Migrant Entrepreneurship: Mapping Cross-Border Mobilities and Exploring the Role of Spatial Mobility Capital
Responsable du projet |
Yvonne Riaño
Etienne Piguet |
Collaborateur |
Christina Mittmasser
Yvonne Riaño Laure Sandoz |
Résumé |
Social and technological transformations, including highly
diversified migrant populations and facilitated international
travel and communication, have intensified the phenomenon of
cross-border migrant entrepreneurship. This involves migrants
physically moving themselves across local and transnational borders
for business opportunities, as well as migrants running
transnational businessesfrom their places of residence. This
project will map the diverse cross-border mobilities of first
generation migrant entrepreneurs and examine whether spatial
mobility constitutes an asset or not for migrant entrepreneurship,
and under what conditions. It uses mixed methods and includes case
studies from Switzerland, Spain and South America. The main
research questions are: (a) What types of capacities for spatial
mobility exist among migrant entrepreneurs, and why do such
differences exist? (b) To what extent does the capacity of spatial
mobility constitute an asset for migrant entrepreneurship and the
livelihoods of migrants, and under what conditions can it be
transformed into social and economic capital? Studying cross-border
migrant entrepreneurship offers a unique opportunity to understand
the shift from long-term and permanent migration to increasingly
more temporary and fluid mobilities, thus advancing our empirical
and theoretical understanding of the Migration-Mobility Nexus. |
Mots-clés |
Migrant entrepreneurship |
Type de projet | Mandat de recherche |
Domaine de recherche | Géographie |
Source de financement | Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique, NCCR - on the move |
Etat | En cours |
Début de projet | 11-2018 |
Fin du projet | 10-2022 |
Contact | Danielle Tchakounte |