Wednesday
25
JUN

06:00 PM

Entrepreneurship as a Means of Individual Social Mobility and Community Building: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Chinese and Korean Communities in Los Angeles, USA

Prof. Dr. Min Zhou (UCLA, US)

Abstract:
This presentation offers a comparative analysis of immigrant Chinese and Korean entrepreneurship with a focus on examining how entrepreneurship produces intended and unintended consequences pertaining to individual social mobility and community building. I show that, while entrepreneurship is a defining characteristic of immigrant communities in the US, it is shaped by different circumstances of emigration from the sending country and migrant reception in the host country. I also show that entrepreneurship not only enhances an individual’s economic opportunities but also creates sociocultural resources by way of diasporic development.

Biography:
Min Zhou is Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies and Director of the Asia Pacific Center at UCLA. Her main research areas are in migration and development, race and ethnicity, Chinese diaspora, and the sociology of Asia and Asian America, and she has published widely in these areas. She is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Streaming / Video URL

https://heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/upyt-pmtv-ujq4-zw79

Organizer

Prof. Dr. Anja Senz, Institut für Sinologie

Homepage Organizer

https://ostasien-aktuell.uni-heidelberg.de

Contact

Ostasien Aktuell

Contact URL

https://ostasien-aktuell.uni-heidelberg.de

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