Title: The economic sociology of immigration : essays on networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship /
Authors: Portes, Alejandro, 1944-
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation,
Year: 1995
Subjects: United States Emigration and immigration Economic aspects.; United States Emigration and immigration Government policy.
Contents: Economic sociology and the sociology of immigration : a conceptual overview / Alejandro Portes -- Socially expected durations and the economic adjustments of immigrants / Bryan R. Roberts -- Immigration and local labor markets / Saskia Sassen -- The economic sociology of firms and entrepreneurs / Mark Granovetter -- Expanding the interaction theory of entrepreneurship / Ivan Light and Carolyn Rosenstein -- Social and cultural capital in the urban ghetto : implications for the economic sociology of immigration / M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly -- Children annd immigrants :segmented assimilation and its determinants / Alejandro Portes.