Migrant Entrepreneurship in Greece: Diversity of Pathways for Emerging Ethnic Business Communities in Thessaloniki

Labrianidis, Lois; Hatziprokopiou, Panos

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“…Their integration and participation in the different domains of social and economic life is significantly affected by their regularization, whereas their settlement appears to follow the social geography of the city, which may well counter segregation trends fuelled by exclusion by the locals. In turn, immigrants' cultural proximity with the natives impacts their visibility and adaptability in the city (Labrianidis and Hatziprokopiou 2010). However, spatial proximity does not lead to social proximity, as inclusion and exclusion operate differently in different domains and levels.…”

Section: Thessalonikimentioning

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Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World

Vathi

2015

IMISCOE Research Series

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This series is the official book series of IMISCOE, the largest network of excellence on migration and diversity in the world. It comprises publications which present empirical and theoretical research on different aspects of international migration. The authors are all specialists, and the publications a rich source of information for researchers and others involved in international migration studies.The series is published under the editorial supervision of the IMISCOE Editorial Committee which includes leading scholars from all over Europe. The series, which contains more than eighty titles already, is internationally peer reviewed which ensures that the book published in this series continue to present excellent academic standards and scholarly quality. Most of the books are available open access.For information on how to submit a book proposal, please visit: http://www. imiscoe.org/publications/how-to-submit-a-book-proposal. Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. All commercial rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher's location, in its current version, and permission for commercial use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for commercial use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.Printed on acid-free paper PrefaceComparative research on migration is a growing trend in academia. Yet very few studies that compare migrants and their descendants across different sites exist. Study of the integration of the children of migrants-the so-called 'second-generation'-is itself a recent trend in social science research and migration literature. Their integration is thought to be an important indicator of the degree of integration of immigrants into a specific society. This book offers an in-depth, qualitative analysis of the integration of Albanian migrants and their descendants in Europe. It is also the first full-l...

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Section: Thessalonikimentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World

Vathi

2015

IMISCOE Research Series

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“…The complexity is added by the difficulty of evaluating the immediate effect of the global economic crisis as researchers do not manage to follow the rapidly changing labour market situation and the related developments in migration law (Ghosh 2013). Even the most recently published studies of HSM [for example, Cuban (2013), Labrianidis (2010) and Halkias et al (2010)] are actually based on fieldwork and/or desk research conducted, in the majority of cases, either before or at the very beginning of the crisis. That is why it has been so far very problematic to find answers to a number of strategically important questions.…”

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Female High-Skill Migration in the 21st Century: The Challenge of the Recession

Isaakyan¹,

Triandafyllidou²

2016

High-Skill Migration and Recession

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Anna Triandafyllidou 'When I was packing for Greece, I thought that my MBA from Harvard would allow me to easily find a good job in Athens, something like the chief executive officer or, at least, the project manager in a large firm'. Georgia, who is now 47, moved from Boston to Greece in the mid 1990s, following her Greek husband. Since then, she has been helping her father-inlaw with their family poultry business in a small Greek city, switching between the duties of their family-owned shop assistant and the housewife. Her conational Vicky, who had grown up in Washington DC and received the law degree from the UCLA, also moved to Southern Europe as a marriage-migrant to reunite with her Italian husband in Rome in the late 1990s and to discover eventually that she 'has always been no more than a housewife' there. Like Georgia, she admits, 'It was not only the new language that I had to master. It was everything: the children, the in-laws, the local economy and the growing corruption. Many doors were closed for me from the very beginning'. A former business executive from Miami Odette, who arrived in Greece only five years ago and who has been unemployed all this time, concludes, 'It is both very funny and sad to see that our American degrees have not been really demanded here'. The career-failure stories of these women-migrants are not exceptional. According to the Eurostat release from 2011, almost 30 % of all tertiary educated migrants in Europe (which is around 10 million) are over-qualified and de-scaled women of the active working age. How does it happen that highly educated, professional women like Vickie, Georgia and Odette enthusiastically engage in a migration project yet end up under-employed and de-skilled in their destination countries? Feminist scholarship shows that for them, there are indeed many factors that may adversely affect integration and future professional development in the new country. Understanding this, Odette confesses that she sees no future for herself in Greece in the milieu of the global financial crisis and seeks to persuade her Greek husband to relocate back to the United States. Studies conducted by feminist scholars indicate that Odette is far from unique in her pessimism, especially when it comes to the effect of the crisis upon both women and skilled migrants. The impact of the global financial crisis of the new millennium and related economic austerity measures on high-skill migration (HSM) is frequently mentioned in the scholarly literatures and policy texts (

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“…Hatziprokopiou (2008) emphasizes in his conclusion that "providing all migrants with stability, security and rights is a prerequisite for their effective labor market integration on equal terms with their Greek counterparts." Deeper insights provide Hatziprokopiou and Labrianidis (2010) about the migrant entrepreneurship in Thessaloniki, the second biggest city in Greece. They point out that the accuracy of official data is rather limited and their reliability is problematic.…”

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“…59 interviews (tracked down through the snowball sampling method) could be made which collected quantitative and qualitative data about "profile and background of business and their owners, their activities, finances, employees and clientele, reasons for starting up and perceptions about progress, problems and prospects." Language barriers tried to be reduced by translators and face-to-face interviews (Hatziprokopiou, Labrianidis 2010). The motivation of migrant entrepreneurs in Greece was investigated by Liargovas and Skandalin (2012).…”

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Migrant Entrepreneurship in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities

Davidavičienė¹,

Lolat²

2016

9th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2016”

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Abstract. In the last decades a handful of scientist investigated the topic of migrant entrepreneurship in Europe. Therefore historical background, reasons of migrant self-employment or the impacts for host countries, home countries and at the European level could be identified. Still nowadays, there exist no corporate understanding of the term and the limited statistics do not use common definitions or measurements. The purpose of this article identify migrant self-employment in Europe challenges and identify migrant friendly EU countries in terms of e-services for new business establishment. Consequently existing literature and institutions were taken into consideration, analysis of statistics and countries e-government development were analysed.

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Migrant Entrepreneurship in Greece: Diversity of Pathways for Emerging Ethnic Business Communities in Thessaloniki

Cited by 20 publications

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Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World

Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World

Female High-Skill Migration in the 21st Century: The Challenge of the Recession

Migrant Entrepreneurship in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities

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