Enterprising refugee women: Analyzing postfeminist governmentality in an organizational context

• Published in: Gender, work, and organization Vol. 30; no. 5; pp. 1513 - 1532
• Main Authors: Dlaske, Kati, Schilling, Katharina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2023
• Subjects: entrepreneurship; Feminism; Forced migration; Gender inequality; Governmentality; Labor migration; Positioning; Postfeminism; Power; project; refugee women; Refugees; Resistance; Women; Work

This study examines a model project initiated by a German Federal Ministry in the middle of the vast increase in forced migration to Germany after 2015. The project aimed at facilitating the integration of female refugees into German society by way of ‘empowering’ them to become self‐employed. A bus...