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Migration and Migrant Entrepreneurship in a German-Polish border region

Publication date: 12.12.2018

Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, 2018 (XLIV), Vol. 169, issue 3, pp. 17 - 39

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.18.033.9432

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Anna Skraba
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Magdalena Nowicka
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Migration and Migrant Entrepreneurship in a German-Polish border region

Abstract

Social sciences are interested in ethnic entrepreneurship as a chance for migrants to (better) integrate into the host labour market, and in consequence into a host society. Th e multidimensional models capture a wide range of factors at the bottom of the economic behaviour of migrant entrepreneurs, and they increasingly consider that migrants might profi t in business from sustaing their social ties with the country of their origin. Looking at Polish migrant entrepreneurs in eastern German regions bordering to Poland we plead for a relational perspective which considers migrants’ business activities in relation to the patterns of trans-border residential mobility and complex social and economic transformations in Polish and German border regions.

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Information: Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, 2018 (XLIV), Vol. 169, issue 3, pp. 17 - 39

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Migration and Migrant Entrepreneurship in a German-Polish border region

English:

Migration and Migrant Entrepreneurship in a German-Polish border region

Authors

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Published at: 12.12.2018

Article status: Open

Licence: None

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Anna Skraba (Author) - 50%
Magdalena Nowicka (Author) - 50%

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