Ksenyia Homel-Ficenes’s project funded in the competition for research projects at CESS

19 01 2024

The project of Ksenyia Homel-Ficenes from the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation “Business in a New Country: Strategies of Female Migrants and Entrepreneurial Support Infrastructure in Poland and Italy” was funded in the competition for research projects at the Centre of Excellence in Social Sciences.

The project received funding in the amount of 78 537,00 PLN.

Project description: Entrepreneurial strategies of people with migration experience are an interesting research area for understanding how migrants not only develop their economic activities and financial independence in their new countries of residence, but also achieve social and symbolic agency.

A number of studies, however, indicate that due to the multidimensional contexts of inequality women with migration experience, they are less likely to enter the path of business activity or experience more barriers during its implementation. Important for entrepreneurship is the availability of entrepreneurship support.

The project aims to understand what factors drive migrant women to start a business, what conditions influence the development of their enterprises, and what forms of support are relevant to them at different stages of their business. To this end, the project will explore the entrepreneurial strategies of women with migration experience in Poland and Italy and map the infrastructure supporting migrant entrepreneurship.

The study will be exploratory, critical and practical, and will contribute not only to filling the knowledge gap on the entrepreneurship of women with migration experience but will also contribute to the generation of recommendations for institutions involved in supporting immigrant entrepreneurship.