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Immigrant entrepreneurship and transcultural dynamics – A study of Chinese businesses in the grocery and restaurant sectors in contemporary Panama and Belize

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Author
Smart, Josephine
Smart, Alan
Accessioned
2017-04-06T15:49:27Z
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2017-04-06T15:49:27Z
Issued
2015-05
Subject
Chinese business
Central America
Type
working paper
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Abstract
This paper focuses on Chinese dominance in the grocery and restaurant sectors in Panama and Belize. Drawing on data collected in 2015 and 2013 respectively, we examine emerging and expanding economic and social linkages between China and Central America. Rapid expansion of Chinese ownership in the grocery retail sector in Panama and Belize provides a focus to explore the conditions, practices and specific entanglements of transnational social, cultural, policy and economic links that shape the economic and social integration of recent Chinese immigrants in these two countries, and its impact on local people and society. First, we are interested in whether the scale of a Chinese enterprise operating across cultural boundaries influences business practices. Second, we are interested in how kinship networks, regional ties and dialectical origins affect migration decisions, and how these processes contribute to social, economic and political integration of Chinese immigrants in the host countries.
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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Presented at an invited workshop on “Entrepreneurship, Artisans, and Traders: The Remaking of China-Latin America Economies”, May 2015.
 
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Anthropology and Archaeology
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University of Calgary
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/10086
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http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51902
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