ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Female Immigrants Enrich their New Home an Entrepreneurial Spirit. Successive migration flows to France have taken place for well over a century and continue unabated even today. This European nation has been host to somewhat of a rollercoaster migration history with the country at times attracting European neighbors, and at others acting almost as a beacon for states previously under French colonial rule. The majority of studies agree that women and men have different motives in their choice of entrepreneurial activity. While mostly well educated women opt for self-employment, it appears that this is due to family obligations rather than job market discrimination or rejection. The chapter also focuses on the lives of France's female immigrant entrepreneurs and the socio-cultural challenges. Despite France touting its status as a secular state, immigrants from predominantly non-Christian countries such as those in North and Sub-Saharan Africa or the Arabian peninsula are often relegated to the social periphery.
