Immigrant entrepreneurship rose dramatically in the last decade of the twentieth century and has had a huge impact on urban life. Through a comparative study of international "advanced economies," this book explores the impact of immigrant business, drawing on in-depth case studies from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the United States and South Africa. How important is the institutional framework of each country in determining the extent and incidence of immigrant entrepreneurship? What role do welfare systems play in immigration and how do they compare and contrast in different countries? In what ways do immigrants use their own resources, make use of existing ones, and create new ones? Paying specific attention to the particularities of each country, it provides an up-to-date review of theoretical debates that have developed rapidly in recent years.

移民创业在二十世纪的最后十年急剧上升，对城市生活产生了巨大影响。通过对国际“发达经济体”的比较研究，本书探讨了移民商业的影响，借鉴了奥地利、比利时、法国、德国、意大利、荷兰、英国、澳大利亚、加拿大、美国和南非的深入案例研究。在确定移民创业的程度和发生率方面，每个国家的体制框架有多重要？福利制度在移民中扮演什么角色？不同国家的福利制度如何比较？移民如何利用自己的资源、利用现有资源和创造新资源？特别注意每个国家的特殊性，它提供了近年来迅速发展的理论辩论的最新回顾。