Abstract
This paper presents the trajectory of Portuguese female immigrants who came to the city of Sao Paulo in the last two decades of 20th century and records their surviving strategies, initially looking for work and subsequently as entrepreneurs in their own business: restaurants, travel agency, fado singer, and others. Its primary aim is to identify, from their narratives, the entrepreneurship level of these women and the capital stock equity of their ownership, use, and from which they could be able to develop over four decades living in this huge metropolis. In this context, it is also sought the way social networks supporting their arrival were accessed during their period adapting to the city and on performing their business ventures. The analytical and interpretative path from the face to face interviews with these Portuguese immigrants allows us to conclude that social capital is an extremely relevant resource to entrepreneurship.
Highlights
This paper presents episodes from the lives and experiences of five Portuguese women, from different regions in Portugal, who migrated to São Paulo and here devoted themselves to the most varied professions to undertake activities such as singing fado, running companies in the Portuguese gastronomy and tourism industry
Children or adolescents, alone or with their parents, they arrived to the city of São Paulo between the decades of 1950 and 1980, extending the statistics of Portuguese immigrants living in the city
The analytical and interpretative path followed from the conducted interviews can claim that social capital is an extremely relevant resource for entrepreneurship and has been a strong ally in the Portuguese immigrant’s enterprises performance
Summary
This paper presents episodes from the lives and experiences of five Portuguese women, from different regions in Portugal, who migrated to São Paulo and here devoted themselves to the most varied professions to undertake activities such as singing fado, running companies in the Portuguese gastronomy and tourism industry. (2014) Portuguese Women: Entrepreneurs in Sao Paulo City. Apart from reports on the life stories of Portuguese immigrants, we try to understand, from the narratives, some of their experiences in the city of São Paulo, such as the entrepreneur women, with the contributions of the social capital they held, used and built, considering the access to the social networks support at the moment of arrival, the adaptation period and all conducted business deals. The present study intends to evaluate how and how much the social capital of the Portuguese immigrants women interviewed, contributed to their personal and professional experiences in the city of Sao Paulo. It is worth pointing out that their social capital may positively have affected their activities in this city
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