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Abstract
The article examines the profound influence of public policies on female migrant entrepreneurship, emphasizing their impact at both local and global levels. Highlighting diverse obstacles faced by female entrepreneurs, including financial constraints, limited knowledge, gender bias, and sociocultural factors, it underscores the pivotal role of governmental support. Specifically, in Northern Europe, gender equality, integration, and entrepreneurship policies are identified as crucial facilitators. Thus, migrant women, facing compounded challenges of gender, ethnicity, and immigration status, encounter barriers to accessing local opportunities. Motivations for entrepreneurship span economic survival, flexibility, and escape from domestic challenges. However, low-tech migrant enterprises often remain overlooked. Women’s business groups and governmental initiatives emerge as vital sources of support, emphasizing the need for tailored policies benefiting female entrepreneurs, especially migrants. The integration of such policies within broader entrepreneurial ecosystems ensures alignment and mutual reinforcement, thus policymakers are urged to recognize and address the distinct needs of female migrant entrepreneurs.
Keywords:
- policy challenges,
- female entrepreneurs,
- migrant,
- Northern Europe,
- gender entrepreneurship
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Biographical notes
Roberto Pessoa de Queiroz Falcão is a professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Universidade do Grande Rio, Brazil. He is also a professor of the Graduate Program in Administration (PPGA-Unigranrio) and a CNPq SEBRAE Fellow – ALI Project. Doctorate in Administration (PhD) – IAG PUC (2018) and a Masters (MSc) in Business Management from FGV – EBAPE Rio (2014). He is a strategy and immigrant entrepreneurship researcher and a collaborator of research groups at Southern Denmark University (SDU) and University of Western Australia (UWA). He has a postgraduate degree in Marketing from ESPM (1998) and graduated in Agronomic Engineering from Universidade Federal de Viçosa – MG (1992). He is part of the team of the Immigrant and Refugee Entrepreneurship Research Project (UFF/Unigranrio) and co-leader of a research group with the same name.
Victoria Barboza de Castro Cunha is an award-winning young interdisciplinary scholar, covering a wide array of topics in migration, gender, entrepreneurship, intercultural communication, academic literacy, and translation studies. She currently works as a research assistant in a project funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) at Getulio Vargas Foundation (EAESP FGV São Paulo School of Business Administration). She has completed her M.Sc. in Administration with Distinction at the Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil, a B.A. (Hons) in Administration, and a specialist degree in Translation Studies from Estácio de Sá University, Brazil.