Doctoral Dissertation Research: Entrepreneurship and Mobility in Immigrant Enclaves

博士论文研究：移民飞地的创业精神和流动性

• 批准号: 1131006
• 负责人: Gilbert Rozman
• 金额: $ 0.9万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1131006&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Entrepreneurship; Mobility

SES - 1131006Gilbert Rozman (PI)Sharon Yoon (co-PI)Princeton UniversityDoctoral Dissertation Research: Entrepreneurship and Mobility in Immigrant EnclavesAbstractEthnic enclaves can help immigrants use ethnic solidarity to become upwardly mobile. Such upward mobility trends are especially likely if an enclave is socioeconomically diverse, which itself often results from successive immigration waves. However, enclaves can also experience internal conflicts and factionalism, which can hinder working-class co-ethnics from effectively mobilizing resources and becoming upwardly mobile. This project focuses on the Korean enclave in Beijing as a case in point to examine the conditions under which co-ethnic immigrants manage to mobilize resources and pursue upward mobility under adverse conditions, i.e, where the enclave experiences strained solidarity. By strained solidarity, we mean significant levels of distrust manifested at the community level that impair smooth interactions among co-ethnics. The Korean enclave in Beijing is split (both socially and institutionally) between fourth-generation Korean Chinese rural migrants and recent South Korean immigrants. Nonetheless, the enclave has evolved into a flourishing residential and commercial district in which even lower-status Korean Chinese minorities have become increasingly upwardly mobile. The PIs examine the degree to which these mobility trends are related to various forms of cultural capital (linguistic, knowledge-based) and hypothesize that relying on transnational resources plays an important role in this context. Specifically, ties with both the recently arrived South Korean entrepreneurial class and resources available via their country of origin, South Korea. The study employs an original survey, interviews, and ethnographic field work involving Koreans in Beijing to test theoretically grounded hypotheses.Broader ImpactsThis study helps us understand the changing nature of upward mobility in an increasingly inter-connected world. It may advance our understanding of how historically disadvantaged minority groups can employ bilingual and bicultural abilities and other assets (innovations in communication and travel) to improve their mobility chances in ways that would not have been possible even a few decades ago. Findings from this study may be of interest to urban planners as well as policy makers and economists. In addition, this case study contributes to the sociological literature by examining whether classical notions of group solidarity as a mechanism for upward mobility apply to contemporary transnational enclaves.

gilbert Rozman (PI)Sharon Yoon （co-PI）普林斯顿大学博士论文研究：移民飞地的企业家精神和流动性摘要民族飞地可以帮助移民利用民族团结向上流动。如果一个飞地是社会经济多元化的，这种向上流动的趋势尤其可能出现，而社会经济多元化本身往往是连续的移民浪潮的结果。然而，飞地也可能经历内部冲突和派系斗争，这可能会阻碍工人阶级的共同种族有效地调动资源和向上流动。本项目以北京的朝鲜族飞地为例，考察了在不利条件下，即飞地经历紧张团结的情况下，混血儿移民设法调动资源和追求向上流动的条件。通过紧张的团结，我们指的是在社区层面表现出来的严重程度的不信任，这种不信任损害了共同种族之间的顺利互动。北京的朝鲜飞地（在社会和制度上）分为第四代朝鲜中国农村移民和最近的韩国移民。尽管如此，这片飞地已经发展成为一个繁荣的住宅和商业区，在这里，即使是地位较低的朝鲜族华人也变得越来越向上流动。pi研究了这些流动趋势与各种形式的文化资本（语言的、基于知识的）的关系程度，并假设依赖跨国资源在这种情况下起着重要作用。具体来说，就是与最近来到韩国的创业阶层以及通过他们的原籍国韩国获得的资源建立联系。该研究采用了原始调查、访谈和涉及北京韩国人的民族志实地工作来检验理论基础假设。更广泛的影响这项研究帮助我们了解在日益相互联系的世界中向上流动的变化性质。它可能会促进我们对历史上处于不利地位的少数群体如何利用双语和双文化能力以及其他资产（通信和旅行方面的创新）来提高他们的流动机会的理解，这在几十年前是不可能的。这项研究的结果可能会引起城市规划者、政策制定者和经济学家的兴趣。此外，本案例研究通过考察群体团结作为向上流动机制的经典概念是否适用于当代跨国飞地，为社会学文献做出了贡献。