| Abstrakt: |
Entrepreneurship allows immigrants to circumvent obstacles on the conventional route to employment and economic achievement in their adopted country. American scholarship of ethnic entrepreneurship has investigated the diversity of immigrant self-employment experiences, engaging the questions of both why immigrants enter into self-employment at higher rates than natives, and whether their small businesses, often serving other minorities, are to the detriments of native groups that have suffered discrimination. This paper applies these patterns of immigrant entrepreneurship and self-employment to better understand the experience of immigrants in Germany, a country with a considerable history of immigration in the post-war era. A comparison of entrepreneurship finds that long-term residence authorization and the prospect of citizenship serves to advance immigrant economic incorporation through self-employment and entrepreneurship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
