Immigrant enterprise in Europe and the USA
By: Podromos Panayiotopoulos.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Minority business enterprises -- Europe; Minority business enterprises -- United States; Immigrants -- Europe; Immigrants -- United States; Europe -- Emigration and immigration; United States -- Emigration and immigration
Description: "This book examines the issue of immigration and the contribution immigrant enterprise plays in the economic development of gateway cities such as London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Amsterdam and Miami, cities which appear as the living embodiment of globalisation."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Globalisation 'from below', enterprise & ethnicity; title: Rise of ethnicity and the crisis of modernisation; title: Still they come: immigrants of New York; title: Miami: the end of the Cuban ethnic enclave?; title: Between the old and the new: Los Angeles and immigrant enterprise; title: From labour migrants to immigrant entrepreneurs in the European Union: an overview; title: London: enterprise in an immigrant metropolis; title: The state versus immigrant enterprise: the case of Amsterdam; title: Paris: immigrant enterprise in historical perspective; title: Conclusions: who benefits?.