Immigrant Enterprise in Europe and the USA

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Immigrant Enterprise in Europe and the USAAuthor(s): Prodromos Ioannou Panayiotopoulos (aka Mike Pany)\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415353717, 978-0415353717\nSynopsis\nImmigrant-owned enterprises are a highly visible phenomenon, but frequently and increasingly so after 9/11, immigration has been cast in pessimistic and apocalyptic terms which became associated with rising xenophobia and restrictive legislation, such as the Patriot Act in the United States. This book examines the issue of immigration and the contribution immigrant enterprise plays in the economic development of gateway cities such as London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Amsterdam and Miami, cities which appear as the living embodiment of globalization. \n\nQuestioning the extent to which cities are transformed by immigrants themselves, from below, this revealing book points to relationships with wider processes, such as the legal and politic.