Mahesh Somashekhar
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immigrant Entrepreneurship
Gentrification
gayborhoods
 

immigrant entrepreneurship & ethnic economies

Somashekhar, Mahesh. 2022. “The Business Ownership Patterns of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States: An Exploratory Study.” Online First at Social Currents. [Click here for open access version]

Somashekhar, Mahesh, James Buszkiewicz, Scott W. Allard, and Jennie Romich. 2022. “How Do Immigrant-Owned Firms Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? Evidence from Seattle.” Economic Development Quarterly 36(2):108-123. [Click here for open access version]

Somashekhar, Mahesh. 2019. “Neither Here nor There? How the New Geography of Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship Disadvantages African Americans.” Social Problems. 66(3):373-391. [Click here for open access version]
  • Winner, AAG Business Geography Specialty Group Student Paper Competition, 2015
  • Featured on the American Sociological Association's Works-in-Progress Blog

Somashekhar, Mahesh. 2019. “Ethnic Economies in the Age of Retail Chains: Comparing the Presence of Chain-Affiliated and Independently Owned Ethnic Restaurants in Ethnic Neighbourhoods.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45(13):2407-2429.
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Somashekhar, Mahesh. 2018. “Has the Suburbanization of Ethnic Economies Created New Opportunities for Income Attainment?” Social Science Quarterly 99(1):62-79. [Click here for open access version] [Click here for online appendix]

Somashekhar, Mahesh. 2014. “A Theoretical and Empirical Foundation for the Study of Non-Urban Ethnic Economies in the U.S.” Michigan Sociological Review 28:1-34.
 

gentrification

Somashekhar, Mahesh. 2021. "Can We Bring Culture into the Large-Scale Study of Gentrification? Assessing the Possibilities Using Geodemographic Marketing Data." Urban Affairs Review 57(5): 1312-1342. [Click here for open access version]
  • Featured in the Urban Affairs Forum

Somashekhar, Mahesh. 2020. “Racial Inequality between Gentrifiers: How the Race of Gentrifiers Affects Retail Development in Gentrifying Neighborhoods.” City & Community 19(4):811-844. [Click here for open access version]
  • Media coverage by the Chicago Defender and This Week in Sociological Perspective
 

gayborhoods

Somashekhar, Mahesh, Jason Orne, Giacomo Negro, and Fabrizio Perretti. “Where Goes the Gayborhood? The Evolution of LGBTQ Organizational Clusters in the United States.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
 
Somashekhar, Mahesh and Giacomo Negro. “The Effect of the AIDS Crisis on LGBTQ-Serving Organizations in Ordinary Cities and Small Towns in the United States.” Working Paper.

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