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Contesting the boundaries of marianismo and entrepreneurial identity: Meanings of motherhood amongst Latin American migrant women entrepreneurs

Contesting the boundaries of marianismo and entrepreneurial identity: Meanings of motherhood amongst Latin American migrant women entrepreneurs
Contesting the boundaries of marianismo and entrepreneurial identity: Meanings of motherhood amongst Latin American migrant women entrepreneurs
Purpose¬: To critically analyse how Latin American migrant women entrepreneurs living in Ireland and the UK negotiate their entrepreneurial and motherhood identities in transnational settings. The paper explores (1) how motherhood influences the choices of becoming entrepreneurs; (2) how women reconcile the social imaginaries of motherhood from their country of origin in the new contexts of settlement; and (3) the impact of these transformations on their businesses.

Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on six biographical case studies (3 in Ireland and 3 in the UK) and employs the theoretical lens of translocational positionality to analyse entrepreneurship as context-specific and relational processes that bring together a multiplicity of social and geographical locales.

Findings: Latin American women entrepreneurs navigate their roles as 'good mothers' and 'good businesswomen' by simultaneously (1) complying with core values of marianismo that confine them to traditional gender roles and (2) renegotiating these values in ways that empower them through entrepreneurship. Finally, juxtaposing these two contexts (Ireland and the UK), this study (3) illuminates the similarities of the ever-continuing gender power struggles of egalitarianism for Latin American migrant women in both contexts.
Originality: Despite the agreed need for exploring motherhood as one of the critical aspects shaping family and business cycles, this area needs to be sufficiently analysed in its intersection with ethnicity or migratory status, particularly with participants from the global South. This article aims at bridging that gap.
Ireland, Latin America, entrepreneurship, migration, motherhood, uk, Entrepreneurship, Migration, UK, Motherhood
1756-6266
149-169
Cruz Garcia, Ana
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Villares-Varela, Maria
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Cruz Garcia, Ana
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Villares-Varela, Maria
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Cruz Garcia, Ana and Villares-Varela, Maria (2023) Contesting the boundaries of marianismo and entrepreneurial identity: Meanings of motherhood amongst Latin American migrant women entrepreneurs. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 15 (2), 149-169. (doi:10.1108/IJGE-06-2022-0102).

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Purpose¬: To critically analyse how Latin American migrant women entrepreneurs living in Ireland and the UK negotiate their entrepreneurial and motherhood identities in transnational settings. The paper explores (1) how motherhood influences the choices of becoming entrepreneurs; (2) how women reconcile the social imaginaries of motherhood from their country of origin in the new contexts of settlement; and (3) the impact of these transformations on their businesses.

Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on six biographical case studies (3 in Ireland and 3 in the UK) and employs the theoretical lens of translocational positionality to analyse entrepreneurship as context-specific and relational processes that bring together a multiplicity of social and geographical locales.

Findings: Latin American women entrepreneurs navigate their roles as 'good mothers' and 'good businesswomen' by simultaneously (1) complying with core values of marianismo that confine them to traditional gender roles and (2) renegotiating these values in ways that empower them through entrepreneurship. Finally, juxtaposing these two contexts (Ireland and the UK), this study (3) illuminates the similarities of the ever-continuing gender power struggles of egalitarianism for Latin American migrant women in both contexts.
Originality: Despite the agreed need for exploring motherhood as one of the critical aspects shaping family and business cycles, this area needs to be sufficiently analysed in its intersection with ethnicity or migratory status, particularly with participants from the global South. This article aims at bridging that gap.

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Accepted/In Press date: 17 February 2023
Published date: 20 July 2023
Additional Information: Funding Information: Funding: Villares-Varela received no financial support for the research, authorship or publication of this article. Cruz García received funding for the research of this article from the Horizon2020 grant (No 952156). Publisher Copyright: © 2023, Emerald Publishing Limited.
Keywords: Ireland, Latin America, entrepreneurship, migration, motherhood, uk, Entrepreneurship, Migration, UK, Motherhood

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Local EPrints ID: 475409
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/475409
ISSN: 1756-6266
PURE UUID: 8f2b3ac6-5682-47c6-9e9f-55e554721c67
ORCID for Maria Villares-Varela: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0137-7104

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Date deposited: 17 Mar 2023 17:34
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:45

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Author: Ana Cruz Garcia

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