ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the phenomenon of ethnic entrepreneurship in Greece through the eyes of three African women. It uses the brief biographical accounts as a heuristic device to open up a series of debates about ways in which one can understand the migration and working experiences of the self-employed migrants in the Greek context. The chapter attempts to answer the questions in the context of recent migration into Greece and the multiple forms and degrees of racist and sexist discrimination and abuse suffered by the black women. It draws on research carried out by the author on the self-employment of ethnic minority groups in Athens. The chapter is contextualised within existing theoretical approaches to self-employment. It provides a critical reflection on the relative adequacy of the various theoretical approaches to explain the situation in Greece. Migrant entrepreneurship, although increasingly diverse, is still strongly oriented towards specific segments of the opportunity structure.
