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Tafech, Hourie. Contextualizing refugee entrepreneurship in cities in the United States: a four-case analysis. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-cbfe-1552

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TitleContextualizing refugee entrepreneurship in cities in the United States: a four-case analysis
NameTafech, Hourie (author); Farmbry, Kyle (chair); Rutgers University; Graduate School - Newark
Date Created2022
Other Date2022-10 (degree)
SubjectEntrepreneurship, Refugees -- United States, Businesspeople -- United States
Extent236 pages : illustrations
DescriptionThis dissertation examined the factors that impact refugee entrepreneurship and economic inclusion in the US cities. It is important to carry out this research because it addresses a societal need to better understand the conditions that are experienced by refugees in the United States today. If we are to successfully challenge the general perception that refugees are burdens on their host countries, we need to conduct more evidence-based studies to demonstrate that refugees make meaningful economic contributions to their host economies when conditions permit. The theoretical framework of this dissertation is derived from the mixed-embeddedness approach established by Kloosterman and Rath (1999) and forms of capital theory by Nee and Sanders (2001). These afford ways of conceptualizing the agency and institutional factors that affect refugee entrepreneurship across cities in the United States. It uses a case-study methodology to examine the factors that impact the levels of refugee entrepreneurship in four cities in the United States. The cities in question are Utica, New York; St. Louis, Missouri; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Houston, Texas. Each case study focuses on one of these cities. The findings show that the Individual resources made of different forms of capital: social, financial, cultural, and human combined with institutional structure made of rules and regulations, socio-economic factors, socio-cultural factors, regeneration programs, and political context, impact the quality and quantity of refugee entrepreneurship in the US cities. Additionally, to create economically empowered refugees and efficient institutions in which they operate, there should be a collaboration and partnerships among several stakeholders, namely, federal resettlement office, state government, city government, resettlement agencies, non-profit organizations, and refugee entrepreneurs themselves.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-cbfe-1552
LanguageEnglish
CollectionGraduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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