Population superdiversity and new migrant enterprise: The case of London

Sepúlveda, Leandro; Syrett, Stephen; Lyon, Fergus

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“…It is, however, not just the composition of the migrant populations which have changed in many cities, but also the urban economy and, hence, the opportunity structure for small businesses (Kloosterman 2010;Sepulveda, Syrett, and Lyon 2011). The leading sectors of this evolving urban economy, the, following Allen Scott (2008;, so-called cognitivecultural activities are dependent on the input of highly skilled labour offer opportunities for small businesses.…”

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Super-diverse migrants—similar trajectories? Ghanaian entrepreneurship in the Netherlands seen from a Mixed Embeddedness perspective

Kloosterman

Rusinovic

Yeboah

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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The Ghanaian population in the Netherlands is relatively wellendowed in terms of human capital. In addition, a large number of them came when deindustrialisation had run its course and the Dutch economy, the service sector in particular, started growing again after 1985. On the basis of the Mixed Embeddedness model, we expected that the combination of, on average, higher levels of human capital and the transformation of the (urban) economy, would lead to rather different patterns of entrepreneurship when compared to their predecessors who came as guest workers. We explored this issue using interviews with 84 Ghanaian entrepreneurs in the Netherlands. Our data only partly corroborated our hypotheses. Notwithstanding, the higher levels of human capital and the shifts in the urban economies, a significant number of Ghanaian entrepreneurs still end up in the lower echelons of the opportunity structure.

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Super-diverse migrants—similar trajectories? Ghanaian entrepreneurship in the Netherlands seen from a Mixed Embeddedness perspective

Kloosterman

Rusinovic

Yeboah

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…However, Sepulveda et al (2011) argue that many have overstated the importance of social capital as a way of facilitating migrant entrepreneurial business operations. Related to this point, Ram et al (2008) and Jones et al (2014) have emphasized how social capital can have negative as well as positive effects on migrant populations.…”

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Leveraging symbolic capital: the use of blat networks across transnational spaces

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“…In this respect the research evidence demonstrates the need to avoid developing stereotypical images and discourses surrounding the immigrant and ethnic entrepreneur. First because there is considerable variability in the level of entrepreneurial activity which is related not only to the characteristics of different migrant and ethnic communities, but also to national and local contexts and a range of other factors, including age and generation, migrant type, education and class (Kloosterman and Rath, 2001;Ram and Jones, 2008;Sepulveda et al, 2010). This variability is frequently more significant than any overall average figures related to enterprise rates across all ethnic groups, demonstrating the need to avoid simplistic assertions as to how diverse populations and enterprise activity are interrelated.…”

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Realising the Diversity Dividend: Population Diversity and Urban Economic Development

Syrett

Sepúlveda

2011

Environ Plan A

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This paper critically examines the increasing use of population diversity as a source of competitive advantage and distinctiveness within policies promoting urban economic development. Rising levels of population diversity are a characteristic feature of many urban areas and this has led to increased policy attempts to realise a so-called "diversity dividend". Yet much of this policy thinking demonstrates a restricted understanding of the nature of the relationships between diverse populations and urban economic change. Through a comprehensive review of existing theoretical and policy practice in relation to population diversity, this paper identifies an often narrow focus upon higher skilled and income populations and their needs within much urban economic policy thinking. It is argued that a more critical and wide-ranging approach to the complex relationship between population diversity and city development is required if a more just form of urban economic development is to be achieved.

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Population superdiversity and new migrant enterprise: The case of London

Cited by 140 publications

References 32 publications

Super-diverse migrants—similar trajectories? Ghanaian entrepreneurship in the Netherlands seen from a Mixed Embeddedness perspective

Super-diverse migrants—similar trajectories? Ghanaian entrepreneurship in the Netherlands seen from a Mixed Embeddedness perspective

Leveraging symbolic capital: the use of blat networks across transnational spaces

Realising the Diversity Dividend: Population Diversity and Urban Economic Development

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