In Amsterdam today, specialty coffee bars are mushrooming. Does this mean that Amsterdammers have become coffee gluttons from one day to the next? Fact is that the spread of specialty coffee bars is not confined to Amsterdam, but a phenomenon that can be observed in almost every world city, be it Vancouver, Istanbul, or Kunming. […]

IOM Summer School on Migration Tunis, September 10-15, 2018 Jan Rath Further reading Rath, J. & A. Swagerman (2015) ‘Promoting Ethnic Entrepreneurship in European Cities: Sometimes Ambitious, Mostly Absent, Rarely Addressing Structural Features’, International Migration.Published online: 13 NOV 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/imig.12215. Hiebert, D., J. Rath & S. Vertovec (2014) ‘Urban Markets and Diversity: Toward a […]

Promoting Ethnic Entrepreneurship in European Cities: Sometimes Ambitious, Mostly Absent, Rarely Addressing Structural Features by Jan Rath and Anna Swagerman International Migration, 54(1): 152-166 DOI: 10.1111/imig.12215 Abstract An increasing number of immigrants have become entrepreneurial and many governments expect or hope that the ongoing rise of ethnic entrepreneurship will contribute significantly to the integration of […]

Hagemans, I., A. Hendriks, J. Rath and S. Zukin (2015) ‘From greengrocers to cafés. Producing social diversity in Amsterdam’, pp. 90—119 in S. Zukin, Ph. Kasinitz and X. Chen, and research partners. Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai. New York: Routledge.

In this paper we advocate the study of local street markets to explore fundamental issues about the relationship between economy and society. This relationship evolves over time and we believe that it has been recast in an age of increasing cultural diversity and neoliberal state regulatory structures. In street markets we can see how diversity […]

Rath, J. (2014) ‘Europe’s backlash against multiculturalism’, pp. 131-138 in E. Levine and M. Verea (eds), Impacts of the Recent economic Crisis (2008-2009) on International Migration. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Centro de Investigaciones sobre America del Norte. ISBN: 978-607-02-5191-7

New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape edited by Nancy Foner, Jan Rath, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Rogier van Reekum New York: NYU Press, 2014 336 pages, 11 figures and 21 tables, ISBN: 9780814738443   Immigration is dramatically changing major cities throughout the world. Nowhere is this more so than in New York City […]