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• TITLE: Portuguese Women: Entrepreneurs in Sao Paulo City

  AUTHORS: Maria Elisa de Almeida Mariz, Lucia Maria Machado Bógus

  KEYWORDS: Portuguese Immigrants; Entrepreneurship; Social Capital

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.2 No.4, April 11, 2014

  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.