...relative to the local people in the host society, in self-employment" (p. 2). Focusing mainly on empirical case studies of several Chinese communities within Canada, Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business explores the coping and adaptation mechanisms employed by these communities in response to racial discrimination and alienation from the greater Canadian society. Such mechanisms include a retreat into the community and a dependence on social and kin networks. Kwok-bun is especially interested in looking at how ethnic enterprises and ethnic entrepreneurialism are the unintended results of these...

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