%0 Journal Article
%T Migration and Migrant Entrepreneurship in a German-Polish border region
%A Skraba, Anna
%A Nowicka, Magdalena
%J Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora
%V 2018 (XLIV)
%R 10.4467/25444972SMPP.18.033.9432
%N Vol. 169, issue 3
%P 17-39
%K ethnic entrepreneurship; German-Polish border region; immigrants; residential mobility; economic transformation
%@ 2081-4488
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/smpp/article/migration-and-migrant-entrepreneurship-in-a-german-polish-border-region
%X 
	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.