Self-employment activities of women and minorities [[electronic resource] ] : their success or failure in relation to social citizenship policies / / Ursula Apitzsch, Maria Kontos (eds.)

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451486603321
• Autore: Apitzsch Ursula
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wiesbaden, : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2008
• ISBN: 3-531-90816-2
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2008.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KontosMaria
• Disciplina: 300
• Soggetti: Self-employed; Sociology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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-privileged 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 above all on the assumed collective traditions of ethnic business and not on the individual emancipative resources of the self-employed. This book has brought the two discourses together. While women and migrants are most vulnerable to social exclusion on the labour market, at the same time they are subjects of unrecognized resources for self-employment that have to be taken into account under the special conditions of social citizenship policies in the European Union.