Asia comes to Main Street and may learn to speak Spanish: Globalization in a poor neighborhood in Worcester

Title: Asia comes to Main Street and may learn to speak Spanish: Globalization in a poor neighborhood in Worcester

Authors: Ross, Robert J.S. and Driscoll Derickson, Kate

Publication: Local Knowledge: Worcester Area Community-Based Research, Paper 2

Date: 2008

Description: This paper investigates the appearance of an enclave of Vietnamese-owned businesses in a Main South neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts, a poor neighborhood with a large Latino population. In exploring this phenomenon, the authors examine global and regional economic trends and their effect on immigration, the social and economic context of immigration in Worcester and the literature on immigrant entrepreneurs and ethnic enclaves. The paper concludes by considering the prospects for this particular enclave of immigrant entrepreneurs as well as other immigrants in Worcester.

http://commons.clarku.edu/localknowledge/2

Keywords: Asian Americans, immigration, Vietnamese Americans, ethnic enclave, entrepreneurs

Cataloged by: Alison Fulmer / B. J. Perkins

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