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The presence of concentrations of ethnic businesses (notably small retail and services) in cities, has caused effects of regeneration in some urban centers or suburban zones until then rather or quite degraded. This phenomenon has been studied specially in North American cities and some Western European cities where immigrants or ethnic groups in urban settings have been present for a long time. Instead, in the South of Europe foreign immigrants arrived more recently to cities with an unprecedented speed and number. Therefore the impacts of the immigrants presence, specially in some rather derelict old towns or in peripheral neighborhoods have been quite dramatic. For instance, the effects of immigrant entrepreneurs in some urban landscapes in Rome, Milan, Naples, Barcelona, Madrid or Valencia are evident. Studies taking into account the rather new phenomena of ethnic businesses in the urbanscapes of Southern European cities are increasingly needed. Mass media shape or reflect native public opinion on the effects of ethnic businesses; local governments, having a rather poor knowledge of what ethnic businesses are and how they operate, have the responsibility of setting up policies that affect immigrant entrepreneurs. Regional and local governments in Catalonia have not yet counted on the “entrepreneurial acumen” of foreigners in urban regeneration policies.

Related publications

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Centralidades étnicas”
BOOK: “Dicionário sobre migrações internacionais”. OBMigra (Obsservatòrio das migrações internacionais)
PUBLICATION TYPE: book chapter, forthcoming

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “The role of foreign-owned businesses in the revitalisation of historic centres in three Catalan towns”
JOURNAL: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
PUBLICATION TYPE: research paper, under review

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “A Typology of Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Businesses: Are Immigrant-owned Businesses Leading to Urban Revitalization in Barcelona?”
BOOK: “Migration and Categorical Inequality”. Ernesto Castañeda, editor. Paradigm Press. Boulder, Colorado.
PUBLICATION TYPE: book chapter, forthcoming

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Guetos comercials o revitalització urbana?”
NEWSPAPER: “Avui, l’Econòmic” (October, 26, 2013), page 21
PUBLICATION TYPE: newspaper article
http://www.elpuntavui.cat/noticia/article/4-economia/18-economia/688139-guetos-comercials-o-revitalitzacio-urbana.html?cca=1

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Centralidades étnicas en el área metropolitana de Barcelona: ¿revitalización urbana o guetos comerciales?”
CONFERENCE: VII Congreso sobre Migraciones Internacionales en España.
YEAR: 2012 CITY: Bilbao (Spain)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1319656/Congreso_Migraciones2012/Area_05/05_1_09.pdf

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “A Typology of Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Businesses: Are Immigrant-owned Businesses Leading to Urban Revitalization in Barcelona?”
BOOK: “Migration and Categorical Inequality”, Paradigm Press. Boulder, Colorado, Ernesto Castañeda, editor.
VOLUME/PAGES/PUBLISHING COMPANY/YEAR: forthcoming
PUBLICATION TYPE: book chapter

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Do foreign-owned businesses revitalize historic neighborhoods in Barcelona and in other Catalan towns?”
JOURNAL: Uran Studies
VOLUME/PAGES/EDITORIAL/YEAR: review process
PUBLICATION TYPE: journal paper

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau and Smilges, Alfredo
TITLE: “La población extranjera de Badalona en el contexto de la crisis económica”
JOURNAL: Estudios Geográficos
VOLUME/PAGES/EDITORIAL/YEAR:  Vol. LXXIV, 275, pp. 639-682
PUBLICATION TYPE: journal paper
http://estudiosgeograficos.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeograficos/article/view/413/413

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Global Businesses ‘from Below’: Ethnic Entrepreneurs in Metropolitan Areas”
JOURNAL: The Journal Urbani Izziv – Urban Challenge, volume on “Globalising Economic Spaces, Uneven Development and Regional Challenges” edited by PALLARES-BARBERA, M.; SUAU-SANCHEZ, P.; LE HERON, R.; FROMHOLD-EISIBITH, M.
VOLUME/PAGES/EDITORIAL/YEAR: 23, supplement 2/97-106/2012
PUBLICATION TYPE: journal paper
http://urbani-izziv.uirs.si/Portals/uizziv/papers/urbani-izziv-en-2012-23-supplement-2-008.pdf

AUTHORS: Miret, Naïk and Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “El papel de la inmigración extranjera en el cambio social y urbano de Besòs i Maresme, un barrio periférico de Barcelona”
JOURNAL: Estudios Geográficos
VOLUME/PAGES/EDITORIAL/YEAR: 2013
PUBLICATION TYPE: journal paper
http://estudiosgeograficos.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeograficos/article/view/396/396

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Dispersión y suburbanización. Nuevos paisajes étnicos”
JOURNAL: Revista Internacional de Organizaciones
VOLUME/PAGES/EDITORIAL/YEAR: 6/65-79//2011
PUBLICATION TYPE: journal paper
http://www.revista-rio.org/index.php/revista_rio/article/view/71/pdf

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Los procesos geográficos de concentración en las centralidades étnicas”
JOURNAL: Revista Internacional de Organizaciones
VOLUME/PAGES/EDITORIAL/YEAR: 2/29//2009
PUBLICATION TYPE: journal paper
http://revista-rio.org/index.php/revista_rio/article/view/24

AUTORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Empresariado étnico en España”
JOURNAL: Documents d’Anàlisi Geogràfica
VOLUME/PAGES/EDITORIAL/YEAR: 51/7//2008
PUBLICATION TYPE: book review

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Emprenedors immigrants als barris”
BULLETIN: Migrainfo
VOLUME/PAGES/EDITORIAL/YEAR: 26, Third trimester/3/Diputació de Barcelona/2008
PUBLICATION TYPE: bulletin article

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Las asociaciones de comerciantes como actores para la convivencia: el caso de Ciutat Vella (Barcelona)”
BOOK: ZAPATA-BARRERO, Ricard and PINYOL, Gemma, eds. “Los gestores del proceso de inmigración. Actores y redes de actores en España y Europa”. Published by CIDOB.
Volume: 1
Year: 2008
City: Barcelona
Country: Spain
PUBLICATION TYPE: book chapter
ISBN: 978-84-87072-98-7

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Le commerce des immigrés dans la vielle ville de Barcelone”
BOOK: AUDEBERT, Cédric and MA MUNG, Emmanuel, eds. “Les nouveaux territoires migratoires: entre logiques globales et dynamiques locales”. Published by Universidad de Deusto.
Volume: 2
Year: 2008
City: Bilbao
Country: Spain
PUBLICATION TYPE: book chapter
ISBN: 978-84-9830-126-7

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: review on “Inmigrantes emprendedores en la Comunidad de Madrid”
JOURNAL: Migraciones internacionales
Year: 2007
Country: Mexico
PUBLICATION TYPE: book review
ISSN: 1665-8906

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Alguns mites i realitats sobre els comerços ètnics. Una oportunitat d’integració?”
MAGAZINE: Temes d’avui
Number: 22
Initial page: 18
Final page: 21
Year: 2006
City: Barcelona
Country: Spain
PUBLICATION TYPE: magazine article

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “El comercio de los inmigrantes en el centro histórico de Barcelona en 2004”
JOURNAL: Estudios Geográficos
Volume: LXVII
Number: 261
Year: 2006
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
PUBLICATION TYPE: scientific journal paper
ISBN/ISSN: 0014-1496

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
BOOK TITLE: “El comercio étnico en el distrito de Ciutat Vella en Barcelona” (pdf, 8 Mb). Published by Fundació La Caixa
Volume: 1
Pages: 189
Year: 2006
City: Barcelona
Country: Spain
PUBLICATION TYPE: book
ISBN 13: 978-84-7664-913-8
Slideshow with the book annex maps. Please ask for permission to Pau Serra to insert the images into published  works.

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Empresarios inmigrantes en Barcelona” (pdf, 1.4 Mb)
Expansión newspaper, Catalonia edition
Year: 2005
City: Madrid and Barcelona
Country: Spain
PUBLICATION TYPE: newspaper article
ISBN/ISSN: 1576-3323

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “El negocio étnico en la ciudad de Barcelona: el caso de los locutorios en el barrio de Ciutat Vella”
CONFERENCE: IX Congreso Iberoamericano de Sistemas de Información Geográfica
VOLUME: CD
Number of pages: 17
YEAR: 2003
CITY: Cáceres (Spain)
ISBN/ISSN: 84-688-3738-5

Presentations given in conferences

AUTHORS: Miret, Naïk and Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Los espacios socio-económicos y residenciales de la inmigración reciente en un barrio periférico de Barcelona”
CONFERENCE: “VI Conference on Migrations in Spain”
YEAR: 2009
CITY: La Coruña (Spain)

AUTHORS: Miret, Naïk and Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Potentiels de transformation des quartiers populaires de la banlieue de Barcelone à travers les pratiques socio-résidentielles et économiques de l’immigration latino-américaine récente”
CONFERENCE: “Périphéries urbaines entre normes et innovations. Les villes du sud de l’Europe. Bordeaux 11-14 juin 2008”
YEAR: 2008
CITY: Bordeaux (France)

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Geographical Factors that Shape Ethnic Business Spaces”
CONFERENCE: “Worlds of new work? Multi-scalar dynamics of new economic spaces”,
IGU Commission on The Dynamics of Economic Spaces – Barcelona 2008 Meeting –
5-8 August
YEAR: 2008
CITY: Barcelona

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Territorios étnicos urbanos”
TIPO DE PARTICIPACIÓN: comunicación
CONFERENCE: “Nuevos retos del transnacionalismo en el estudio de las migraciones”
YEAR: 2008
CITY: Bellaterra, Barcelona (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “Las asociaciones de comerciantes y la convivencia entre comerciantes
étnicos y autóctonos: el caso de Ciutat Vella (Barcelona)”
CONFERENCE: “Actores y redes de actores: los gestores de los procesos de inmigración
en España y en Europa”. CIDOB and Universidad Pompeu Fabra
YEAR: 2007
CITY: Barcelona
BOOK: 2008

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: «Le commerce des immigrés au quartier ancien de Barcelone»
CONFERENCE: “Colloque international 1985/2005: 20 ans de recherche sur les migrations
internationales”
YEAR: 2006
CITY: Migrinter, Université de Poitiers (Francia)
BOOK: 2008

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “El comercio de los inmigrantes extranjeros en el distrito de Ciutat Vella de
Barcelona en 2004”
CONFERENCE: X Congreso de Población: “Las inmigraciones internacionales: motor de
cambios sociodemográficos y territoriales”
YEAR: 2006
CITY: Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona (Spain)

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau
TITLE: “El comerç ètnic a Ciutat Vella (Barcelona)”
CONFERENCE: III Congrés de Comerç Urbà metropolità: Immigració i Comerç
YEAR: 2006
CITY: Ripollet (Spain)

AUTHORS: CEBRIÁN DE MIGUEL, Juan A., BODEGA FERNÁNDEZ, M. Isabel, LÓPEZ
VIZOSO, José María and SERRA DEL POZO, Pau
TITLE: “Le commerce ethnique dans le centre historique de Madrid”
PUBLICATION: Colloque international « Place et rôle des émigreés/immigrés dans le
développement local » . Observatoire Régional des Migrations Espaces et Sociétés.
VOLUME: CD and book
Number of pages: 16
YEAR: 2003
CITY: Agadir (Morocco)

AUTHORS: Serra del Pozo, Pau, Felip Puig, Núria, Pérez Arellano, Ana Isabel,
Revuelto Lorda, Ubaldina and Rodríguez Alonso, Luis.
TITLE: “El negocio étnico en la ciudad de Barcelona: el caso de los locutorios en el
barrio de Ciutat Vella”
PUBLICATION: IX Congreso Iberoamericano de Sistemas de Información Geográfica
VOLUME: CD
Number of pages: 17
YEAR: 2003
CITY: Cáceres (Spain)
ISBN/ISSN: 84-688-3738-5