Hack-polay, Dieu (2019) ’Migrant Enclaves: Disempowering Economic Ghettos or Sanctuaries of Opportunities for Migrants ? – A Double Lens Dialectic Analysis. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy . ISSN 1750-6204
Full content URL: http://doi.org/10.1108/JEC-01-2019-0008
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Item Status: | Live Archive |
Abstract
This article examines the migrant dilemma about operating extensively in migrant enclaves versus integration in host communities.
The article is a critical literature review contrasting views and perspectives of the role of migrant enclaves in migrant integration and contribution in new societies. Research in the area of ethnic enclaves has been polarised: on the one hand the optimists argue the critical benefits of migrant and ethnic community networks, thus downplaying potential drawbacks of such networks and the disadvantage externally imposed on migrants; on the other hand, the pessimists overemphasise the disadvantages of ethnic enclaves, portraying them as ghettos of alienation.
Based on the Social Solidarity Integration model and Immigrant-host and social interaction theory, the article posits that migrant community networks could intentionally or unintentionally engender cultural alienation, worsening an already precarious educational, cultural and economic exclusion. Thus, migrants could remain in lower societal roles and experience limited upward social mobility if they operate exclusively within migrant and ethnic networks. However ethnic enclaves, at the same time, offer the initial psychological nurturing on which future successful socialisation work with migrant communities can be build.
From a research angle, the theorisation of migrant enclave requires a new approach, which identifies dynamism and contextualisation as central to the debate.
From a policy perspective, the research suggests the rethinking of the role of community support systems (and the wider enclave debate). The organisational implications the research suggests a shift of the organisational paradigm in the way migrant organisations manage themselves and support members in the enclave.
This article’s contribution is to take a duality approach to studying the ethnic enclave and posits that this will engender effective social policy that helps reduce economic inequality.
Keywords: | Migrant, Social exclusion, Integration, Economic inequality, self-exclusion, Ethnic enclave |
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Subjects: | L Social studies > L100 Economics L Social studies > L400 Social Policy L Social studies > L330 Ethnic studies N Business and Administrative studies > N100 Business studies L Social studies > L300 Sociology |
Divisions: | Lincoln International Business School |
ID Code: | 35974 |
Deposited On: | 16 May 2019 09:26 |
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