The ethnic minorities of Estonia : changing size, location, and composition
Estonia ; Ethnic community ; Ethnic composition ; Ethnic minority ; International migration ; Location ; Minority ; Occupational activity ; Population census
Ethnic minority business: theoretical discourse in Britain and North America
Employment ; Enterprise ; Entrepreneurship ; Ethnic group ; Minority ; Research ; United Kingdom ; United States of America
The purpose of this paper is to review the findings of the ethnic minority business literature, the key debates arising therefrom and the manner in which the discourse is developed. The AA. begin with an evaluative summary of the emergence
of a British research agenda in the 1980s. They follow by a review of the most recent wave of British contributions, with its attempt to grapple with the rapidly changing nature of ethnic minority enterprise (maturation of South Asian business communities
Minority toponyms on maps. The rendering of linguistic minority toponyms on topographic maps of Western Europe
Purpose of this thesis is the reconstruction of the various trends or developments in the government approach to toponyms. This is done by comparing subsequent map series of the same areas where linguistic minorities were or are prevalent. The study
to determine the degree to which socioeconomic differences between the two populations account for the variations in the average quality of their housing. Although housing conditions for minorities have improved in absolute terms, only in a few instances has
the housing quality gap between Germans and persons of foreign origin narrowed. The housing conditions of minorities remained poorer.
Small-business viability in America’s urban minority communities
Community ; Customers ; Ethnic minority ; Immigrants ; Retail trade ; Shopkeeper ; Social geography ; United States of America ; Viability
This article examines small-business viability in America’s urban minority communities and compares the longevity of firms targeting clients in minority neighbourhoods to those serving clients in nonminority-white residential areas. While some claim
this market offers attractive opportunities, others stress that predominance of minority- and immigrant-owned firms in this sector reflects the fact that only the least desirable market niches are accessible to them. It con-cludes that serving local clienteles
Adriatic Sea ; European integration ; Frontier region ; Italy ; Minority ; Political geography ; Political integration ; Slovenia
The author deals with the complexity of minority and border issues that make up the problem of studying contact areas in the upper Adriatic. The nexus of these issues is under the simultaneous influence of various factors contributing
to the formation of different phenomenon typologies within the social dominance-minority relation, comprised of the situation of border national minority, territorial or regional minority and urban minority. Upper Adriatic has once again proven to be a most