Self-employed migrants and their entrepreneurial space in megacities: A Beijing farmers’ market

Self-employment is an important path to economic mobility for immigrants and rural–urban migrants in megacities around the world. Their entrepreneurial spaces scatter across urban areas but can be susceptible to removal in the process of urban redevelopment and streetscaping efforts. This study chose the farmers' market, a typical scattered entrepreneurial space, to study the mechanism of self-employed migrants' upward mobility in the context of...