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African immigrants self-employment journey: navigating contextual challenges in South Africa

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  • Justice Muchineripi
  • Willie Chinyamurindi
  • Tendai Chimucheka

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Purpose - The study explores experiences of African immigrants in their self-employment journey. South Africa has been receiving many African immigrants seeking for socio-economic survival. This presents a gap to understand the self-employment journey of such immigrants post-settlement. Design/methodology/approach - A qualitative inquiry is used with semi-structured interviews using a sample of African immigrants based in South Africa. Narrative enquiry was utilised in trying to understand the African immigrant self-employment journey. Findings - The findings show strategies used by African immigrant entrepreneurs in their self-employment journey. These include immigrant relying on established relationships to respond to contextual challenges. Further, immigrant entrepreneurs turned to borrowing from family, including personal savings and using fronts as a capital generation strategy. Originality/value - Based on the findings strategies are suggested as a useful precursor in advancing understanding of the African immigrant self-employment journey. This becomes useful especially considering ideals for assisting post-settlement of migrants.

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  • Justice Muchineripi & Willie Chinyamurindi & Tendai Chimucheka, 2022. "African immigrants self-employment journey: navigating contextual challenges in South Africa," Journal of Global Mobility, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 10(4), pages 530-544, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:jgmpps:jgm-02-2022-0006
    DOI: 10.1108/JGM-02-2022-0006
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