Self-Employment in Russia: Theoretical Definition, Practical Assessment, and Legislative Regulation

Drawing upon a collection of oral history interviews, this paper offers an insight into entrepreneurial and residential patterns and behaviour amongst Turkish Muslims in the German city of Bremen. The academic literature has traditionally argued that Turkish migrants in Germany have been pushed into self-employment, low-quality housing and segregated neighbourhoods as a result of discrimination, and poor employment and housing opportunities. Yet the interviews reveal the extent to which Bremen’s Turkish Muslims’ performances and experiences have overwhelmingly been the consequences of personal choices and ambitions. For many of the city’s Turkish Muslim entrepreneurs, self-employment had been a long-term objective, and they have succeeded in establishing and running their businesses in the manner they choose with regards to location and clientele, for example. Similarly, interviewees stressed the way in which they were able to shape their housing experiences by opting which districts of the city to live in and by purchasing property. On the whole, they perceive their entrepreneurial and residential practices as both consequences and mediums of success, integration and a loyalty to the city of Bremen. The findings are contextualised within the wider debate regarding the long-term legacy of Germany’s post-war guest-worker system and its position as a “country of immigration”.

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Entrepreneurship as Social Status: Turkish Immigrants’ Experiences of Self-Employment in Finland

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v5i1.58 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 53-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Östen Wahlbeck

Keyword(s):

Social Status ◽

Fast Food ◽

Economic Hardship ◽

Social Aspects ◽

Food Sector ◽

Turkish Immigrants ◽

Self Employment

The article discusses the experiences of self-employment among immigrants from Turkey living in Finland. The immigrants are mainly active in the restaurant and fast food sector in Finland, primarily in small kebap and pizza businesses. The article argues that both economic and social aspects explain the experiences of self-employment. Despite economic hardship, the freedom and social status connected to entrepreneurship is highly valued. Self-employment provides a positive self-understanding and a good social status, which the immigrants from Turkey find it difficult to achieve by any other means in Finnish society

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First Steps towards Self-Employment – Microcredit for Enterprise in Scotland

Scottish Affairs ◽

10.3366/scot.2014.0016 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 169-191 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Neil McHugh ◽

Morag Gillespie ◽

Jana Loew ◽

Cam Donaldson

Keyword(s):

Economic Policy ◽

Small Businesses ◽

Enterprise Development ◽

Grameen Bank ◽

Economic Strategy ◽

Self Employment ◽

Start Up ◽

The Uk ◽

Poor Communities

While lending for small businesses and business start-up is a long-standing feature of economic policy in the UK and Scotland, little is known about the support available for those taking the first steps into self-employment, particularly people from poorer communities. This paper presents the results of a project that aimed to address this gap. It mapped provision of support for enterprise, including microcredit (small loans for enterprise of £5,000 or less) and grants available to people in deprived communities. It found more programmes offering grants than loans. Grants programmes, although more likely to be time limited and often linked to European funding, were generally better targeted to poor communities than loan programmes that were more financially sustainable. The introduction of the Grameen Bank to Scotland will increase access to microcredit, but this paper argues that there is a place – and a need – for both loans and grants to support enterprise development across Scotland. A Scottish economic strategy should take account of all levels of enterprise development and, in striving towards a fairer Scotland, should ensure that the poorest people and communities are not excluded from self-employment because of the lack of small amounts of support necessary to take the first steps.

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THE FUNCTIONS OF THE CRIMINAL-EXECUTIVE INSPECTION FOR THE MONITORING OF PRISONERS SUFFERING FROM DRUG ADDICTION

Sociopolitical sciences ◽

10.33693/2223-0092-2020-10-2-210-212 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 210-212

Author(s):

TATYANA TIMOFEEVA ◽

Keyword(s):

Drug Addiction ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

Drug Addicts ◽

Legislative Regulation

The article is devoted to the functions of the criminal Executive inspections of the Federal penitentiary service in monitoring convicted drug addicts. The statistical number of this category of convicts is analyzed, problematic issues are considered, contradictions and shortcomings in the legal regulation of the procedure for monitoring convicts suffering from drug addiction, and proposals are made to improve the legislative regulation of the procedure for monitoring convicted drug addicts.

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LEGISLATIVE REGULATION OF GENERICS IN UKRAINE AND USA: COMPARATIVE AND LEGAL ANALYSES

Theory and Practice of Intellectual Property ◽

10.33731/22018.146330 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 0 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Інна Волинець

Keyword(s):

Legislative Regulation

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The importance of the institutional support system for entrepreneurship and self-employment among rural women (on the example of the National Service Systems Advisory Points)

Problemy Drobnych Gospodarstw Rolnych / Problems of Small Agricultural Holdings ◽

10.15576/pdgr/2017.1.17 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 17-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Zofia Gródek-Szostak ◽

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Anna Szeląg-Sikora ◽

Joanna Rorat ◽

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Keyword(s):

Support System ◽

Rural Women ◽

Institutional Support ◽

Service Systems ◽

National Service ◽

Self Employment

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High Technology Entrepreneurship

International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology ◽

10.23956/ijermt.v6i6.275 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. 236

Author(s):

Harjyot Kaur ◽

Manjit Kaur

Keyword(s):

Social Entrepreneurship ◽

New Products ◽

High Technology ◽

Asset Ownership ◽

Technology Entrepreneurship ◽

Self Employment ◽

Development Section ◽

Value Of Firm ◽

Ownership Rights ◽

Selection Of

High Technology entrepreneurship is very important aspect in many debates, including those which are regarding launching new firms and development, regional economic development, section of stakeholders, selection of markets, educating managers and scientists.The purpose of this article is to define the high technology entrepreneurship, and identify its various aspects in relation with economics, entrepreneurship and management.High technology entrepreneurship is an investment in a project that uses various specialized individuals and various assets to create and capture the value of firm. Collaborative experiments and production of new products, assets and their attributes, which related to advances in scientific and technological knowledge and the firm’s asset ownership rights are the various factors which distinguishes Technology entrepreneurship from other entrepreneurship types (e.g. Social entrepreneurship, Small business and Self employment).

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