Seeking<i>Homo Economicus</i>: The Canadian State and the Strange Story of the Business Immigration Program

Ley, David

doi:10.1111/1467-8306.9302010

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“…It is also consistent with the difficulties that immigrant ethnic minority entrepreneurs can face in adapting to a new country as described by Ley (2000). In Sweden, perceived membership of an established business network has been found to be a key factor in organizational emergence (Honig and Davidsson, 2000).…”

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Immigration, In-Migration, Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom

2007

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This paper develops and tests hypotheses concerning the effect of migrant status and ethnicity on propensity to engage in entrepreneurship (defined as new business activity) at the individual level in the UK. The hypotheses are tested using bivariate analysis (Pearson tests of independence) and multivariate analysis (binary logistic regression). Bivariate analysis suggests that new business activity varies with migrant status and ethnicity. Multivariate analysis suggests that migration increases the odds of engaging in new business activity, that the independent effect of ethnicity is marginal, and that being a recent ethnic minority migrant decreases the odds, after controlling for other individual level factors. At the regional level, a preliminary analysis suggests that gross migration flow has a higher correlation with new business activity than other commonly used regional demographic or economic development measures. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007entrepreneurship, migration, ethnicity, immigration, F22, J15, M13, O18, O52, L26.,

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Section: Origin Time In Region and Ethnicitysupporting

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Immigration, In-Migration, Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom

2007

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“…Returning to an earlier question, my research reveals that for a considerable proportion of my respondents, a skilled worker in China is not necessarily one in Canada. It mirrors David Ley's (2003) finding on business immigrants in Canada. As such, it brings into question whether there is perhaps a mismatch between the objectives of the skilled immigration program and its outcome in this case.…”

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“…During the 1980s and 1990s in Vancouver, the popular representation of successful, well-educated immigrant entrepreneurs from Hong Kong was shared by the media, public opinion, government and academics, and resonated with the West Coast representation and self-representation of the Chinese immigrants as homo economicus (Ley 2003). However, it turned out to be a myth: a successful entrepreneur in Asia is not necessarily an entrepreneur at all in Canada (Ley 1999(Ley , 2003. Will the myth of the homo economicus apply to the PRC skilled immigrants, as it did for the Hong Kong business immigrants?…”

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Vancouver’s newest Chinese diaspora: settlers or “immigrant prisoners”?

Teo

2007

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“…Dans un premier temps, ces tensions se cristallisent autour de l'insatisfaction de la province face aux politiques d'immigration du gouvernement fédéral. À cet égard, trois élé-ments sont à souligner : 1) l'impact des changements de politiques de sélec-tion entamés sous Brian Mulroney et consolidés sous Jean Chrétien qui furent, aux yeux de toutes les provinces, une source croissante de désaligne-ment entre des flux migratoires en augmentation et les besoins de leurs économies en matière de main-d'oeuvre (Hiebert, 2006) ; 2) la frustration grandissante et plus spécifique du Manitoba quant à la répartition des nouveaux arrivants entre les provinces et en particulier quant au nombre d'immigrants dirigés vers son territoire ; 3) les modifications apportées aux programmes fédéraux d'immigrants investisseurs qui, dès 1998, rendirent plus difficile l'accès au capital immigrant pour l'ensemble des États provinciaux (Ley, 2003) et qui limitèrent les revenus de la province. Dans un deuxième temps, on assiste à l'échelle de toutes les provinces -et très tôt au Manitoba -à une montée en puissance des angoisses démographiques.…”

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La construction provinciale comme mécanisme : le cas de l’immigration au Manitoba

Paquet¹

2015

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Dans le cadre d’une analyse de la croissance des activités en immigration et en intégration de tous les gouvernements provinciaux depuis le début des années 1990, cet article propose une revitalisation de la notion de « construction provinciale ». En prenant comme point de départ les critiques de Robert A. Young, Philippe Faucher et André Blais (1984), il y est suggéré de repositionner la construction provinciale en tant que mécanisme social. Par le biais de cette approche mécanistique et suivant l’observation du mécanisme dans dix cas, il est avancé que le mécanisme de construction provinciale opère par le biais de trois composantes à l’échelle d’une province – l’activation, la consensualisation et l’institutionnalisation – et produit des effets variables, en fonction du contexte dans lequel il est enclenché. Le potentiel heuristique de cette approche est illustré en retraçant comment un mécanisme de construction provinciale centré sur l’immigration s’est mis en mouvement au Manitoba à partir des années 1990.As part of an analysis of the growth of the activities of the ten provincial governments in the domains of immigration and integration since the 1990s, this paper proposes a revitalization of the concept of “province building.” Taking as its starting point the criticisms of Robert A. Young, Philippe Faucher, and André Blais (1984), it is suggested to reposition province building as a social mechanism. Through this mechanistic approach and building on ten case studies, it proposes that the mechanism of province building operates via three components: activation, consensus building, and institutionalization. Despite these similarities in operation, the mechanism of province building produces variegated effects, depending on the context in which it is engaged. The heuristic potential of this approach is illustrated by tracing how a mechanism of province building centered on immigration has operated in Manitoba since the 1990s

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SeekingHomo Economicus: The Canadian State and the Strange Story of the Business Immigration Program

Cited by 119 publications

References 25 publications

Immigration, In-Migration, Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom

Immigration, In-Migration, Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom

Vancouver’s newest Chinese diaspora: settlers or “immigrant prisoners”?

La construction provinciale comme mécanisme : le cas de l’immigration au Manitoba

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