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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Ethnic Enclaves"”.
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Should I stay or should i go? : residential mobility in ethnic enclaves in Lawrence, Massachusetts
… for community-based organizations (CBOs) in ethnic enclaves, especially those CBOs that assist enclavers--residents of ethnic enclaves-in building assets such as increased earnings or English fluency. The theory suggests that as immigrants build assets they are more likely to leave ethnic …
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Restaurant Crowdfunding Activities and African American Restaurateurs' Financing Experiences: From Macroeconomic Policies to Ethnic Enclaves
… conventional capital market. The study pioneers ethnic minority entrepreneurial finance literature by uncovering relationships between cultural, social, and economic capital to tackle African American restaurateurs’ funding challenges. By examining macro- and micro-level attributes, restaurant …
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The Life and Death of Urban Ethnic Enclaves: Gentrification and Ethnic Fragmentation in Brooklyn's 'Polish Town'
… and market-led gentrification in a fragmenting ethnic neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn– once home to a vibrant Polish community, now at risk of losing its social character as a traditional ethnic enclave. Extending Albert O. Hirschman’s theory of action to the Polish community in Greenpoint, …
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Exploring critical issues faced by Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in the U.K
… et al., 2015). Furthermore, per literature, co-ethnic enclaves can assist new immigrants by offering financial and advisory support and bringing new opportunities (Zhang et al., 2016; Zolin et al., 2016). Extant literature chronicles local language skills (e.g., Azmat & Fujimoto, 2016; Sui et …
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Chinese American Women, Identity and Education: A Qualitative Study
… and negotiating with the interplay of race, ethnicity, class, and gender. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-seven Chinese American women from two universities located on the East Coast, I argue that their segmented assimilation processes involving ongoing negotiations between …
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Segregation by design? : the evolution of an Islamic community in Michigan
… group and a large number of subcultural enclaves. The coexistence of these groups leads to tensions between the mainstream culture and the various subcultures, in this case, the immigrant ones. Transformation of the ethnic enclaves occurs over generations of interchange with the …
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The Dark Underbellies of the Littles: A History of the Indo-Guyanese Diaspora, Race and Identity
… as well as the development of the Indo-Guyanese ethnic enclave, “Little Guyana,” located in Queens, New York. This thesis moves beyond the romanticized image of ethnic enclaves in New York City and argues that while perhaps picturesque on the surface, Little Guyana is the result of the fraught …
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Immigrant Communities, Human Capital Externalities And Labor Market Outcomes
… to our understanding of the economic impact of ethnic communities on immigrants while also addressing issues associated with the identification and measurement of ethnic enclaves. Immigrant enclaves provide access to ethnic goods and trade partners with shared language and culture, potentially …
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Little Saigons in the US: A story about community and adaptation from 1988 to 2024
… refugees clustered together and formed enclaves, which soon became known as Little Saigons. While the first Little Saigon was officially recognized in 1988, they began to take shape in the preceding decade. Since their development, Vietnamese enclaves have encountered various challenges, …
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The Rise of a Hispanic Enclave in Davidson County, Tennessee
… new Hispanic immigrants have created distinct enclaves. These enclaves provide almost all needs for the Hispanic community, such as shopping, healthcare, legal assistance, dining, employment, entertainment, and religion. This study examines the creation and functionality of the burgeoning …
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Homeownership of Latinos in Richmond: An evaluation of the homeownership to community participation model
… is particularly interesting as Latinos are new ethnic community members to a city that has historically been defined by differences in race (black and white), additionally, unlike most studies done on Latinos in their traditional places of settlement, ethnic enclaves in Richmond have yet to …
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US Labor Demand: a Discourse Analysis on the "Hidden Force" behind Illegal Immigration
… pay into at the US taxpayers expense. They form ethnic enclaves, and those who remain in the US resist assimilation into US culture. So the story goes. This thesis challenges this dominant ideology, a subset of the illegal immigration discourse, by documenting decades of immigration law in the US …
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A Jail Is Not Social Housing: making new grounds for Chinatown
… homes, find themselves Downtown and within ethnic enclaves, where homeownership is historically and canonically low. At this site, generations of indigenous tribes, freed African communities, and various immigrant communities endure a cycle of settlement, disenfranchisement, and eventually, …
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Rural Chinese Restaurants: Current Perspectives on Family and Business Structure
… used for analyzing the data. This study explored ethnic enclaves, blocked mobility thesis, institutional completeness, and apprenticeship theory as theoretical concepts. The rural Chinese restaurateurs interviewed did not demonstrate enclave characteristics due to a lack of an ethnic Chinese …
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Green-LIT: Shipping Containers in Your Backyard
… Similarly, where older residents in historic ethnic enclaves could openly embrace new residents - from wherever so long as they fight alongside them to preserve a way of life dependent on place as much as space - instead cling to their trade in the invisible commodity of cultural heritage …
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Essays on Intergenerational Cultural Assimilation
… lead them to reside with neighbors of the same ethnicity. Ethnic segregation may be an outcome of such sorting. I develop a theoretical model of intergenerational cultural transmission that incorporates moving and neighbor choices. I prove how these choices can generate a dynamic equilibrium in …
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Diversifying Business Development: Exploring Opportunities to Attract Latino Entrepreneurs to West Virginia
… include financial funding, racial issues, ethnic enclaves, and getting along with people from other cultures. This study builds upon that tradition by exploring Latino business owners in West Virginia. The study will address the following research questions: · Why are there so few …
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Branding Korea or Marketing Ethnicity?: Manhattan’s Koreatown as a Transclave in the Global Economy
… of Manhattan’s Koreatown into a new type of ethnic enclave, a space for “Seoul-style” consumption. The space has received intensive investment by the Korean government, cultivating it as an entertainment space as an opportunity for nation branding and promotion of Korean culture and products …
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The Digital Diaspora in Sunset Park: Information and Communication Technologies in Brooklyn’s Chinatown
… to do this despite the severe limitations that ethnic enclave employment places on their time and opportunities, in part because of heavy use of affordable internet cafes in the neighborhood. Building on a growing body of literature on new media and diaspora, this thesis explores the …