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Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982

By: Ivan Light, Edna Bonacich

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Paperback | 8 August 1991 | Edition Number 1

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A decade in preparation, Immigrant Entrepreneurs offers the most comprehensive case study ever completed of the causes and consequences of immigrant business ownership. Koreans are the most entrepreneurial of America's new immigrants. By the mid-1970s Americans had already become aware that Korean immigrants were opening, buying, and operating numerous business enterprises in major cities. When Koreans flourished in small business, Americans wanted to know how immigrants could find lucrative business opportunities where native-born Americans could not. Somewhat later, when Korean-black conflicts surfaced in a number of cities, Americans also began to fear the implications for intergroup relations of immigrant entrepreneurs who start in the middle rather than at the bottom of the social and economic hierarchy.

Nowhere was immigrant enterprise more obvious or impressive than in Los Angeles, the world's largest Korean settlement outside of Korea and America's premier city of small business. Analyzing both the short-run and the long-run causes of Korean entrepreneurship, the authors explain why the Koreans could find, acquire, and operate small business firms more easily than could native-born residents. They also provide a context for distinguishing clashes of culture and clashes of interest which cause black-Korean tensions in cities, and for framing effective policies to minimize the tensions.

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"A broadly conceived and illuminating analysis of the interplay among a variety of subnational, national, and international factors that produced a particular pattern of immigrant entrepreneurship among Koreans in Southern California. It provides a satisfying analysis of an interesting phenomenon."--Joanne Nagel, "Contemporary Sociology

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Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. ix
References	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Immigrant Entrepreneurs in America	p. 3
Summary	p. 24
The International Context and the Roots of Emigration	p. 25
Cheap Labor in South Korea: The U.S. Role	p. 27
The Role of the Korean Government	p. 68
Emigration From South Korea	p. 102
Conclusion	p. 124
Korean Business in Los Angeles	p. 127
Immigration and Settlement	p. 129
Summary and Conclusion	p. 155
Entrepreneurs and Firms	p. 156
Summary and Conclusion	p. 175
Class and Ethnic Resources	p. 178
Summary	p. 203
Business Location	p. 205
Summary and Conclusion	p. 225
The Retail Liquor Industry	p. 227
Conclusion	p. 242
Raising Capital	p. 243
Conclusion	p. 271
Sources of Entrepreneurship	p. 273
Conclusion	p. 297
Reaction and Solidarity	p. 300
Korean Small Business in American Capitalism	p. 329
The Protection of U.S. Labor Standards	p. 331
Conclusion	p. 351
The Cheapness of Korean Immigrant Small Business	p. 354
Conclusion	p. 370
The Use of Korean Small Business by U.S. Capital	p. 371
Conclusion	p. 400
The Making of Immigrant Small Business	p. 401
Conclusion	p. 420
Conclusion	p. 423
The Costs of Immigrant Entrepreneurship	p. 425
Appendix: Telephone Survey, 1977	p. 437
Notes	p. 439
References	p. 463
Index	p. 487
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