Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71672 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7332
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In seeking economic immigrants, especially those who are skilled, entrepreneurial and with capital to invest, a settler country such as New Zealand has assumed that national and city labour markets/economies will gain by adding to the human capital pool as well as creating new 'economic' activities of various sorts. Economic participation, both as labour but also as typically small business owners, often reflects the nature of mixed embeddedness (Kloosterman and Rath 2003) and especially the relational embeddedness (Portes, cited in, Vertovec 2009) of particular immigrant groups. This is most apparent in relation to social and economic networks, the deployment of human capital, immigrant engagement strategies and transnational activities. Using the concept of mixed embeddedness, this paper examines the strategies and outcomes for migrant entrepreneurs from the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, India, South Africa and the United Kingdom, drawing upon a largely qualitative analysis of immigrant employers from these groups.
Subjects: 
migration
relational embeddedness
structural embeddedness
mixed embeddedness
New Zealand
immigrant entrepreneurs
JEL: 
J15
J24
J39
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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