Open AccessEconomic and Social Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Rome: Threat VS Opportunity
Author(s) -
Cristiano Colombi,
Olha Kostyuk,
Flavio Mancini
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista nacional de administración
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1659-4932
pISSN - 1659-4908
DOI - 10.22458/rna.v12i2.3847
Subject(s) - entrepreneurship , covid-19 , immigration , psychological resilience , pandemic , resilience (materials science) , economic growth , economic impact analysis , political science , scale (ratio) , development economics , demographic economics , geography , economics , psychology , medicine , physics , cartography , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , psychotherapist , thermodynamics , microeconomics
The study extends a research already presented at the VII CIRIEC Conference and aims to elaborate, test and disseminate a scale for assessing the socio-economic impact of migrant female enterprises on their communities and their resilience capacity to the COVID-19 crisis. The research analyses four different areas: employment, economic growth and innovation, economic relations with the country of origin and local communities. The study consists of three different stages:1) Mapping of migrant female entrepreneurs (from Ukraine, Moldavia, Peru and Ecuador) in the City of Rome; 2) structured questionnaires; 3) in-depth interviews. Finally, a qualitative analysis is developed on a selection of 4 paradigmatic case studies. Thus, the research assesses the socio-economic impacts of migrant enterprises on the well-being of local communities and defines resilience strategies deployed by migrant enterprises in the fight against COVID-19, as well as the emerging needs of migrants’ enterprises induced by the crisis.