ETHIC ENTREPRENEURS AS ECONOMY STRATEGY IN ALMERIA (SPAIN)

• Authors: Arjona Garrido Ángeles , Checa Olmos Juan Carlos
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Immigrants going to Almeria (Spain) are mainly joining the intensive farming sector such as greenhouses, though nowadays they are present in other areas such as construction and restaurant industries as well as domestic service. Some immigrants in order to escape and overcome market segmentation run their own ethnic businesses in the county. The ruling hypothesis is that, once an immigrant is established as an autonomous worker in the labor market, a whole ethnic economy develops. Besides this is an alternative option for immigrants instead of going through the segregation and discrimination which are constant in other sectors. The same way, the importance of the reception environments in general through the integration process, and more specifically in the autonomous labor market is highlighted as well.

Keywords

EN

ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION; ETHNIC ECONOMY; LABOR ALTERNATIVE; LABOR MARKET SEGMENTATION

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
• Journal: Polish Sociological Review
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 4(164)
• Pages: 401-415
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Arjona Garrido Ángeles

author

Checa Olmos Juan Carlos

• Ángeles Arjona Garrido, Department of the Social Sciences, University of Almeria, Spain

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA067512