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TY - JOUR 
YR - 24-11-2021
JF - Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
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VO - 11
IS - 13
UL - journalofsocialsciences.org/article/81/
DO - 10.12944/CRJSSH.4.2.03
N2 - As noted in the paper published in the last issue of this journal, shopkeeping and retail have been one of the important ways of entry into the host economy in the case of some pre-war migrating communities such as the Jewish and the Italian heritage communities and relatively recently the post-war migrants such as the Asians (mostly Panjabis from both India and Pakistan) to Glasgow in Scotland. I explore how the two major ethnic enterprise-related theories ie the ethnic customer niche and middlemen minority theories apply to this group and also delve into unchartered area of the nature of property relations of retailers, i.e. acquisition of both commercial and housing property. Specifically, the paper explores the similarities and differences between the commercial and residential markets and their relationship and possible interdependence for entrepreneurial and asset building by the settlers,as well as the phenomenon of segregated property markets. I begin by exploring the background of retailers and their possible influence on their entry into the business.

The paper also compares some key aspects of Glasgow's Asian retail economy with other Asian retail localized economies using the studies of the period for comparative perspective purposes. The paper adds to the very sparse literature on asset ownership or on ethnic commercial property markets and explores the observed high ownership of residential property and the role of country-of-origin national banks in assisting with both ethnic enterprise and asset creation. The paper also explores the hypothesis that the agricultural background of majority of retailers which requires some sense of business and related skills, and the status accorded to property may be the crucial explanatory cultural.
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