Undocumented, Immigrants, Asylums & Entrepreneurship: How Different or Similar are These Groups?

Most of the work related to 'undocumented entrepreneurs' is related to refugee, asylum seeker entrepreneurs in the European context, and undocumented immigrants in the U.S. (mainly Mexican and Central American). This stream of research has emerged and diverged from international migration scholars and the purpose of this panel symposium is to bridge the conversation as it relates to undocumented immigrant entrepreneurs generally, and we hope to explore the various ways that these two groups overlap or not. Some of this work has focused less on the effect of undocumented immigrants on informal entrepreneurship and the role of local/national/domestic policies of this group as it relates to people shifting from informal to formal entrepreneurship. We aim to provide a space for scholars from different backgrounds to enrich the discussion of potential future studies for undocumented immigrants' entrepreneurship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]