Doctoral Dissertation Research: Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Business Networks

SES-1021894David FitzgeraldLeah Muse-Orlinoff加州大学圣地亚哥分校移民企业家如何建立和维护他们的商业网络，特别是在他们的种族和移民社区之外？这些网络形成过程-以及由此产生的网络结构-在多大程度上因企业家的法律的地位而不同？该项目研究行为者如何将经济关系嵌入社会结构。将社会网络分析的方法和理论应用于移民创业。 具体而言，人种学和定量网络数据的组合将被用来研究网络形成的过程和商业网络的移民企业家从墨西哥尤卡坦州谁生活和工作在旧金山弗朗西斯科，加州。 根据尤卡坦地方政府的评估，1995年至2008年期间，约有10 000名来自该社区的移民迁移到旧金山弗朗西斯科湾区，还有大量来自其他社区的尤卡坦人居住在旧金山弗朗西斯科或附近。 尤卡坦人拥有的企业存在于这些社区和尤卡坦食品和商品的需求，而新的创造了新生的企业家。 这项研究将在一年的时间内研究Youctecan餐厅老板的六个商业网络。 主要的假设是，新移民企业家倾向于积极地将自己嵌入接收社会的经济和社会结构。更广泛的影响。 这项研究提供了一个新的经验视角，将移民社区纳入接收社会的经济生活和政府政策在微观经济活动中的作用。 项目的调查结果将帮助我们了解如何识别移民企业创造社会和经济联系，从种族背景和民族血统的群体。

SES-1021894David FitzgeraldLeah Muse-OrlinoffUniversity of California-San DiegoHow do immigrant entrepreneurs build and maintain their business networks, particularly outside of their ethnic and migrant communities? To what extent do these network formation processes--and the resulting network structures-- differ according to the legal status of the entrepreneur? This project studies how actors embed economic relationships in social structures. The methodologies and theories of social network analysis are applied to immigrant entrepreneurship. Specifically, a combination of ethnographic and quantitative network data will be used to study the process of network formation and the business networks of immigrant entrepreneurs from the Mexican state of Yucatán who live and work in San Francisco, California. According to Yucatecan local government assessments approximately 10,000 migrants from that community migrated to the San Francisco Bay Area between 1995 and 2008 and significant numbers of Yucatecans from other communities reside in or around San Francisco. Yucatecan-owned businesses exist in these neighborhoods and the demand for Yucatecan foods and goods while new has created nascent businesses entrepreneurs. This study will examine six-business networks of Youctecan restaurant owners over a one year period. The major hypothesis is that new immigrant entrepreneurs tend to actively embed themselves into the economic and social fabric of their receiving society. Broader Impact. This study offers a new empirical perspective on the incorporation of immigrant communities into the economic life of receiving societies and the role of government policies in microeconomic activity. Project findings will help us to understand how identifies immigrant business enterprises create social and economic ties across groups from ethnic backgrounds and national origins.