Tianlong You
Hello, world! I am an Associate Professor from Yunnan University and an Affiliate Faculty of the Center for Global Health at Arizona State University. I earned Ph.D. from ASU and J.D. from Hofstra University. I also hold B.A. in Political Science (CUNY) and Graduate Certificate in Anthropology (ASU).
As an immigration sociologist, my research focuses on how the global forces influence immigrant entrepreneurship in little-known emerging county-level economic hubs, particularly in our increasingly digital world. My book project, The Rise and Fall of Digital Development Villages: The Political Economy of China’s Rural E-Commerce in the New Era, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan, explores how China’s dynamic political economy, especially the rise of e-commerce, is transforming thousands of villages in the New Era. My other scholarly work has been published in leading journals such as the American Behavioral Scientist, China Information, Citizenship Studies and Chinese Journal of Communication.
Currently, I am an Associate Editor for Comparative Migration Studies and the executive editor-in-chief for Kuige Sociological Review (“《魁阁学刊》”). I have also served as a guest editor for special issues on China’s borderlands in journals like China Information, China Perspectives, and Citizenship Studies.
Beyond academia, I have contributed to public discourse as a columnist and podcaster, offering insights on global migration issues for various media outlets, including The New York Times and BBC.
Supervisors: Mary Romero; Nancy Jurik; Min Zhou
As an immigration sociologist, my research focuses on how the global forces influence immigrant entrepreneurship in little-known emerging county-level economic hubs, particularly in our increasingly digital world. My book project, The Rise and Fall of Digital Development Villages: The Political Economy of China’s Rural E-Commerce in the New Era, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan, explores how China’s dynamic political economy, especially the rise of e-commerce, is transforming thousands of villages in the New Era. My other scholarly work has been published in leading journals such as the American Behavioral Scientist, China Information, Citizenship Studies and Chinese Journal of Communication.
Currently, I am an Associate Editor for Comparative Migration Studies and the executive editor-in-chief for Kuige Sociological Review (“《魁阁学刊》”). I have also served as a guest editor for special issues on China’s borderlands in journals like China Information, China Perspectives, and Citizenship Studies.
Beyond academia, I have contributed to public discourse as a columnist and podcaster, offering insights on global migration issues for various media outlets, including The New York Times and BBC.
Supervisors: Mary Romero; Nancy Jurik; Min Zhou
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The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on immigrant entrepreneurship since the mid-2000s to examine the changing trends, variations and theoretical advances in immigrant entrepreneurship in Western societies.
Design/methodology/approach
Using the SocIndex and Proquest Business Premium databases, the authors conducted a literature review of about 100 peer-reviewed articles published since the mid-2000s. The authors critically assess the main research findings, identify key concepts and models that have been developed over the past decade, and offer new theoretical insight into the ever-changing global dynamics of immigrant entrepreneurship. Although the focus is on the USA, the authors also include some seminal research based in other Western countries of immigrant reception.
Findings
Based on a critical review of existing research that has been published between 2004 and the present, the authors highlight main trends and variations of the entrepreneurial endeavors among diasporic migrants, address the emerging forces shaping immigrant entrepreneurship, highlight theoretical advances in the field of entrepreneurship studies, and suggest new directions for future research. The authors note that the changing trends and ethnonational variations are caused not only by unequal access to human capital, social capital, financial capital, and cross-border venture capital on the part of individual entrepreneurs, but also by differences in broader structural circumstances in the home country and/or host country and interaction between national/local and transnational/global forces. The authors discuss new theoretical advances, identify gaps and raise questions for future research.
Originality/value
The review offers important insight into the ever-changing local and global dynamics of immigrant entrepreneurship and broadens the established conceptual and theoretical models in the sociology of immigrant/ethnic entrepreneurship.
Keywords
The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on immigrant entrepreneurship since the mid-2000s to examine the changing trends, variations and theoretical advances in immigrant entrepreneurship in Western societies.
Design/methodology/approach
Using the SocIndex and Proquest Business Premium databases, the authors conducted a literature review of about 100 peer-reviewed articles published since the mid-2000s. The authors critically assess the main research findings, identify key concepts and models that have been developed over the past decade, and offer new theoretical insight into the ever-changing global dynamics of immigrant entrepreneurship. Although the focus is on the USA, the authors also include some seminal research based in other Western countries of immigrant reception.
Findings
Based on a critical review of existing research that has been published between 2004 and the present, the authors highlight main trends and variations of the entrepreneurial endeavors among diasporic migrants, address the emerging forces shaping immigrant entrepreneurship, highlight theoretical advances in the field of entrepreneurship studies, and suggest new directions for future research. The authors note that the changing trends and ethnonational variations are caused not only by unequal access to human capital, social capital, financial capital, and cross-border venture capital on the part of individual entrepreneurs, but also by differences in broader structural circumstances in the home country and/or host country and interaction between national/local and transnational/global forces. The authors discuss new theoretical advances, identify gaps and raise questions for future research.
Originality/value
The review offers important insight into the ever-changing local and global dynamics of immigrant entrepreneurship and broadens the established conceptual and theoretical models in the sociology of immigrant/ethnic entrepreneurship.
Keywords