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Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982 Paperback - 1991

by Ivan Light; Edna Bonacich


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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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In the mid-1970s, the people of Los Angeles became aware that a large and rapidly growing Korean colony had formed along Olympic Boulevard about three miles west of the Civic Center.

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  • Title Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982
  • Author Ivan Light; Edna Bonacich
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 3rd printing.
  • Pages 506
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
  • Date 1991-08-08
  • ISBN 9780520076563 / 0520076567
  • Weight 1.52 lbs (0.69 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.97 x 6.05 x 1.12 in (22.78 x 15.37 x 2.84 cm)
  • Reading level 1330
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.62

About the author

Ivan Light is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Edna Bonacich is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside.
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