The intersection of class, race, ethnicity, gender and migration : subtitle a case study of Hong Kong Chinese immigrant women entrepreneurs in Richmond, British Columbia
This dissertation reports on a case study of fifty-eight Hong Kong Chinese immigrant women entrepreneurs in Richmond, British Columbia, documenting their experiences during the process of entrepreneurship after immigration. Semi-structured interviews were conducted between the summer of 1996 and...
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ndltd-UBC-oai-circle.library.ubc.ca-2429-136872018-01-05T17:36:54Z The intersection of class, race, ethnicity, gender and migration : subtitle a case study of Hong Kong Chinese immigrant women entrepreneurs in Richmond, British Columbia Chiang, Frances Shiu-Ching This dissertation reports on a case study of fifty-eight Hong Kong Chinese immigrant women entrepreneurs in Richmond, British Columbia, documenting their experiences during the process of entrepreneurship after immigration. Semi-structured interviews were conducted between the summer of 1996 and January of 1997. Drawing from the literature of ethnic/immigrant entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurship and the intersectional approach, this dissertation explores the complexity and diversity of entrepreneurial experiences in terms of the intersection of class, race, ethnicity, gender and immigration. It delineates the entrepreneurial project by detailing the process from immigration to business start-up, and to running the business. First, this study documents how these immigrant women's entrepreneurial projects were rooted in history, responding to both the cultural and structural impacts of Confucian patriarchy and paternalism, colonialism, imperialism and capitalism. Secondly, this research outlines, discusses and analyzes their entrepreneurial pursuits by documenting the uneven and diverse impact of racialization, ethnicization, gendering and class-ification. Finally, the study investigates how the social divisions of class, race, ethnicity, gender and migration intersect in different ways, as resources and barriers, to produce and reproduce diverse social relations embedded in entrepreneurship. In general, the study found that these women's entrepreneurial projects were more socially embedded than economically motivated, which suggested the primacy of status over class. The impact of co-ethnic informal networks was also noted to be substantial during every stage of the entrepreneurial project. Particularly noticeable as well was the overall insensitivity to gender barriers among these entrepreneurial women. Arts, Faculty of Sociology, Department of Graduate 2009-10-07 2009-10-07 2001 2001-05 Text Thesis/Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13687 eng For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. 20908598 bytes application/pdf |
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This dissertation reports on a case study of fifty-eight Hong Kong Chinese
immigrant women entrepreneurs in Richmond, British Columbia, documenting their
experiences during the process of entrepreneurship after immigration. Semi-structured
interviews were conducted between the summer of 1996 and January of 1997. Drawing
from the literature of ethnic/immigrant entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurship and
the intersectional approach, this dissertation explores the complexity and diversity of
entrepreneurial experiences in terms of the intersection of class, race, ethnicity, gender
and immigration. It delineates the entrepreneurial project by detailing the process from
immigration to business start-up, and to running the business.
First, this study documents how these immigrant women's entrepreneurial projects
were rooted in history, responding to both the cultural and structural impacts of
Confucian patriarchy and paternalism, colonialism, imperialism and capitalism.
Secondly, this research outlines, discusses and analyzes their entrepreneurial pursuits by
documenting the uneven and diverse impact of racialization, ethnicization, gendering and
class-ification. Finally, the study investigates how the social divisions of class, race,
ethnicity, gender and migration intersect in different ways, as resources and barriers, to
produce and reproduce diverse social relations embedded in entrepreneurship.
In general, the study found that these women's entrepreneurial projects were more
socially embedded than economically motivated, which suggested the primacy of status
over class. The impact of co-ethnic informal networks was also noted to be substantial
during every stage of the entrepreneurial project. Particularly noticeable as well was the
overall insensitivity to gender barriers among these entrepreneurial women. === Arts, Faculty of === Sociology, Department of === Graduate |
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The intersection of class, race, ethnicity, gender and migration : subtitle a case study of Hong Kong Chinese immigrant women entrepreneurs in Richmond, British Columbia |
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