ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses specifically on the businesses that female immigrant entrepreneurs have developed in New York City, irrespective of industry. The recent focus on US immigration policy and the local, regional, and federal attempts to identify illegal immigrants. The businesses failed during an economic downturn or why some failed while other did not in the world's largest immigrant melting pot, New York City. The term 'native New Yorker' is somewhat oxymoronic to those who study immigration patterns in America's largest, and most densely populated, metropolis. The chapter also focuses on researching female immigrant entrepreneurship in the Five Boroughs. Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project (FIEP) research associates administered surveys to 51 female immigrant entrepreneurs (FIE), and the recorded data were analyzed using STATA SE 9.2 for Windows. The FIE sample from New York City comprised approximately 40 percent from Queens, 30 percent from the Bronx, 20 percent from Brooklyn, 6 percent from Staten Island, and 4 percent from Manhattan.
