immigrants’ economic outcomes has come to mixed conclusions as to whether enclave effects are positive or negative. In this article, we seek to extend and improve upon past work by formulating testable hypotheses based on the enclave thesis and testing them with data from the 2003 New Immigrant Survey (NIS), employing both residence-based and workplace-based measures of the ethnic enclave. We compare the economic outcomes of immigrants working in ethnic enclaves with those of immigrants working in the mainstream economy. Our research yields minimal support for the enclave thesis. Our results further indicate that for some immigrant groups, ethnic enclave participation actually has a negative effect on economic outcomes.

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Ethnic Enclaves and the Earnings of Immigrants

2011

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“…It demonstrates the critical role of immigrant entrepreneurs (Kloosterman and Rath eds, 2003) in the emergence of the ethnic economy (Light and Gold, 2000) in general and ethnic precincts (Rath ed., 2006) in particular in the cosmopolitan city. In each precinct the immigrant population was very diverse -they were multicultural suburbs -but the business enterprises were dominated by the immigrant groups who comprised around 80 per cent or more of all entrepreneurs in the precinct, even though this ethnic group, with the exception of Cabramatta, comprised less than 10 per cent of the population.…”

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“…Second, when immigrant entrepreneurs cluster together in a street, suburb or area, an ethnic precinct may emerge (Waldinger et al, 1990;Light and Rosenstein, 1995;Collins et al, 1995;Light and Gold, 2000;Rath ed., 2000;Kloosterman and Rath eds, 2003). The emergence of ethnic precincts in the city is a long-established feature of many immigrant cities in North America and Australia, with Chinatowns an almost universal form of this ethnicized place in contemporary western cities (Anderson, 1990(Anderson, , 1991Zhou, 1992;Kinkead, 1993;Fong, 1994;Fitzgerald, 1997;Lin, 1998).…”

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Ethnicity and Public Space in the City: Ethnic Precincts in Sydney

Collins

Kunz

2009

CCS Journal

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Ethnic precincts demonstrate how cultural diversity shapes public spaces. They are clusters of ethnic entrepreneurs who line the precinct streets selling food, goods or services in areas designated as ethnic precincts by local government officials who fund makeovers of public spaces to display ethnic iconography and symbolism to promote the area based on the 'ethnic' experience. Ethnic precincts are a key site of production and consumption of the ethnic economy, a commodification of place where the symbolic economy of space is constructed on representations of ethnicity and 'immigrantness'. To explore how ethnic diversity shapes public space we present findings of recent fieldwork in four Sydney precincts. We examine the complex relationship between immigrant entrepreneurs, local government and ethnic community representatives in shaping the emergence and development of ethnic precincts and demonstrate how perceptions of the authenticity of ethnic precincts vary according to whether customers are 'co-ethnic', 'co-cultural' or 'others'.

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“…Similar obstacles for leaving behind the inequality of youth status also confront Hispanic youth but to a lesser extent. Their movement into adulthood is more likely to be eased by supportive kin networks that facilitate community involvement and access to employment, albeit oftentimes into the “unskilled labor” and agricultural sectors of the labor force (Healey, 2006; Light & Gold, 2000). In contrast, for White and Asian youth the movement from adolescence to adulthood is much more likely to be associated with marked increases in legitimate opportunities and integration with adult society, including college attendance or employment at adequate wages.…”

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Patterns and Trends in Elder Homicide Across Race and Ethnicity, 1985-2009

Feldmeyer

Steffensmeier

2012

Homicide Studies

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In this report, we assess total and race/ethnicity-disaggregated patterns and temporal trends in elderly homicide (age 55-74) compared with younger age groups for the 1985-to-2009 period. To do this, we use California arrest statistics that provide annual homicide figures by race and ethnicity (including a Hispanic identifier) and by age. Major aims of our analysis are to establish whether (a) elderly homicide rates are different/similar across race/ethnic comparisons; (b) the elderly share of homicide and age-homicide distributions more generally differ across race/ethnicity; and (c) elderly rates of homicide and the share of elderly homicide relative to younger age groups is similar or different now as compared with 20 to 30 years ago. Our analysis is important and timely because some commentators have suggested that elderly homicide levels have been rising over the past one to two decades and because there is a virtual absence of research of any sort on elderly homicide trends that involve comparisons by race and ethnicity. Key findings are that elderly shares of homicide offending relative to younger ages have not increased (or decreased), that elder homicides continue to account for a small fraction of all homicides, and that these patterns persist across race/ethnicity comparisons.

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Ethnic Economies and Ethnic Communities

Cited by 45 publications

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Ethnic Enclaves and the Earnings of Immigrants

Ethnic Enclaves and the Earnings of Immigrants

Ethnicity and Public Space in the City: Ethnic Precincts in Sydney

Patterns and Trends in Elder Homicide Across Race and Ethnicity, 1985-2009

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