Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the Americas - Drivers, Challenges and Local Economic Impact

Migration in the Americas continues unabated. Seeking to improve understanding of the complexity of this phenomenon, this book presents different approaches that are at the root of an immigrant-entrepreneur's decision-making and the implementation of entrepreneurial activity in North and South America.

List of contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Live, Work and Pray in the New York Metropolitan Area: Brazilian Immigrants and Ethnic-Religious Entrepreneurship. Donizete Rodrigues and Sidney Greenfield
Chpater 2 - Religious system, challenges and support for immigrant entrepreneurship "The immigration of Brazilians in the city of Lowell, MA, USA". Evaldo Vicente and Cleverton Duarte Epormucena
Chapter 3 - Entrepreneurship of Immigrants beyond Ethnic Enclaves: Determining Factors. Radjabu Mayuto and Zhan Su
Chapter 4 - Migration factors that influence local entrepreneurship in Baja California, as a Mexican border state with the state of California in the United States of America. Alfredo Valadez-García, Josué Aarón López-Leyva, Sialia Karina Mellink-Méndez and Gloria Janeth Murillo-Aviña
Chapter 5 - The entrepreneur migrant woman and her emancipatory (im)possibilities in Brazilian context. Suélen Cristina de Miranda and Cecília Pescatore Alves
Chapter 6 - Wine entrepreneurs: Italian immigrants and the wine-making industry in Southern Brazil. Antonio de Ruggiero
Chapter 7 - Identity and agency of small businesses founded by German immigrants¿ descendants in Santa Catarina State, South of Brazil. Hilka Pelizza Vier Machado, Ieda Margarete Oro, Sayonara de Fátima Teston , Fábio Lazzarotti and Jörg Freiling
Chapter 8 - Migrant ethnic groups: South-South entrepreneurs in Antofagasta (Chile). Gianni Romaní Chocce, Emilio Ricci and Luis Miguel Rodrigo
Chapter 9 - South-South Migration and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Chile.Yamil Tala, Mauricio Apablaza and Vesna Mandakovic
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Clara Margaça is an Assistant Professor at Lusofona University, Porto University Center, Portugal.
Andreas Walmsley is an Associate Professor in Business at Plymouth Marjon University, UK.
Helena Knörr is a Professor of Organizational Leadership at Point Park University and a Professor of Entrepreneurship at doinGlobal, a Global Leadership network, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Clara Walmsley Margaca
• Assisted by: Helena Knorr (Editor), Helena Knörr (Editor), Clara Margaça (Editor), Walmsley Andreas (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 20.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032785127
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3278512-7
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Business & Economics / General, Law, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration, Labour / income economics, Politics & government, International business, Labour Economics, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, The Americas, Business mathematics & systems, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Business mathematics and systems