Abstract

TRAPAGA, Iban. Ethnic Latin American Entrepreneurship in Tijuana: Border Synergies in Five Case Studies. Frontera norte [online]. 2024, vol.36, e2353.  Epub June 14, 2024. ISSN 2594-0260.  https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2353.

This study on Latin American migration settled in the city of Tijuana, Mexico, aims to explore, describe and analyze the influence of the border condition in the creation, development and persistence of an emerging ethnic entrepreneurship and its respective businesses of and for immigrants from the global peripheries. To this end an ethnographic research is proposed in five observation units distributed in as various points of the border urban weave, belonging to gastronomic entrepreneurs from three national groups: Hondurans, Salvadorans, and Venezuelans. Participatory observation is carried out as a diner and several conversation techniques are implemented with the managers of these typical restaurants. Finally, through an interactive analysis, the presence of synergies between immigrant businesses and the border region is determined, which facilitate the existence of such businesses. The overall result is a first approach to the phenomenon, unpublished in previous studies in Mexico.

Keywords : immigrants; cultural nationalism; ethnic business; border; Tijuana.

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