Migrants from underdeveloped countries started to enter Italy by the mid-1970s, but the
migratory inflow became important only during the second half of the 1980s, when it was …

The endemic weakness of the Sicilian productive system is to a great extent due to its
fragmentation in very small enterprises, technologically frail with a low propension to …

The purpose of this study is to understand how the Turkish immigrant community in
Paterson, New Jersey, obtains and retains jobs in wage employment and enters into and …

2 Getting By or Getting Rich? other authors, better off segments of the urban population may
also engage in illegal activities offering opportunities for rapid enrichment, while their …

Though this article's goal is to present and analyse several key characteristics of the social
and economic insertion process of Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in Italy, the fieldwork …

The paper presents an international review of the main interpretations of the phenomenon of
the enterprises started up by immigrants. A distinction is made between interpretations …

Italy is one of the European countries hosting the largest number of Chinese immigrants. In
the early 1980’ s, the first Chinese new migrants came to Italy, where they would find an …

150 IMMIGRANTS AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY unemployment levels (standing at an
annual average rate of 7.2 per cent in 1995 [Eurostat 1996a]) mean there is less competition …

This paper discusses the findings of an ethnographic study on the relationships between
Italian and immigrants in their work environments and outside. The study was carried out in …

PIP:" The text presents an analysis of immigrants' insertion within the Italian labour market....
Two main sectors of activities have provided them with... opportunities of insertion: domestic …