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Grounded in a variety of empirical evidences of the impact of Transnational Entrepreneurship, this book aims to explore the new global social pattern of entrepreneurs doing business transnationally.
List of contents
1. Diaspora Governance and Transnational Entrepreneurship: some introductory reflections on the rise of an emerging social pattern in migration studies
Ricard Zapata-Barrero and Shahamak Rezaei
2. Exploring the intersection of transnational, ethnic, and migration entrepreneurship
Benson Honig
3. They are not all the same: immigrant enterprises, transnationalism, and development
Alejandro Portes and Brandon P. Martinez
4. Transnational entrepreneurs: opportunity or necessity driven? Empirical evidence from two dynamic economies from Latin America and Europe
Johannes von Bloh, Vesna Mandakovic, Mauricio Apablaza, José Ernesto Amorós and Rolf Sternberg
5. Harnessing the potential of Moroccans living abroad through diaspora policies? Assessing the factors of success and failure of a new structure of opportunities for transnational entrepreneurs
Ricard Zapata-Barrero and Z. Hellgren
6. Prometheus, the double-troubled – migrant transnational entrepreneurs and the loyalty trap
Shahamak Rezaei and Marco Goli
7. The mixed embeddedness of transnational migrant entrepreneurs: Moroccans in Amsterdam and Milan
Giacomo Solano
8. Exploring the relationship between immigrant enclave theory and transnational diaspora entrepreneurial opportunity formation
Osa-Godwin Osaghae and Thomas M. Cooney
9. Entrepreneurs’ transnational networks channelling exports: diasporas from Central & South America, Sub-Sahara Africa, Middle East & North Africa, Asia, and the European culture region
Ye Liu, Rebecca Namatovu, Emine Esra Karadeniz, Thomas Schøtt and Indianna D. Minto-Coy
About the author
Ricard Zapata-Barrero is Professor of Political Science at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Director of GRITIM–UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration). His main lines of research deal with contemporary issues of liberal democracy in contexts of diversity, especially the relationship between democracy, citizenship, and migration.
Shahamak Rezaei is Associate Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is the winner of "Danske Bank" 2014 award in "Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship". His research focuses on Transnational-Knowledge-Transfer, Migration, Transnational Entrepreneurship and Diaspora Entrepreneurship. During 2015–2019 he was Research Coordinator for the research project "DiasporaLink", financed by EU-REA– ‘Horizon 2020–RISE Program’.
Summary
Grounded in a variety of empirical evidences of the impact of Transnational Entrepreneurship, this book aims to explore the new global social pattern of entrepreneurs doing business transnationally.
