THE IMPACT OF THE ENTREPRENEUR CONDITION ON SOCIAL MOBILITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE ROMANIAN SELFEMPLOYED MIGRANTS IN THE ITALIAN CONSTRUCTION SECTOR
THE IMPACT OF THE ENTREPRENEUR CONDITION ON SOCIAL MOBILITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE ROMANIAN SELFEMPLOYED MIGRANTS IN THE ITALIAN CONSTRUCTION SECTOR

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on migrant entrepreneurs’ agency and explores the determinants of self-employment, on one side, and the relationship between the “entrepreneur condition”, the social mobility process and the capacity of transferring developmental values in the communities of origin, on the other side. The study is based on qualitative empirical research involving self-employed migrants from Romania, working in the construction sector in the Veneto Region, in the North-Eastern part of Italy. A number of 24 interviews and participatory observation were conducted with Romanians settled in different provinces and cities of the Veneto Region analyzing their professional paths, the motivating factors for self-employment, the process of social status attainment within the Italian society, the way they perceive themselves within the Romanian community in the host and home country, and finally what kind of resources, values and cultures they have transferred into their communities (in both their host and home countries).

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