1st Edition

Migrant Entrepreneurship and Digital Technologies in the Global South Navigating Exclusion, Informality and Innovation

By Tamaralaiyefa Harold Tiemo Copyright 2027
192 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Digital technologies are reshaping the conditions under which migrant entrepreneurs operate in the Global South. This book explores how migrants use digital tools and platforms to build and sustain businesses in environments shaped by legal uncertainty, fragmented governance, uneven infrastructure, and limited institutional support. It examines how digital systems both enable and constrain... Read more

1. Introduction: Digitalising Migrant Entrepreneurship in the Global South  Part I – Conceptual Reframing: Digital Structures and Inequalities  2. Repositioning Migrant Entrepreneurship: Challenging Global North Paradigms  3. The Digital Constraint Navigation Framework: Integrating Digital Embeddedness and Intersectionality in Migrant Entrepreneurship  Part II – Structures and Exclusions: Systems Shaping Migrant Entrepreneurship  4. Digital Infrastructures and Uneven Development in the Global South: Migrant Entrepreneurship, Access, and Institutions  5. Intersecting Inequalities and Migrant Entrepreneurship: Identity Mediation and Continuity in Digitally Governed Markets  Part III – Domains of Practice: Migrant Adaptation and Innovation  6. Transnational Digital Networks and Diasporic Enterprise: A Comparative Synthesis of Colombia and Lebanon  7. Platform Economies and Informal Migrant Enterprise: A Comparative Synthesis across Nigeria, India, and Brazil  8. Financial Navigation at the Margins: Mobile Money, Informal Fintech and Migrant Entrepreneurship in Kenya and Bangladesh  9. Digital Exclusion and Legal Marginality: Regulation and Infrastructure in South Africa and Lebanon  10. Conclusion: Institutional Structuring, Digital Inequality, and Migrant Entrepreneurial Futures

Biography

Tamaralaiyefa Harold Tiemo is Programme Lead for final-year undergraduate Global Business and Entrepreneurship at Global Banking School, UK (affiliated with Oxford Brookes University), leading curriculum development and academic strategy. He also advises on economic policy and enterprise growth in Delta State, Nigeria.