Introduction to the special issue: intersectionality and entrepreneurship

Romero, Mary; Valdez, Zulema

doi:10.1080/01419870.2016.1171374

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“…Wimmer 2008). This tendency is also observed in immigrant entrepreneurship studies (Danes et al 2008;Pécoud 2000;Rath 2000;Romero and Valdez 2016). Most studies inquire into community characteristicsinvestigating for example rates of self-employment (as a proxy for entrepreneurship), network endowments, performance differences, or concentration in economic niches (Aliaga-Isla and Rialp 2013)and especially into the differences between communities on the national level (Danes et al 2008).…”

Section: Literature Review: Ethnic Boundaries In Immigrant Entreprenementioning

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“…Our second contribution lies in a critical reappraisal of the role of ethnic boundaries in immigrant entrepreneurship. A number of previous studies reveal micro-level ethnic dynamics in immigrant entrepreneurship, describing internal differentiation within ethnic groups (Romero and Valdez 2016;Sepulveda, Syrett, and Lyon 2011), business engagements across ethnic groups (Arrighetti, Bolzani, and Lasagni 2014;Griffin-El and Olabisi 2018), and the negotiation of existing identities or practices within ethnic groups (Essers and Benschop 2009;Ram et al 2003). Implicitly or explicitly, these studies challenge static understandings of ethnic boundaries in immigrant entrepreneurship.…”

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Ethnic boundary dynamics in immigrant entrepreneurship: a Barthian perspective

Verver

Roessingh

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2020

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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This paper sets out to better understand the role of ethnic boundary dynamics in immigrant entrepreneurship, in particular in terms of intersections at the boundaries between 'ethnic' and 'mainstream' economies, internal differentiation within ethnic community boundaries, and the socially constructed nature of ethnic boundaries more broadly. To better account for these dynamics, we develop a Barthian perspective on immigrant entrepreneurship, building on and integrating Fredrik Barth's work on entrepreneurship, ethnic boundaries, and spheres of value. A Barthian perspective shifts the analytic focus from the ethnic group to entrepreneurial activities and, by implication, to the ethnic boundary dynamics that these activities generate. We draw on ethnographic research conducted among immigrant Mennonite entrepreneurs in Belize, and identify three boundary dynamics among the Mennonites: bridging the boundary between Mennonite ethnicity and the wider Belizean society, stretching the boundaries of individual Mennonite communities, and allying across the boundaries between Mennonite communities. In developing a Barthian perspective, the contribution of our paper lies in developing a comprehensive framework for understanding the role of ethnic boundary dynamics in immigrant entrepreneurship, thereby also responding to calls for more micro-processual approaches to understanding the 'mixed embeddedness' of immigrant entrepreneurs in their ethnic community and the wider society contexts.

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Ethnic boundary dynamics in immigrant entrepreneurship: a Barthian perspective

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2020

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge (2016) define intersectionality as "a way of understanding and analyzing the complexity in the world, in people, and human experiences… When it comes to social inequality, people's lives and the organization of power in a given society are better understood as being shaped not by a single axis of social division, be it race or gender, or class, but by many axes that work together and influence each other" (p. 2). By migration and race scholars adopting an intersectional approach to their research, it sheds light on other structural inequities, such as undocumented status, as important axes of stratification (Golash-Boza, 2016; López & Gadsden, 2016;Romero & Valdez, 2016;Viruell-Fuentes et al, 2012).…”

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Bridging critical race theory and migration: Moving beyond assimilation theories

García

2017

Sociology Compass

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Critical race scholars have shifted the sociological migration literature from addressing how immigrants incorporate into the host society to instead asking how immigrants, their children, and communities are racialized. They also shift the focus from “ethnic” descriptions of immigrants of color by bringing race and racism to the forefront. This article provides an overview of critical race theory to document the racialized lives of Mexican immigrants and their communities. I bring attention to one of the dominant approaches to the study of sociological migration, segmented assimilation theory. In doing so, I use critical race theory as a framework to bring race and other axes of stratification such as undocumented status to light.

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“…Self-employed work may rely on, or be refracted through, particular histories or practices of class, immigration, race, nationality and ethnicity (Romero & Valdez, 2016;Sanghera, 2002). Additionally, self-employment is gendered, in form and in the narratives used to explain it, for instance, in the rise of 'mumtrepreneurs' and 'fempreneurs' (Ekinsmyth, 2011;Rouse et al, 2013), and in self-employed workers' access to familial resources (Marlow et al 2009) and inheritance (Valdez 2016). Similarly, self-employment practices vary with worker age and over the life course (Burchell et al, 2016;Mallett & Wapshott, 2015;McKie et al 2013).…”

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“…To describe a person, group, organization or economy as 'entrepreneurial' implies creativity, growth and a positive labor-market effect. The 'entrepreneur is the archetype of the American Dream (Valdez 2016). Yet, where 'entrepreneurialism' is defined indirectly as self-employment, or individuals who work on their own account with no employees (Rath 2000), it is measured using individuals' or groups' self-employed activity or national self-employment rates (c.f.…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Everyday Self-Employment

Cohen

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Valdez

2018

American Behavioral Scientist

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. attracted policy concern across national, supranational and global scales, yet sociological thought has been somewhat slower to respond to this phenomenon. In response, this special issue focuses on everyday self-employment amongst workers drawn from countries across the world. The collection of articles in this volume originated, in part, from a recent symposium that took place at City, University of London, which highlighted the contribution of sociology and cognate disciplines to the study of self-employment. The volume considers the social and structural forces that condition this economic activity as an ideology and practice, as well as the constraints and opportunities for its maintenance and reproduction. Permanent repository linkIt also examines the everyday lives of self-employed workers and in particular the ways in which self-employment is experienced across a range of geographical, occupational, and industrial contexts, and with regard to social categories including race, class, nationality and gender. As neo-liberal subjects we are increasingly required to inhabit an entrepreneurial self. As such, a sociological understanding of the global patterns and everyday experiences of self-employment -or entrepreneurialism as practice -is essential for a critical understanding of the economy and society and the cultural legitimations associated with this oft-celebrated and aspirational economic activity. The contributors in this volume often challenge the mainstream view of self-employment and entrepreneurship to reveal the complexity and scope of activity; their perspectives provide new insights for researchers and policymakers regarding the function of self-employment in a changing economy and society. This introduction initiates a discussion of the central debates in the study of self-employment, introduces a working conceptualization of selfemployment, and presents a brief synopsis of the articles in this volume.

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Introduction to the special issue: intersectionality and entrepreneurship

Cited by 94 publications

References 26 publications

Ethnic boundary dynamics in immigrant entrepreneurship: a Barthian perspective

Ethnic boundary dynamics in immigrant entrepreneurship: a Barthian perspective

Bridging critical race theory and migration: Moving beyond assimilation theories

Introduction to the Special Issue: Everyday Self-Employment

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