Women in the migrant economy. A positional approach to contextualize gendered transnational trajectories. Issue 3 (15th March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Villares-Varela, María; Essers, Caroline
• Is Part Of: Entrepreneurship and regional development. Volume 31:Issue 3/4(2019)
• Page Start: 213
• Page End: 225
• Publication Date: 2019-03-15
• Subjects: Entrepreneurship -- women -- ethnicity -- migration -- gender -- positionality -- transnationalism; Industrial promotion -- Periodicals; Entrepreneurship -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Periodicals; 338.04
• DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2018.1551789
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0898-5626

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Drawing on the life histories of migrant women entrepreneurs in the Netherlands and Spain, this article explores the influence of transnational trajectories on their social positions and business strategies. A translocational positional approach enables us to research the transnational strategies of women entrepreneurs more effectively in addition to examining the changes in social positions and gendered identities between the country of origin and the country of destination. This approach contributes to scholarship on 'context' by offering a transnational gendered dimension in relation to the effects of social, spatial and institutional factors. Our findings demonstrate how female migrant entrepreneurs redefine their social status in different contexts by establishing a business and challenge, contest or comply with gender relations in their transnational entrepreneurial journeys.