My new edited book is finally out! Titled Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Cities: Global Perspectives and published by Springer, it engages the topic from various academic perspectives and theoretical frameworks, on scales ranging from local, to urban, metropolitan, as well as transnational. It covers 16 case study cities from 14 countries, with a particular emphasis onContinue reading “New book: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Cities”
Category Archives: Immigration
GIRN is official!
GIRN – Georgia Immigration Research Network is now officially formed with its website hosted by Kennesaw State University. Please check it out here and stay tuned of our activities. Atlanta Studies news story here 🙂
Welcoming Cities in a Snapshot
Our new report on welcoming cities provides a comprehensive view of their geographic location, timeline, sociodemographic characteristics and policy areas. Please check out our report for the Center for State and Local Finance here . There are also great work on immigrants and community development done by researchers at other Atlanta based universities like GaTech and Kennesaw State. More infoContinue reading “Welcoming Cities in a Snapshot”
Welcoming Cities Forum at GSU
Come join us for a forum on Welcoming Cities – A Dialogue between Research and Policy on Wednesday, March 9 to hear the latest research on immigrant communities in Atlanta, the new immigrant-integrating initiative and its implementation in Atlanta http://aysps.gsu.edu/event/welcoming-cities-a-dialogue-between-research-and-policy/49
Historical trend on the self-employment rates of immigrants in the U.S.
Calculations from the Decennial Census and American Community Survey Data. Read our full blog on immigrant entrepreneurship and the economy posted on The Hill here
Minority- and Immigrant-Owned Businesses in Economy
Two of my recent new publications examine the scale and impact of minority-owned and immigrant-owned businesses in the local and global economy. A report for the Center for State and Local Finance (CSLF) looks at the growing trend of these businesses in the state of Georgia and its role in employment, revenues, payroll, etc. (seeContinue reading “Minority- and Immigrant-Owned Businesses in Economy”
Kauffman report on high-tech immigrant entrepreneurs
Which metros have a high concentration of high-tech immigrant entrepreneurs and why? Check out our new report for the Kauffman Foundation: http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/2014/03/study-of-us-metros-with-most-high-tech-immigrant-entrepreneurs-provide-lessons-for-other-regions
Welcoming Atlanta
During a luncheon at Georgia Terrace Hotel I attended last Tuesday, October 22, Mayor Kasim Reed announced that City of Atlanta will be joining other 21 cities around the country to become a Welcoming City to immigrants. Welcoming Cities and Counties is an iniative of Welcoming America, headquartered in Decatur. Read the Press Release here and checkContinue reading “Welcoming Atlanta”
Dr. Cathy Yang Liu 