1st Edition
Class, Ethnicity, Gender and Latino Entrepreneurship
1. Latino Entrepreneurship Reconsidered: An Overview of the Study 2. Theorizing Immigrant Entrepreneurship 3. Divergent Latino Immigrant Stories: Salvadorans and Peruvians in America 4. The Washington Area Opportunity Structure and Latino Entrepreneurs 5. Class Resources, Group Cohesion and Business Strategies 6. Ethnicity and Business Strategies 7. Gender and Resource Mobilization Strategies 8. Social Networks, Social Capital and Embeddedness 9. Conclusion: The Social Bases and Consequences of Latino Entrepreneurship. Appendix A: Research Instruments. Appendix B: Study Participants Data.
Biography
María Eugenia Verdaguer is Branch Chief for Fulbright Academic Exchanges across Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
"quite appreciable is her contribution to a more nuanced understanding of ethnic minority entrepreneurship, both empirically sound and sensible to the selective and changing ways in which it is structurally and relationally embedded..."
—Paolo Poccagni, University of Trento, Sociologica
