ABSTRACT
The chapter, devoted to one of the most interesting aspects of migration and immigrant entrepreneurship, presents a comparison in identity construction processes among the members of five different immigrant groups. The differences between the five groups include the period of arrival in Poland, the number of immigrant entrepreneurs in a group, the reasons for leaving their home country, the purpose of coming, as well as the economic and cultural background of the immigrants. The comparison carried out on these five asymmetrical target groups, selected to reflect the actual situation of the immigrant population in Poland, shows the possibility of a compromise between the culturalist and structuralist perspectives.
Several fragments of compelling interviews with Vietnamese, Chinese, Indian, South Korean and Filipino immigrants are presented to portray the determining aspects of their self-defined identities.
