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Creative Entrepreneurship of Young Roma Women: An Exploratory Study from Middle Banat Region, Serbia

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The aim of this chapter is to investigate the informal ethnic female entrepreneurship in two cities in Middle Banat Region. The focus of the research is put on capacities, conditions, driving forces, motivation and problems of young Roma female creative entrepreneurs in Zrenjanin and Novi Bečej. Empirical data on creative entrepreneurship of young Roma women (18–35) is based on the survey conducted during August—September 2017. Respondents were asked about their creative skills, family tradition and way of acquiring them, preferences and work motives, barriers to starting work in the creative economy and access to the creative economy market.

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Acknowledgments

Data presented in this chapter were collected within the project “Working Horizons for Young Roma Women—with the emphasis on returnees” (Jelena Šantić Foundation 2017) supported by GIZ GmbH, Office Serbia.

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  1. Fondacija Grupa za kreativnu ekonomiju (Creative Economy Group Foundation), Belgrade, Serbia

    Hristina Mikić

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  1. Faculty of Business & Economics, South-East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia

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  2. Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France

    Léo-Paul Dana

  3. La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Vanessa Ratten

  4. South-East European University, Tetovo, Macedonia

    Abdylmenaf Bexheti

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Mikić, H. (2019). Creative Entrepreneurship of Young Roma Women: An Exploratory Study from Middle Banat Region, Serbia. In: Ramadani, V., Dana, LP., Ratten, V., Bexheti, A. (eds) Informal Ethnic Entrepreneurship. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99064-4_13

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