Self-Employment Activities of Women and Minorities

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-8

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2. Methods and contexts

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

      • Ursula Apitzsch, Maria Kontos

      Pages 9-11

   2. The method of biographical policy evaluation

      • Ursula Apitzsch, Lena Inowlocki, Maria Kontos

      Pages 12-18

   3. Socio-economic contexts of self-employment

      • Maria Kontos

      Pages 19-34

   4. Arenas of policy making

      • Floya Anthias, Maria Kontos, Feiwel Kupferberg, Gabriella Lazaridis, Suzanne Mason, Skevos Papaioannou et al.

      Pages 35-46

3. Dimensions of European diversity in non-priviledged self-employment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-48

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   2. The biographical embeddedness of women’s self-employment. Motivations, strategies and policies

      • Maria Kontos

      Pages 49-75

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

      • Maria Liapi, Maria Kontos

      Pages 76-86

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

      • Elisabetta Della Corte, Walter Greco, Walter Privitera

      Pages 87-96

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

      • Floya Anthias, Nishi Mehta

      Pages 97-107

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

      • Suzanne Mason

      Pages 108-128

   7. Gendered professional strategies in self-employment

      • Ursula Apitzsch

      Pages 129-144

   8. Migrant men and the challenge of entrepreneurial creativity

      • Feiwel Kupferberg

      Pages 145-157

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

      • Gabriella Lazaridis

      Pages 158-169

   10. Pontian newcomers in Greece

       • Skevos Papaioannou, Giorgios Tsiolis, Nikos Serdedakis

       Pages 170-193

   11. Some conclusions

       • Ursula Apitzsch, Maria Kontos

       Pages 195-202

4. Back Matter

   Pages 203-221

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This volume summarizes some results of the trans-national European research project „Self-employment activities concerning women and minorities: their success or failure in relation to social citizenship policies“ that was supported by the Directorate General Research of the European Commission within the Targeted Socio-Economic Research Program (TSER). The research was carried out over three years. We aimed at contributing to the knowledge of social exclusion and social integration through our analysis of non-privileged self-employment of na- ve women and migrant men and women in European countries. The research consists of comparative case studies in six European countries, in Northern and in Southern Europe. We concentrated on the study of four metropolitan regions, i.e., the Rhine/Main Region in Germany, Athens in Greece, Stockholm in Sweden, and London in the UK. In Denmark, the semi-metropolitan region of Aalborg and Aarhus were research sites. In Italy, we examined se- employment activities in the semi-rural region of Calabria. Research teams from the universities of Frankfurt/Main, Greenwich, Aalborg, Umeaå, Calabria, worked on the national cases of Germany, UK, Denmark, Sweden and Italy respectively, whereas the national case of Greece was conducted by the teams of the universities of Crete and Dundee and the Women’s Research Centre in Athens.

• Arbeit
• Ausbeutung
• European Union (EU)
• Geschlechterforschung
• Minorities
• Soziologie
• gender
• sociology
• women

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.

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