Self-Employment Activities of Women and Minorities Their Success or Failure in Relation to Social Citizenship Policies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Apitzsch, Ursula (Editor), Kontos, Maria (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Sociology.; Economic sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.

The discussion on new forms of non-privileged self-employment of women and minorities is usually divided into separate discourses on women’s opportunities on the one hand and ethnic business on the other. The focus in the discussion about the special resources of migrant entrepreneurship has been ab...

Table of Contents:

• Methods and contexts
• Social exclusion and self-employment in European societies: An introduction
• The method of biographical policy evaluation
• Socio-economic contexts of self-employment
• Arenas of policy making
• Dimensions of European diversity in non-priviledged self-employment
• The biographical embeddedness of women’s self-employment. Motivations, strategies and policies
• Self-employment, autonomy and empowerment against patriarchal family structures
• Clientelism and family spirit. Some notes on self-employment policy in Calabria
• Gender, the family and self-employment: Is the family a resource for migrant women entrepreneurs?
• Collective self-employment of migrant women in Sweden. Biographical projects and policy measures
• Gendered professional strategies in self-employment
• Migrant men and the challenge of entrepreneurial creativity
• Highly educated and/or skilled migrants from third countries and self-employment in Greece: a comparison between men’s and women’s experiences
• Pontian newcomers in Greece
• Some conclusions.