The agency of immigrant entrepreneurs: Biographies of the self-employed in ethnic and occupational niches of the urban labor market

Journal of Anthropological Research

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 383-397

  Brettell, Caroline B ^a   Alstatt, Kristoffer E ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Biographical embeddedness; Entrepreneurship; Ethnic niche; Immigrants; Occupational niche

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948902305     PISSN: 00917710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3998/jar.0521004.0063.304     Document Type: Article

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