Every tenth foreign person in the city of Zurich is self-employed. The entrepreneurial activities of these people open up a wide range of integration policy and local economic perspectives.

The literature review examines the prerequisites of migrant entrepreneurship and the opportunities and difficulties that can arise from it.

In the Langstrasse district, 29% of all shops market themselves through the ethnic character of their offer; in Seefeld it is 13%. The inventory survey examines the structure and distribution of these shops in the Seefeld and Langstrasse districts.