2014/05/27 by Trevor Jones, Monder Ram, Paul Edwards +2 · 6 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · #Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
paper · doi:10.1080/08985626.2014.950697
openalex publication_date 2014/05/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
How can the phenomenon of new migrant enterprise be explained? The arrival of new migrants to the UK in significant numbers is prompting a new wave of business activity. This expression of ‘super-diversity’ poses challenges for existing modes of theorizing, or so it seems. We venture outside the cosmopolitan metropolis of London to examine the experiences of 165 new migrant business owners in the East Midlands region of the UK. Mixed embeddedness theory is used to illuminate the business activities of these new arrivals. We find that new migrants are indeed ‘diverse’ in many respects; but importantly, the onerous nature of structural constraints limit the scope of new migrant enterprise. There is more than a faint of echo of predecessor ethnic minority communities; and racism continues to cast influence on the business activities of new migrants.