This volume summarizes some results of the trans-national European research project Self-employment activities concerning women and minorities: their success or failure in relation to social citizenship policies that was supported by the Directorate General Research of the European Commission within the Targeted Socio-Economic Research Program (TSER). The research was carried out over three years. We aimed at contributing to the knowledge of social exclusion and social integration through our analysis of non-privileged self-employment of na- ve women and migrant men and women in European...