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

:	Ursula Apitzsch, Maria Kontos
:	Ursula Apitzsch, Maria Kontos
:	Self-Employment Activities of Women and Minorities Their Success or Failure in Relation to Social Citizenship Policies
:	VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (GWV)
:	9783531908168
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:	CHF 47.40
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:	Soziologie
:	English

:	218
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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.

Dr. Ursula Apitzsch is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at J.W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main.
Dr. Maria Kontos is researcher at the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research.

	Contents	5
	Preface	7
	Methods and contexts	9
	1. Social exclusion and self-employment in European societies: An introduction	9
	2. The method of biographical policy evaluation	12
	3. Socio-economic contexts of self-employment	19
	4. Arenas of policy making	35
	Dimensions of European diversity in non- priviledged self- employment	47
	Preface	47
	1. The biographical embeddedness of women’s selfemployment. Motivations, strategies and policies	49
	2. Self-employment, autonomy and empowerment against patriarchal family structures	76
	3. Clientelism and family spirit. Some notes on self- employment policy in Calabria	87
	4. Gender, the family and self-employment: Is the family a resource for migrant women entrepreneurs?	97
	5. Collective self-employment of migrant women in Sweden. Biographical projects and policy measures	108
	6. Gendered professional strategies in self-employment	129
	7. Migrant men and the challenge of entrepreneurial creativity	145
	8. Highly educated and/or skilled migrants from third countries and self- employment in Greece: a comparison between men’s and women’s experiences	158
	9. Pontian newcomers in Greece	170
	Some conclusions	194
	References	202
	Research Teams	220