1st Edition

Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Religion, and Ethnicity Cases from Europe, Africa, and Asia

Edited By Clara Margaça, Andreas Walmsley, Helena Knörr Copyright 2025
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

International migration is a growing phenomenon in the 21st century and is increasingly seen as a high-priority public policy issue by many governments, politicians, and the broader public throughout the world. Its importance to economic prosperity, human development, and safety and security ensures that it will remain a top priority for the foreseeable future. This book highlights the... Read more

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Clara Margaça, Andreas Walmsley, and Helena Knörr

1 Immigrant entrepreneurship: An institutional perspective

Lynn Martin, Sheila Wamalwa, and Hamza Abdelhabrim

2 Pentecostal migrant entrepreneurs doing identity work: Complying and contesting faith and gendered neoliberal subjectivities in Britain

María Villares-Varela and Olivia Sheringham

3 Ethnicity and religion as symbolic capitals: Learning from the case of diaspora Cypriot entrepreneurs in the UK during 1960–1963

Eva Karayianni and Quang Evansluong

4 Coopetition and ethnic minority-owned businesses

Shiv Chaudhry, David Crick, and James M. Crick

5 Ways of mobilising co-ethnic resources among Estonian migrant entrepreneurs in Finland

Jaanika Kingumets

6 Immigrant entrepreneurship and local development in the Pyrenees: The role of immigrants’ human and social capitals

Cristóbal Mendoza

7 Family networks and family start-up activities in Northern Nigeria: The role of the Christian faith and entrepreneurial resilience of Igbo entrepreneurs

Kenneth Chukwujioke Agbim

8 Analysis of entrepreneurial triggers in African women: Impact on intention to migrate

Inés Ruiz-Rosa, Sara Arbelo-Pérez, Desiderio Gutiérrez-Taño, and F. García-Rodríguez

9 Christianity and migrant women’s entrepreneurship

Natasha Katuta Mwila, Kassa Woldesenbet Beta, and Meskerem Abi

10 Indonesian migrant workers and economic resilience in selected ASEAN countries

Joko Susanto and Nor Fatimah Che Sulaiman

11 Developing a nation of entrepreneurs: The integral role of immigrant entrepreneurship for the United Arab Emirates Vision 2030

Naveed Yasin and Marc Poulin

Conclusion

Helena Knörr, Andreas Walmsley, and Clara Margaça

Index

Biography

Clara Margaça is Assistant Professor at Lusofona University, Porto University Center, Portugal.

Andreas Walmsley is Associate Professor in Business at Plymouth Marjon University, UK.

Helena Knörr is Professor of Organizational Leadership at Point Park University and Professor of Entrepreneurship at doinGlobal, a Global Leadership network, USA.

“Book of great interest for reconciling highly relevant aspects: entrepreneurship, immigration, ethnicity and religion. The cases studied show a diversity and originality that is truly important for research and for the academic field.” – Juan Manuel Matés-Barco, University of Jaén, Spain