Jan Rath - Research Jumpstation

My research projects

The Immigrant Tourism Industry:
Urban Cultural Diversity and Socio-Economic Development
An international comparative project on the immigrant tourist economy.

Sociale Mobilieit van Individuen, Groepen en Buurten

Bedrijvige Wijken in Bedrijvige Steden. Over de Dynamiek van Wijkeconomieen

De Kracht van Openbare Ruimte

Urban Studies Research Priority Area

The Immigrant Restaurant Industry
Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Vancouver- Amsterdam- Sydney
with special attention to Chinese restaurants.

Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Four Dutch Cities:
Mixed Embeddedness
A research programme of immigrant entrepreneurship in the four main cities, sponsored by the Dutch Foundation for Scientific Research NWO.

Recently completed projects

European Research on Islam and Muslim Communities
A project commissioned by New York City's Russell Sage Foundation.

International Network 'Working on the Fringes'
(International network of researchers of immigrant businesses in the (in)formal economy, sponsored by the European Commission and the European Science Foundation).

Werk en Werkgelegenheid in de Buurt
Project in opdracht van het Ministerie van Volkshuisvesting, Ruimtelijke Ordening en Milieubeheer, Directoraat-Generaal Wonen, Directie Strategie.

The Immigrant Garment Industry
An international comparative study of the immigrant garment industry in The Netherlands, France, Britain, and the USA.

The Immigrant Construction Industry
Project on the non-formation of an immigrant niche in the Dutch construction industry.

Financing and Financial Management
An exploratory study commissioned by EMPORIUM.

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The output of my projects

Overview of my publications
Bookzone
Racism
Islam/Muslims
General issues
Immigrant education
Miscellaneous issues
Migration/ethnic studies
Immigrant entrepreneurship
Immigrant political participation

Another book

Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City
(With contributions by C. Michael Hall, Susan Fainstein, Kevin Fox Gotham, Daniel Hiebert, Jock Collins, Trevor Jones, Jan Rath, Monder Ram, M. Margarida Marques, Marilyn Halter, Hugh Bartling, Gastón Alonso, Volkan Aytar, and others).

Go to the publisher's web page,
or order the book directly from Amazon.com

Again another book

Unravelling the Rag Trade: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Seven World Cities
(With contributions by Nancy Green, Ivan Light, Monder Ram, Alex Stepick, Guillermo Grenier, Mike Pany, Yu Zhou, Marja Dreef, Stephan Raes and many others).

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University of Amsterdam				Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES)
Jan Rath Professor of Urban Sociology Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology Director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) University of Amsterdam
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