Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982

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University of California Press, 8 aug. 1991 - 495 pagini
A decade in preparation, Immigrant Entrepreneurs offers the most comprehensive case study ever completed of the causes and consequences of immigrant business ownership. Koreans are the most entrepreneurial of America's new immigrants. By the mid-1970s Americans had already become aware that Korean immigrants were opening, buying, and operating numerous business enterprises in major cities. When Koreans flourished in small business, Americans wanted to know how immigrants could find lucrative business opportunities where native-born Americans could not. Somewhat later, when Korean-black conflicts surfaced in a number of cities, Americans also began to fear the implications for intergroup relations of immigrant entrepreneurs who start in the middle rather than at the bottom of the social and economic hierarchy.

Nowhere was immigrant enterprise more obvious or impressive than in Los Angeles, the world's largest Korean settlement outside of Korea and America's premier city of small business. Analyzing both the short-run and the long-run causes of Korean entrepreneurship, the authors explain why the Koreans could find, acquire, and operate small business firms more easily than could native-born residents. They also provide a context for distinguishing clashes of culture and clashes of interest which cause black-Korean tensions in cities, and for framing effective policies to minimize the tensions.

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs in America
21
The U S Role
27
The Role of the Korean Government
68
Emigration from South Korea
102
Entrepreneurs and Firms
156
Class and Ethnic Resources
187
Business Location
205
The Retail Liquor Industry
227
Reaction and Solidarity
300
The Protection of U S Labor Standards
331
The Cheapness of Korean Immigrant Small Business
354
The Use of Korean Small Business by U S Capital
371
The Making of Immigrant Small Business
401
The Costs of Immigrant Entrepreneurship
425
Notes
439
References
463

Raising Capital
243
Sources of Entrepreneurship
273

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