Review of female immigrant entrepreneurship research: Past findings, gaps and ways forward

Chreim, Samia; Spence, Martine; Crick, David; Liao, Xiaolu

doi:10.1016/j.emj.2018.02.001

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“…In their review of migrant women's entrepreneurship, Chreim et al (2018) indicate the need for further research in the ways educational backgrounds of migrant women interact with other contextual or actor-related factors. This study shows that, women with higher education and professional experience had issues in validating their credentials or putting them into use.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Migrant women entrepreneurs (MWE) have been studied extensively through the lenses of gender and ethnicity in entrepreneurship and migrant enterprise literature (Chreim, Spence, Crick, Liao, 2018;Essers & Benschop, 2007). Still, emerging studies show that there is room for developing the existing analyses by contextualizing diverse experiences of ethnic groups (Ram, Theodorakopoulos, & Jones, 2008), and intra-ethnic variations (Vershinina, Barrett, & Meyer, 2011) to articulate the multiple routes (Collins & Low, 2010) and outcomes of migrant enterprise (Romero & Valdez, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Manifestations of social class and agency in cultural capital development processes

Yeroz

2019

IJEBR

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Purpose While migrant women entrepreneurs (MWE) have been studied extensively through the lenses of gender and ethnicity, social class, as an axis of difference, received scant attention in entrepreneurship and migrant enterprise literature. The purpose of this paper is to make an intersectional analysis on migrant women’s cultural capital development processes on the basis of not only gender and ethnicity, but also class relations. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on empirical insights generated through listening to the life story narratives of 17 women entrepreneurs from Turkey. This is a small, yet diverse group consisting of women who followed their male kin who have migrated to Sweden in the late 1960s as a labour force, and of highly educated political refugee women who have migrated to Sweden following the military coup in Turkey in the 1980s. Findings By linking pre-migration and post-migration lives through Bourdieusian class analysis, the analysis yielded three distinct types of habitus of the women-intersectional identity constructed through interweaving of certain historical and cultural practices and conditions, labelled as women (immigrant) entrepreneurs, migrant (women) entrepreneurs and hybrid entrepreneurs. Life stories demonstrated the ways the MWE relationally defined, and in turn, contested being the right kind of entrepreneur drawing on their type of habitus and forms of cultural capital within the rules of the game in the specific context of entrepreneurship. Originality/value This study shows how MWE generate diverse, yet at times similar, but historically and culturally conditioned responses in actively shaping the relationship between entrepreneurial resources and context-specific structural powers and aspects. This way, the study calls for enriching the extant debate on migrant women entrepreneurship in two ways. First, it suggests that the strategic fit between resources and opportunities does not entail an automatic and arbitrary process. Rather, it takes an effort and contestation carried out by the entrepreneurial actors, among whom the individual entrepreneur is the primary actor. In particular, it draws attention to the conditions of possibilities for agency as a result of struggle and intersectional power relations: social class, ethnicity and gender, which provide a differential degree of powers to the individual entrepreneur.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Manifestations of social class and agency in cultural capital development processes

Yeroz

2019

IJEBR

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“…Despite recent large flows of migrants, the gendered nature of how men and women experience migrant entrepreneurial journeys remains under-researched (Chreim et al, 2018). To contribute to this academic debate, we encourage future researchers to incite the discussion on building theory or/an evidencing about (i) the lived experiences of transnational migrant entrepreneurs setting up enterprises outside of their host country context (Vershinina et al, 2019); (ii) the rarely discussed form of symbolic capital understood as the prestige, status and positive reputation individuals possess in the eyes of others; and (iii) the multifaceted and often gendered nature of forms of cultivated symbolic (Afreh et al, 2019;Spark et al, 2019).…”

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Entrepreneurial migrants from/in emerging economies: breaking taboos and stereotypes

Guerrero

Wanjiru

2021

Int Entrep Manag J

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Entrepreneurial migration from/in emerging economies, as grand societal and humanitarian challenges that we currently face, underscores the need for scholarly research. In our role as social science researchers, this special issue aimed to stimulate scholars from different social science fields to rethink more broadly about the opportunities for making an impact with our research focus on entrepreneurial migration from/in emerging economies. This article provides an overview of the theoretical, empirical, managerial, and policy implications of entrepreneurial migrants from/in emerging economies research. It puts forward key concepts and measures, explores the relations within the current broader literature on migration and entrepreneurship, and identifies several gaps that represent future research questions. We also introduce eight papers in a special section of this issue, which offer answers to critical gaps and questioning some taboos/stereotypes related entrepreneurial migrants. We conclude by outlining an agenda for engaging the academic community to extend research on entrepreneurial migrants from/in emerging economies. It is the perfect time to "make a difference" through our research, teaching, and interaction with multiple socioeconomic agents to constitute impacts that "endorse a real transformation" for supporting the migrants' community.

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“…It is composed of more elements. The two most remarkable are: the greater female participation in the labour market (Peri, 2012;Goldin et al, 2018;Chreim et al, 2018), and the labour force with comparatively more modest pretensions. Supply motivates labour-intensive investments (Bördős et al, 2016).…”

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The concept of labour migration from the perspective of Central and Eastern Europe

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Szombathelyi²,

Васа³

2020

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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The present paper overviews academic literature and statistics related to labour migration in part where it concerns Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), with special attention paid to Hungary. It aims to discover the main notions and results of European migration along with potential future trends. The paper, inter alia, focuses on the changing characteristics of host countries' labour markets and demographic profiles. It has found that CEE's involvement in intercontinental migration is expected to continue, and is driven by demographic and economic catalysts. Therefore, to address all related issues and map trends, not only an economic perspective is required. The conclusion is that preparation for integration of the newly arrived labour force is a permanent ongoing task for all employers and policymakers, as well as for the entire society.

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Review of female immigrant entrepreneurship research: Past findings, gaps and ways forward

Cited by 79 publications

References 62 publications

Manifestations of social class and agency in cultural capital development processes

Manifestations of social class and agency in cultural capital development processes

Entrepreneurial migrants from/in emerging economies: breaking taboos and stereotypes

The concept of labour migration from the perspective of Central and Eastern Europe

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