Self-Employment Activities of Women and Minorities

Contents

Preface

Methods and contexts

1. Social exclusion and self-employment in European societies: An introduction

2. The method of biographical policy evaluation

3. Socio-economic contexts of self-employment

4. Arenas of policy making

Dimensions of European diversity in non- priviledged self- employment

Preface

1. The biographical embeddedness of women’s selfemployment. Motivations, strategies and policies

2. Self-employment, autonomy and empowerment against patriarchal family structures

3. Clientelism and family spirit. Some notes on self- employment policy in Calabria

4. Gender, the family and self-employment: Is the family a resource for migrant women entrepreneurs?

5. Collective self-employment of migrant women in Sweden. Biographical projects and policy measures

6. Gendered professional strategies in self-employment

7. Migrant men and the challenge of entrepreneurial creativity

8. Highly educated and/or skilled migrants from third countries and self- employment in Greece: a comparison between men’s and women’s experiences

9. Pontian newcomers in Greece

Some conclusions

References

Research Teams