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Long Abstract
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The active role of migrant women has been increasingly recognized both in academic literature and by society at large; yet, the cultural construction of migrant women is still dominated by an image that highlights their precarious working and living conditions, especially regarding gender segregation in the labour market, paying little attention to the many instances of successful migrant women who have challenged their traditional role as caregivers in reproductive work.
This panel on “Entrepreneurial and Executive Migrant Women” will offer an intersectional perspective the following topics:
- The strategies developed by migrant women in order to overcome social, economic, cultural and political obstacles to become entrepreneurs and executives (e.g. gendered relationships in the workplace and in the bureaucratic apparatus).
- The life trajectories of entrepreneurial and executive migrant women and the ways in which their entrepreneurial projects have transformed their migratory experience and horizons (e.g. return, length of stay, remigration) and, conversely, the ways in which their migratory experiences have transformed their social and economic prospects (e.g. becoming entrepreneurs).
- The strategies developed by entrepreneurial and executive migrant women to develop creative forms of labour and family conciliation, and to transform and challenge traditional gender roles.
- The influence of the rural and urban contexts on the characteristics and particularities of entrepreneurship among migrant women.
- Types of socalled ethnic business owned and/or managed by migrant women.
- The ways in which migrant women can steer the development of alternative leadership styles in entrepreneurial projects and executive management.
- The social recognition of migrant women entrepreneurs and executives, both within their ethnic or national group and by societyat-large.
- Other types of informal entrepreneurship that recreate in the migratory context traditional forms of women’s solidarity (e.g. micro-credits organized and raised by women in the migratory context).
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