The recent renaming of the Dutch Randstad into 'DeltaMetropolis' can be seen as part of a broader strategy to capitalise upon the region's metropolitan and economic potentials and to strengthen its international competitive position. This strategy was first presented by the national planning...

Urban residential neighbourhoods, including migrant neighbourhoods, have become important incubation zones for small-scale businesses in recent years, and policy makers and academics alike are wondering which local factors affect this development. In this paper we analyse to what extent migrant...

The Netherlands like most western countries has witnessed a strong rise in small businesses of non-western migrants in recent years. This phenomenon has been particularly observable in disadvantaged multicultural neighbourhoods of the major cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht....