Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Religion, and Ethnicity

Cases from Europe, Africa, and Asia
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-78515-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business

International migration is a growing phenomenon in the 21st century and is increasingly seen as a high-priority public policy issue by many governments, politicians, and the broader public throughout the world. Its importance to economic prosperity, human development, and safety and security ensures that it will remain a top priority for the foreseeable future.

This book highlights the importance of ensuring that we remain focused on the successes of migration as well as the challenges. At the end of the 20th century, more importance was given to immigrant and ethnic minority entrepreneurship, due to a positive impact on local economic growth and overall economic development in the hosting nations. In the 21st century, the imperative of the United Nations 2030 agenda involves a deeper understanding of the complex challenges for the achievement of sustainable goals. One of these challenges is to understand how migrant-entrepreneurs may or may not identify with their ethnic community, therefore dissociating themselves from their ethnic group. In this sense, religion and ethnicity are differentiating factors between social groups, and the relationships allows preserving their culture and establishing relationships and integration in the community at all levels. This edited volume brings together impactful contributions that will interest multidisciplinary academic areas and aims to contribute to the enhancement of scientific knowledge on the intersection of entrepreneurship, migration, ethnicity and religion, a gap in the existing literature that has the potential to provide a deeper understanding of factors that influence migrant populations’ contribution to socio-economic development in their communities.

This book will be an invaluable resource to researchers and scholars in the fields of Immigration, Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial culture and Economic Development.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walmsley, Andreas

Margaça, Clara

Margaca, Clara

Knorr, Helena

Knörr, Helena

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Immigrant Entrepreneurship and the role of religion and ethnicity: cases from Europe, Africa and Asia
Lynn Martin, Sheila Wamalwa and Hamza Abdelhabrim
Chapter 2 – Pentecostal migrant entrepreneurs doing identity work: complying and contesting faith and gendered neoliberal subjectivities in Britain
María Villares-Varela and Olivia Sheringham
Chapter 3 – Ethnicity and religion as symbolic capitals: learning from the case of diaspora Cypriot entrepreneurs in the UK during 1960-63
Eva Karayianni and Quang Evansluong
Chapter 4 – Coopetition and Ethnic Minority-Owned Businesses
Shiv Chadhry, David Crick and James M. Crick
Chapter 5 – Ways of mobilizing co-ethnic resources among Estonian migrant
entrepreneurs in Finland
Jaanika Kingumets
Chapter 6 – Immigrant entrepreneurship and local development in the Pyrenees: The role of immigrants' human and social capitals
Cristóbal Mendoza
Chapter 7 – Family Networks and Family Start-Up Activities in Northern Nigeria: The role of the Christian Faith and Entrepreneurial Resilience of Igbo Entrepreneurs
Kenneth Chukwujioke Agbim
Chapter 8 – Analysis of entrepreneurial triggers in African women: Impact on intention to migrate
Inés Ruiz-Rosa, Sara Arbelo-Pérez, Desiderio Gutiérrez-Taño and F. García-Rodríguez
Chapter 9 – Christianity and Migrant Women’s Entrepreneurship
Natasha Katura Mwila, Kassa Woldesenbet Beta and Meskerem Abi
Chapter 10 – Indonesian Migrant Workers and Economic Resilience in Selected ASEAN Countries
Joko Susanto and Nor Fatimah Sulaiman
Chapter 11 – Developing a Nation of Entrepreneurs: The Integral Role of Immigrant Entrepreneurship for the United Arab Emirates Vision 2030
Naveed Yasin and Marc Poulin
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Clara Margaça is an Assistant Professor at Lusofona University, Porto University Center, Portugal.

Andreas Walmsley is an Associate Professor in Business at Plymouth Marjon University, UK.

Helena Knörr is a Professor of Organizational Leadership at Point Park University and a Professor of Entrepreneurship at doinGlobal, a Global Leadership network, USA.