Thinking Globally, Integrating Locally: Gender, Entrepreneurship and Urban Citizenship in Germany

Mushaben, Joyce Marie

doi:10.1080/13621020600633127

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“…First, we add evidence that there is increasing diversity in the employment patterns of immigrant-owned firms (e.g. Mushaben 2006;Altinay 2008). Second, we highlight the determinants of multicultural hybridism in these firms.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…In fact, Light, Bernard and Kim (1999) note how immigrant-owned firms can also hire ethnic workers who do not belong to the same ethnic group. The evidence collected by Mushaben (2006) shows that almost 17% of the Turkish firms in Germany hire from the German labour force and that 8.7% have non-co-ethnic employees. Leung (2001) found that while Chinese entrepreneurs in France maintain strong ties with their community, they also develop cooperation agreements with nonChinese entrepreneurs.…”

Section: Explaining Multicultural Hybridismmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The increasing managerial competences needed by these immigrant entrepreneurs, their human capital, their work experience and their levels of entrepreneurial commitment sustain the exploration and exploitation of commercial relationships with firms and customers located in different territories and industries (Kloosterman and Rath 2010). In particular, we observe the emergence of immigrant businesses that significantly depart from the traditional image and are able to utilize non-coethnic 'multicultural' resources (Mushaben 2006;Altinay and Altinay 2006;Altinay 2008). We will define these innovative organizational configurations as 'multicultural hybridism' within the firm 1 .…”

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confidence: 97%

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Beyond the enclave? Break-outs into mainstream markets and multicultural hybridism in ethnic firms

Arrighetti

Bolzani

Lasagni

2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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The literature on immigrant entrepreneurship has richly described the characteristics and peculiarities of ethnic businesses catering to enclave markets. However, several indications suggest that immigrant-owned firms are increasingly entering mainstream markets and changing both their internal structures and their external networks with resource providers. One of the most substantial changes, which has been overlooked by researchers, consists of the appearance of what we define as 'multiculturally hybrid firms', which are firms that rely on inter-ethnic managerial or labour resources to carry out their activities. Therefore, in this paper we provide an understanding of the variables that affect the recourse to solutions of multicultural hybridism in the entrepreneurial teams and personnel of immigrantowned firms. We conduct our empirical analyses on data collected through interviews on a sample of 130 immigrant entrepreneurs in Italy. Our results show that multicultural hybridism is mainly driven by the size of the founding team, the business's maturity, the entrepreneurs' host-country language competence and by entrepreneurs' motivation by individual goals rather than community goals. This research advances our knowledge about immigrant entrepreneurship by focusing on firm-level dimensions such as the diversity of entrepreneurial teams and employees, which are increasingly relevant in our multicultural societies.

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Section: Summary and Suggestions For Future Researchmentioning

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Section: Explaining Multicultural Hybridismmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Beyond the enclave? Break-outs into mainstream markets and multicultural hybridism in ethnic firms

Arrighetti

Bolzani

Lasagni

2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…This results in either an unproblematic representation of 'the migrant' and 'the citizen' and its controversial binary construction (Mushaben 2006, Bhimji 2008 or an idealistic synthesis of oppositional categories such as 'cosmopolitans' (read: universalist and inclusive) and 'locals' (read: particularist and exclusionary) without paying much attention to the mechanisms that produce these attitudes (Roudometof 2005, Brett andMoran 2011). That being said, future joint theoretical endeavours will certainly be beneficial to the wider debate around migration and citizenship but key categories such as migrant, citizen and identity need to be problematized to avoid essentializing migrants' subjectivities or reducing complex practices to a point on a cosmopolitan -local continuum.…”

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An aesthetics of diasporic citizenship: the example of Lebanese women in the UK

Caruso

2013

Citizenship Studies

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“…This focuses on the concept of ‘urban citizenship’ and suggests that those marginalized by conventional conceptions of citizenship in the form of nation‐state membership are now seeking their rights at the scale of the city, often in the form of new urban struggles (e.g. Holston, ; Işın, ; Mushaben, ; Varsanyi, ). Such struggles augment the hope for, and create an interest in, the potential of the city as a space to host new and more democratic interpretations of citizenship.…”

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Urban Citizenship, the Right to the City and Politics of Disability in Istanbul

Bezmez

2012

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Since the late 1990s, the 'urban citizenship' literature has accentuated the burgeoning potential of the city as host to more democratic interpretations of citizenship. A more recent literature highlighted the 'local trap' in such assumptions, arguing that the local cannot exist outside of neoliberalization. This article examines some of the recent institutional transformations in Istanbul's local government and seeks to understand where these might be situated in this discussion. Three institutions dealing with disability are scrutinized with regard to their power dynamics, discourses and practices. The argument is that, although superficially such developments seem to represent some of the tendencies highlighted by the urban citizenship literature (in terms of their scale, timing and appeal to a group previously excluded from modern citizenship), deeper analysis shows that these often promote charity-rather than rights-based approaches. This is because the push factors in the emergence of these institutions are not the urban struggles on the part of the disability community, but rather the ruling party's populism, the impact of supranational agencies and the demands of non-disabled residents at district level. Each of the three institutions examined is shaped primarily by one factor, leading to differing degrees of charity-and rights-based practices. Arguments concerning the prospects of more democratic interpretations of citizenship at local level need to consider experiences in diverse settings.

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Thinking Globally, Integrating Locally: Gender, Entrepreneurship and Urban Citizenship in Germany

Cited by 17 publications

References 6 publications

Beyond the enclave? Break-outs into mainstream markets and multicultural hybridism in ethnic firms

Beyond the enclave? Break-outs into mainstream markets and multicultural hybridism in ethnic firms

An aesthetics of diasporic citizenship: the example of Lebanese women in the UK

Urban Citizenship, the Right to the City and Politics of Disability in Istanbul

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