INTEGRATION THROUGH SMALL-SCALE BUSINESS: THE CASE OF ENTREPRENEURS WITH TURKISH “MIGRANT” BACKGROUND IN GERMANY

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Self-employment as an economic activity has a considerable matter in the migration context. It is associated with social, cultural, political, and economic spheres in which migrants and people with migration background are situated. Migrant entrepreneurship as a particular form of self-employment is related to the transnational labour market since it reflects both these spheres in the host country and immigrant networks and organisations within and across borders. In the migration literature, migrant entrepreneurship is discussed in terms of ethnic niches, market ghettoisation, and integration. On the 60th anniversary of the Turkish-German Labour Recruitment Agreement, this thesis analyses small-scale family businesses through the processes of socio-economic integration from the mixed embeddedness approach. Migrant entrepreneurship is characterised by embeddedness in market and state relations. Ethnic relations and resources of entrepreneurs and opportunity structure in Germany, as well as socio-economic integration, are considered by relying on how migrants identify and frame them. Following the historical roots of migratory processes and the transformation of labour activities of migrants from Turkey, this thesis argues that small-scale business ownership positively impacts socio-economic integration. It argues that ethnic relations are usually realised in symbolic forms. Multiculturalism, flexibility, and family embeddedness are discussed as instrumental features intrinsic to small-scale businesses of migrants from Turkey. Mixed embeddedness is analysed in this respect by conducting ethnographic fieldwork with 23 in-depth interviews. Further research is needed to elaborate intercommunal ties of migrant entrepreneurship with different immigrant communities.

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Turkish-German migration, migrant entrepreneurship, mixed embeddedness, integration, transnational space.

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M. Çelik, “INTEGRATION THROUGH SMALL-SCALE BUSINESS: THE CASE OF ENTREPRENEURS WITH TURKISH “MIGRANT” BACKGROUND IN GERMANY,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.