From ethnic minority niche to assimilation: Turkish restaurants in Brussels<sup>1</sup>

Kesteloot, Christian; Mistiaen, Pascale

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.1997.tb00034.x

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“…Even so, this articulates with literal space in the sense that geographical location within the city helps to determine access to this demand potential. Following Davies and Harris' (1990) analysis of retail location (highly applicable also to restaurants), we would argue that there are two basic locational strategies available to South Asian restaurateurs -exploitation of spatially unbounded demand through agglomeration and exploitation of high neighbourhood potential through direct (re)location (see also Hotelling, 1929;Narayan, 1995;Kesteloot and Mistiaen, 1997). The 'collective pulling power' (Davies and Harris, 1990) of a localized agglomeration of consumer service outlets is, of course, exemplified to perfection by the 'Balti Quarter' itself.…”

Section: Geographical Space and Market Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnic Minority Enterprise in its Urban Context: South Asian Restuarants in Birmingham

Ram

Jones

Abbas

et al. 2002

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The embeddedness of ethnic minority business activity is widely accepted, as researchers increasingly eschew ethno-culturalist explanations of the phenomenon. However, despite the importance of urban processes, studies of ethnic minority enterprise are often 'spaceless'. This article uses Rekers and van Kempen's urban spatial framework to assess the experiences of South Asian owners in Birmingham's restaurant industry. One taken-for-granted but evidently important element to which this article draws attention is location, which emerges as one of the key points of differentiation within the ethnic business community. Location is seen to influence individual access to market potential, an unevenly distributed resource largely shaped by local social geography. At the same time, entry into more lucrative market niches is heavily dependent on the possession of other resources such as capital, information and in some instances management skills. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2002.

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Section: Geographical Space and Market Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnic Minority Enterprise in its Urban Context: South Asian Restuarants in Birmingham

Ram

Jones

Abbas

et al. 2002

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…This meant a reduction of the supply in the residual sector at a time when the demand for this type of housing was rising because of secondgeneration guestworker households entering the market. The maintenance of this concentration interactedwith the establishment of an ethnic infrastructure (ethnic entrepreneurship is a strategy both to escape unemployment and to profit from the spatial concentration of a specific demand), which further bound theethnicminorities to theiroriginalneighbourhoods (for the example of Turkish restaurants, see Kesteloot & Mistiaen 1997). Finally, the crisisgave rise to the development ofsurvival strategies, which in the case of the ethnic groups are strongly linked to their own social networks and therefore to their neighbourhoods (Mistiaen et al 1995).…”

Section: Stability and Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Foreigners in Brussels 1981–1991: Spatial Continuity and Social Change

Kesteloot

Haegen

1997

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This contribution considers the spatial distribution of foreigners in Brussels. Fifteen nationalities are considered, among which a group of affluent foreigners linked to the international functions of the city (EU Capital and NATO headquarters) and a poor group whose beginnings can be traced to the ‘guestworkers’ immigration in the late sixties and early seventies. Firstly, the population structure of Brussels and the position of its foreigners are outlined in a historical perspective. Then, the housing market structure and its spatial distribution are explained. Both elements are crucial to the understanding of the contrasting residential distribution of the affluent foreigners and the guestworkers. Finally, the changes in the composition of the foreign communities between 1981 and 1991 are examined and related to processes of urban restructuring. They express the passage from a Fordist to a post‐Fordist city whereby spatial patterns merely change, but deepening contrasts in the social structure appear.

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“…Studies of ethnic minority enterprise have included the exploitation of an 'ethnic minority niche ' (Light and Bhachu 1993;Kesteloot and Mistiaen 1997;Patel 1995). Kesteloot and Mistiaen (1 997), for example, highlight the evolution and spatial distribution of Turkish restaurants in Brussels.…”

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confidence: 99%