ABSTRACT
In this chapter the authors question the presupposed view, and its accompanying entrepreneurship discourse, which regards entrepreneurship as something 'good' and worth being stimulated. The aim of this chapter is a critical reflection of female ethnic entrepreneurship in the Netherlands, a 'category' of entrepreneurs which is usually and typically excluded, not only in popular discourse but also in mainstream entrepreneurship literature. The authors write this chapter within the context of a Western society which is highly polarised with regard to Muslim/non-Muslim relations, i.e. the Netherlands. And as the allochtonous female entrepreneurs' stories place other emphases, and point towards a mutuality between the poles, authors can begin to see the contours of ambiguity here. The institutions as well as the female ethnic entrepreneurs sustain the-us-versus-them dichotomy as found in general societal discourse and in the standing literature on migrant entrepreneurship and female entrepreneurship.
