Title: Transnational Institutions and Ethnic Entrepreneurship Track
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This paper proposes to analyze the roles of two transnational institutions (a Pentecostal church and a government agency for foreign relations) in ethnic enterprise. The studied group is made up of Brazilian immigrants who set up in business with money saved as workers in the American state of Massachusetts in informal economy niches. The institutions that help understand this process, which the paper addresses, are the Church of the Assembly of God (" Igreja Assembléia de Deus "), which is structured in Brazil but operates in Boston without formal ties with the North American Church of the Assembly of God, and the Brazilian Consulate in Boston.
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