Immigrant and racial minority self-employment in the United States

What is it about?

This article offers an analysis of self-employment among immigrants and the U.S. born second-generation. It examines how racial affiliations and immigrant generational status affect 1) whether or not someone is self-employed and 2) the industry-sector prestige associated with the self-employed in the United States.

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Why is it important?

This work offers the first nationally representative analysis of self-employment among the post-1965 second-generation (U.S. born children of immigrants who came to the US after 1965). This article also introduces a new conceptual framework "racialized incorporation" that builds on theories of assimilation and racialization to interpret the different levels of prestige associated with contemporary self-employment in the United States.