Governing through “Ethnic Entrepreneurship”

Ethnic/Immigrant Entrepreneurship Through the Yellow Pages in Berlin

“…The number of entrepreneurs with a family history of migration from Turkey is estimated at 6,000 (Hillmann ), making them the largest entrepreneurial group among migrants, followed by entrepreneurs from Vietnam and Poland (Hillmann & Sommer ). Since the early 1990s, entrepreneurship – especially among migrants from Turkey – has become a form of integration not only into the host society (Ülker ), but also into reunified Berlin, as it seeks to develop its position in the German urban system. Ethnic/immigrant entrepreneurship is a way of governing oneself and others by creating jobs, offering training, paying taxes, producing goods and services, making a profit and re‐investment, and becoming more responsible to and for themselves, their families, and migrant communities (Ülker ).…”