East Indians in small business: Middleman minority or ethnic enclave?

作者: Martin N. Marger

DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1990.9976207

关键词: Ethnic enclaveEast indianEthnic communityPolitical economySmall businessEthnic groupIndividualismPolitical science

摘要: Abstract The East Indian small business class of Toronto is examined, using middleman minority and ethnic enclave models as an analytic framework. most apparent feature this entrepreneurial group its bifurcated structure: one element linked to the community while another virtually independent it. While some features minorities are evident, neither nor patterns enterprise clearly apparent. entrepreneurs follow a more individualistic path, engendered by absence spatially‐concentrated relatively unhindered accessibility sector majority economy.

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