Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the Americas

Clara Margaça is an Assistant Professor at Lusofona University, Porto University Center, Portugal.Andreas Walmsley is an Associate Professor in Business at Plymouth Marjon University, UK.Helena Knörr is a Professor of Organizational Leadership at Point Park University and a Professor of Entrepreneurship at doinGlobal, a Global Leadership network, USA.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 – Live, Work and Pray in the New York Metropolitan Area: Brazilian Immigrants and Ethnic-Religious Entrepreneurship. Donizete Rodrigues and Sidney GreenfieldChpater 2 – Religious system, challenges and support for immigrant entrepreneurship "The immigration of Brazilians in the city of Lowell, MA, USA". Evaldo Vicente and Cleverton Duarte EpormucenaChapter 3 – Entrepreneurship of Immigrants beyond Ethnic Enclaves: Determining Factors. Radjabu Mayuto and Zhan SuChapter 4 – Migration factors that influence local entrepreneurship in Baja California, as a Mexican border state with the state of California in the United States of America. Alfredo Valadez-García, Josué Aarón López-Leyva, Sialia Karina Mellink-Méndez and Gloria Janeth Murillo-AviñaChapter 5 – The entrepreneur migrant woman and her emancipatory (im)possibilities in Brazilian context. Suélen Cristina de Miranda and Cecília Pescatore AlvesChapter 6 – Wine entrepreneurs: Italian immigrants and the wine-making industry in Southern Brazil. Antonio de RuggieroChapter 7 – Identity and agency of small businesses founded by German immigrants´ descendants in Santa Catarina State, South of Brazil. Hilka Pelizza Vier Machado, Ieda Margarete Oro, Sayonara de Fátima Teston , Fábio Lazzarotti and Jörg FreilingChapter 8 – Migrant ethnic groups: South–South entrepreneurs in Antofagasta (Chile). Emilio Ricci, Gianni Romaní Chocce, and Luis Miguel Rodrigo BenitoChapter 9 - South–South Migration and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Chile.Yamil Tala, Mauricio Apablaza and Vesna MandakovicConclusionIndex