Global Embeddedness: Situating Migrant Entrepreneurship within an Asymmetrical, Global Context
Global Embeddedness: Situating Migrant Entrepreneurship within an Asymmetrical, Global Context

Summary/Abstract: Historically, approaches within the field of migrant entrepreneurship have almost exclusively focused onmigration to nation-states in the Global North. Despite more-recent studies extending the scope tomigrants’ home countries – and even third-country locations – they have nonetheless remained rooted inSouth–North migratory contexts and, subsequently, have been mainly theorised based on the concept ofpersistent power imbalances internationally. Indeed, studies of migrant entrepreneurship in reverse(North–South) migratory contexts have exposed a number of assumptions implicit within these approaches.What is needed, therefore, is a theoretical approach which can account for the global asymmetry hithertooverlooked in the field of migrant entrepreneurship. This paper aims to do exactly that, offering the conceptof ‘global embeddedness’, which situates the phenomenon of migrant entrepreneurship within a wider,asymmetrical global environment and, in so doing, provides a way of accounting for variations in migrantentrepreneurship found outside of the Global North.

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