The ‘Global’ in the City Economy: Multicultural Economic Development in Birmingham

McEwan, Cheryl; Pollard, Jane; Henry, Nick

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2005.00628.x

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“…However, the 'official' representation of ethnic diversity at street level is either ascribed an ethnic brand such as Birmingham's thematic Chinese Quarter (McEwan, Pollard and Henry, 2005), or it is given an aspirational elsewhere (Leicester's 'West End').…”

Section: Narborough Road: Accelerated Flows and Migrant Churnmentioning

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Migrant infrastructure: Transaction economies in Birmingham and Leicester, UK

2016

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Original citation:Hall, Suzanne M., King, Julia and Finlay, Robin (2016) AbstractInfrastructure convenes social relations, thereby revealing how city dwellers access shared resources in the context of growing inequality. Our exploration of migrant infrastructure engages with how highly variegated migrant groups develop a 'transaction economy' (Simone, 2004) within marginalised city streets, exchanging goods and services, and information and care. In the context of ethnically diverse and deprived urban places, where state resources are increasingly diminished, we explore how a precarious yet skilled resourcefulness emerges through the street. Our empirical exploration of migrant infrastructure is located on Rookery Road in Birmingham and on Narborough Road in Leicester, and draws on qualitative surveys with 195 selfemployed proprietors from many countries of origin. The streets reveal transaction economies that intersect local and migratory resources, eluding the categorisation of cities associated with either a global North or a global South. Further, the lively nature of street transactions decentres western-centric measures of economic value. From the street, we develop a postcolonial analysis of infrastructure that relates properties of historic depth (power), socio-spatial texture (materiality) and locality (place).

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Section: Narborough Road: Accelerated Flows and Migrant Churnmentioning

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Migrant infrastructure: Transaction economies in Birmingham and Leicester, UK

2016

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“…It is a strategy that has clearly benefited a number of businesses. McEwan et al (2005), for example, describes how Chinese and South Asian entrepreneurs in Birmingham have drawn on their transnational links to source a huge range of food imports enabling them to establish successful supermarkets and ethnic food businesses in the city. However others argue that the advantage these diaspora links may offer are unlikely to outweigh the disadvantages of labour market conditions or deficiencies in human and financial forms of capital, which many ethnic minority enterprises face (Jones et al 2010).…”

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Transnational Entrepreneurship amongst Vietnamese Businesses in London

Bagwell¹

2014

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…McEwan et al (2005) find that the improved educational attainment of UK-born Indians has resulted in them participating as entrepreneurs in high-growth, high-margin sectors such as information technology and professional services. In contrast, other studies find that increased educational attainment reduces the propensity for entrepreneurship, as employment can offer the highly educated greater rewards (Clark and Drinkwater, 2000;Thompson et al, 2010).…”

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Entrepreneurial marketing in online businesses

Anwar

Daniel

2016

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PurposeMany countries are seeing unprecedented levels of migration, raising questions about the economic contribution of individuals that settle in host countries. We explore the operation of online businesses by ethnic minority entrepreneurs. We apply an entrepreneurial marketing lens to explore how such entrepreneurs draw on the resources to market their businesses. We also consider if online businesses offer such entrepreneurs the opportunity to break out of the highly competitive sectors with which they are traditionally associated. Design/methodology/approachKey informant interviews are undertaken with 22 entrepreneurs operating online businesses in the UK and augmented by complementary sources of data such as their web sites and press coverage. FindingsUse of an entrepreneurial marketing perspective demonstrates that marketing in such businesses is not haphazard or chaotic. Rather it reflects the emergent and flexible use of resources. The affordances of online businesses appear to offer opportunities for break out, but the reliance on incremental experimentation and copying others results in highly homogeneous approaches to marketing. We also provide empirical evidence of the link between visa status and entrepreneurial choices. Originality/valueDespite the popularity of online businesses, previous studies have not explored them as an opportunity for ethnic minority entrepreneurs. Our study moves the 2 consideration of break out from market-entry to the ongoing marketing activities that sustain a business. It also demonstrates how the domains of ethnic minority entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial marketing can be brought together via a focus on resources. Finally, it enriches entrepreneurial marketing by evidencing connections with notions of effectuation and entrepreneur-venture fit.

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The ‘Global’ in the City Economy: Multicultural Economic Development in Birmingham

Cited by 48 publications

References 44 publications

Migrant infrastructure: Transaction economies in Birmingham and Leicester, UK

Migrant infrastructure: Transaction economies in Birmingham and Leicester, UK

Transnational Entrepreneurship amongst Vietnamese Businesses in London

Entrepreneurial marketing in online businesses

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