The current article contributes to the debates on immobility in migration studies. More specifically, it aims to show and challenge mobility bias in transnational entrepreneurship; the relevant scholarship appears to overconcentrate on immigrants as major driving forces of cross-border business relations while ignoring the contributions of nonmigrant populations. Based on the qualitative data collected from Central Asian migrant entrepreneurs in Russia, this research dispels the myth about the inertness of nonmigrants by demonstrating their utmost importance in establishing and sustaining transnational enterprises. Therefore, transnational entrepreneurship should be regarded as the result of joint efforts of both mobile and sedentary actors. The presented evidence suggests that mobility and immobility are integrally intertwined and mutually constitutive. This study calls for a more balanced and nuanced vision of how transnationalism occurs.

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克服跨国创业中的流动性偏见

本文为移民研究中关于流动性的争论做出了贡献。更具体地说，它旨在展示和挑战跨国创业中的流动性偏见；相关学术似乎过分关注移民作为跨境商业关系的主要推动力，而忽视了非移民人口的贡献。基于从在俄罗斯的中亚移民企业家收集的定性数据，这项研究通过证明非移民在建立和维持跨国企业方面的至关重要性，消除了关于非移民惰性的神话。因此，跨国创业应该被视为流动参与者和固定参与者共同努力的结果。所提供的证据表明，移动性和固定性是整体交织在一起且相互构成的。这项研究呼吁对跨国主义如何发生有一个更加平衡和细致的看法。