ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the generally uncritical celebration of migrant entrepreneurship has been part and parcel of a broader neoliberal paradigm, described by one leading economist as 'the dominant economic view since the 1980s'. It also highlights how this growth in the volume of migrant firms did not run in parallel to their quality, showing historical continuities in relation to the features of these new businesses, such as their distribution across sectors, size or the nature of employment relations. The chapter ends with an account of a further critique, the entrepreneurial transition, which may be considered an outgrowth of mixed embeddedness, and in effect an attempt to graft an evolutionary time dimension on to it. The Entrepreneurial Transition model brings a new perspective on how migrants navigate the labour market throughout generations, looking at the dynamics of social inclusion and exclusion over time.
