Power engagement in migrant women’s entrepreneurship
研究质疑移民女性创业者仅从既有社会地位获得权力的观点，通过四位土耳其裔移民女性的生命故事，揭示她们如何以身体和情感方式体验并灵活运用多种权力模式，产生跨越个体、关系、情境和系统的变革效应。
This paper questions the form of power attributed to migrant women entrepreneurs often emanating from their pre-established social positions, which limits their engagements to mere reaction and adaptation to dominant power holders (i.e. specific groups, contexts, structures). Drawing on the life stories of four migrant women entrepreneurs of Turkish origin in Sweden and the Netherlands, we examine how they experience power as an embodied and affective phenomenon through a multiple case study approach. Going beyond the positional power attributed to women, we adopt a critical feminist perspective on power and demonstrate how migrant women entrepreneurs actively exercise different ‘modalities of power’ (power-over, power-to and power-with) and build ‘power agility’. The study contributes to migrant women’s entrepreneurship by uncovering their power as an emergent attribute rather than as a fixed parameter and by articulating how this ‘agility’ is at the core of migrant women entrepreneurs’ capacity to generate transformative effects crossing over individual, relational, contextual, and systemic aspects and levels.