Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Diasporic Development: The Case of New Chinese Migrants in the USA

This article reports on findings from interviews with a small group of Chinese female immigrants to Australia who have started up their own business since their arrival. Unlike most publications concerning immigration that focus upon financial factors, we have instead concentrated on their personal journeys, why they started their businesses and the benefits they sought. We interviewed thirteen participants in Adelaide who had recently arrived from China with the aim of immigrating permanently to Australia. Immigration records indicate that by 2020 this figure had risen to over 160,000 per annum. However, it dropped again quickly in 2020 following the beginning of COVID-19. Nonetheless, according to recent Australian government records, over 866,200 current Australian residents have Chinese ancestry and 74% are first-generation migrants. The primary motivators for respondents were independence and control as well as income and skill development. Respondents were also satisfied by the personal development they gained.

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Minority Business

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation ◽

10.5367/000000001101298945 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 207-208

Keyword(s):

Small Businesses ◽

Information Sources ◽

Minority Business ◽

Minority Population ◽

Immigrant Entrepreneurship ◽

Ethnic Entrepreneurship ◽

Internet Resources ◽

The Usa ◽

Total Growth ◽

The Uk

‘Internet Review’ identifies relevant and useful Internet-based information sources and reviews Websites related to entrepreneurship and innovation. This issue's article introduces Internet resources on immigrant entrepreneurship and minority business. Economic growth cannot be sustained without the inclusion of ethnic entrepreneurship and the infusion of capital into minority business. In the USA the minority population will account for nearly 90% of the total growth in the nation's population from 1995 to 2050. In the UK, the annual contribution of small businesses run by ethnic minorities to the nation's economy is almost £40 billion.

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Ethnic group size, linguistic isolation, and immigrant entrepreneurship in the USA

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development ◽

10.1080/08985620500275612 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 17 (5) ◽

pp. 389-404 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Marie T. Mora ◽

Alberto Dávila

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Group ◽

Group Size ◽

Immigrant Entrepreneurship ◽

The Usa

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The effect of family size on education: new evidence from China's one-child policy

Journal of Demographic Economics ◽

10.1017/dem.2018.22 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 85 (1) ◽

pp. 21-42 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Laura M. Argys ◽

Susan L. Averett

Keyword(s):

Family Size ◽

Difference In Differences ◽

Trade Off ◽

Chinese Migrants ◽

One Child Policy ◽

Child Policy ◽

The Usa ◽

The One ◽

Additional Support ◽

New Evidence

AbstractEconomists theorize that the inverse relationship between income and family size reflects a trade-off between child quality and quantity. Testing this hypothesis requires addressing the simultaneity of the quality and quantity decisions. The unanticipated birth of twins and sex composition of the first two children have been used as the exogenous variation in family size with mixed results. We exploit the One-Child Policy (OCP) in China, which exogenously reduced fertility, and examine how the OCP affected the education of Chinese migrants to the USA. Using the American Community Survey and a difference-in-differences strategy, we find higher levels of education for Chinese migrants born after the OCP compared with their counterparts from other East Asian countries. This finding provides additional support for the existence of a quality-quantity trade-off.

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Immigrant entrepreneurship and agglomeration in high-tech industries in the USA

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy ◽

10.4337/9781783477326.00016 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 184-209 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cathy Yang Liu ◽

Gary Painter ◽

Qingfang Wang

Keyword(s):

High Tech ◽

Immigrant Entrepreneurship ◽

The Usa

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Global dynamics of immigrant entrepreneurship

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research ◽

10.1108/ijebr-03-2018-0141 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (5) ◽

pp. 780-800 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Jennifer Nazareno ◽

Min Zhou ◽

Tianlong You

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Models ◽

Future Research ◽

Global Dynamics ◽

Immigrant Entrepreneurship ◽

Content Type ◽

Main Research ◽

Changing Trends ◽

Local And Global Dynamics ◽

The Usa ◽

Insight Into

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on immigrant entrepreneurship since the mid-2000s to examine the changing trends, variations and theoretical advances in immigrant entrepreneurship in Western societies. Design/methodology/approach Using the SocIndex and Proquest Business Premium databases, the authors conducted a literature review of about 100 peer-reviewed articles published since the mid-2000s. The authors critically assess the main research findings, identify key concepts and models that have been developed over the past decade, and offer new theoretical insight into the ever-changing global dynamics of immigrant entrepreneurship. Although the focus is on the USA, the authors also include some seminal research based in other Western countries of immigrant reception. Findings Based on a critical review of existing research that has been published between 2004 and the present, the authors highlight main trends and variations of the entrepreneurial endeavors among diasporic migrants, address the emerging forces shaping immigrant entrepreneurship, highlight theoretical advances in the field of entrepreneurship studies, and suggest new directions for future research. The authors note that the changing trends and ethnonational variations are caused not only by unequal access to human capital, social capital, financial capital, and cross-border venture capital on the part of individual entrepreneurs, but also by differences in broader structural circumstances in the home country and/or host country and interaction between national/local and transnational/global forces. The authors discuss new theoretical advances, identify gaps and raise questions for future research. Originality/value The review offers important insight into the ever-changing local and global dynamics of immigrant entrepreneurship and broadens the established conceptual and theoretical models in the sociology of immigrant/ethnic entrepreneurship.

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Entrepreneurship in Ethnic Enterprises: The Making of New Immigrant Businesses in New York

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su132011183 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (20) ◽

pp. 11183

Author(s):

Md Mizanur Rahman ◽

Ali A. Hadi Alshawi ◽

Mehedi Hasan

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Small Businesses ◽

Immigrant Entrepreneurship ◽

Ethnic Entrepreneurship ◽

Immigrant Entrepreneurs ◽

The Usa ◽

American Society ◽

Ethnic Businesses ◽

Group Characteristics ◽

New Immigrant

Research on ethnic entrepreneurship has generated substantial literature on the development of ethnic businesses among different immigrant groups in North America. Such studies tend to focus on the emergence of immigrant entrepreneurship among earlier immigrant groups by highlighting either the group characteristics or the opportunity structure. Existing studies also tend to overlook the importance of innovation in immigrants’ small businesses due to the marginality of immigrant businesses. Thus, there is a dearth of research on new immigrant communities in the USA that illuminates immigrants’ innovative practices. Drawing on the experiences of 50 Bangladeshi entrepreneurs in New York, this research examined how this emerging immigrant group transformed into immigrant entrepreneurs through the investigation of their innovative practices in small business. This paper determined that immigrant entrepreneurs are embedded within the dynamics of the immigration trajectory and the broader context of American society. Although these new immigrants were driven towards the lower end of the economy, this study found that innovations have expanded the breadth and depth of their businesses and made their businesses different and rewarding.

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