Full Description
A burgeoning literature is currently exploring the rise of a new migratory profile: migrants engaged in Transnational Entrepreneurship, referring to immigrants who are engaged in cross-border business involving their country of origin and destination, both perceived as lands of opportunity.
Until now, little has been done in linking business studies and migration studies in this particular field of research on diaspora politics and Transnational Entrepreneurship; besides, the focus has mostly been on identifying the key independent variables, patterns, and developing hypotheses on the favourable and non-favourable factors promoting migrant business involvement in the country of residence alone. This book collects the main findings of the European Horizon-2020-RISE Project "DiasporaLink", a multidisciplinary project that has gathered the most prominent scholars in their respective field. Grounded in a variety of empirical evidences of the impact of Transnational Entrepreneurship, the book aims to explore the new global social pattern of entrepreneurs doing business transnationally.
The chapters in this book were first published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Contents
1. Diaspora Governance and Transnational Entrepreneurship: some introductory reflections on the rise of an emerging social pattern in migration studies
Ricard Zapata-Barrero and Shahamak Rezaei
2. Exploring the intersection of transnational, ethnic, and migration entrepreneurship
Benson Honig
3. They are not all the same: immigrant enterprises, transnationalism, and development
Alejandro Portes and Brandon P. Martinez
4. Transnational entrepreneurs: opportunity or necessity driven? Empirical evidence from two dynamic economies from Latin America and Europe
Johannes von Bloh, Vesna Mandakovic, Mauricio Apablaza, José Ernesto Amorós and Rolf Sternberg
5. Harnessing the potential of Moroccans living abroad through diaspora policies? Assessing the factors of success and failure of a new structure of opportunities for transnational entrepreneurs
Ricard Zapata-Barrero and Z. Hellgren
6. Prometheus, the double-troubled - migrant transnational entrepreneurs and the loyalty trap
Shahamak Rezaei and Marco Goli
7. The mixed embeddedness of transnational migrant entrepreneurs: Moroccans in Amsterdam and Milan
Giacomo Solano
8. Exploring the relationship between immigrant enclave theory and transnational diaspora entrepreneurial opportunity formation
Osa-Godwin Osaghae and Thomas M. Cooney
9. Entrepreneurs' transnational networks channelling exports: diasporas from Central & South America, Sub-Sahara Africa, Middle East & North Africa, Asia, and the European culture region
Ye Liu, Rebecca Namatovu, Emine Esra Karadeniz, Thomas Schøtt and Indianna D. Minto-Coy
