What is ethnic in an ethnic economy?
What is ethnic in an ethnic economy?
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民族经济中的民族是什么？
DOI：
10.1080/03906700903525677
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发表时间：
2010
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通讯作者：
A. Pécoud
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作者：
A. Pécoud
本文批判性地考察了移民经济社会学中种族和企业家精神之间的关系。它认为，种族经济中什么是种族往往被混淆地概念化，现在有几个因素要求重新评估移民商业活动的种族性质。在对最近的研究进行回顾的基础上，概述了三个因素：跨群体商业互动的种族边界漏洞；移民经济内部在地位、性别、阶级和代际方面的多样性；以及移民经济发生的政治和体制背景。结论强调，需要对移民如何以及为什么成为企业家进行多方面的解释，这不仅要考虑到种族和社会资本构成的中观层面，还包括微观的个人因素和宏观制度环境。
This article examines critically the relationship between ethnicity and entrepreneurship in the sociology of immigrant economies. It argues that what is ethnic in an ethnic economy has often been confusingly conceptualised and that several factors now call for re-assessing the ethnic nature of immigrants' business activities. On the basis of a review of recent research, three such factors are outlined: the porosity of ethnic boundaries to cross-group business interactions; the diversity within immigrant economies in terms of status, gender, class and generation; and the political and institutional context in which immigrant economies take place. The conclusion stresses the need for multiple explanations of how and why immigrants become entrepreneurs, which take into account not only the meso-level constituted by ethnicity and social capital, but also micro-individual factors and macro-institutional settings.