ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Mediterranean Europe. Cyprus is located in the far eastern end of the Mediterranean Basin and is the third largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicily and Sardinia. The Cyprus Government, as well as the governments of other host countries, need to treat the immigrant entrepreneurs in the same way they treat the local ones. Economic opportunities were the main purpose for moving to Cyprus even though some respondents reported that their main purpose on the island was to study. The chapter also focuses on female immigrant entrepreneurs, who shows high confidence skills and received good support from their families even though there were some who reported having problems with their children. Contrary to men immigrants in Cyprus, whose origins appeared to be mainly from the UK and other central European countries, most of the female immigrants, who were observed, seemed to have origins in the former eastern communist European bloc.
