Social Entrepreneurship and Migrants' Inclusion: Insights from the Adriatic-Ionian Region Preface and about the book

This volume collects theoretical and empirical contributions regarding the inclusion of migrants through social entrepreneurship, covering everything from approaches, policies, and practices to antecedents, processes, and outcomes. Grounded in a multi-disciplinary approach, the book aims to foster debate and exchange on key issues in social entrepreneurship, including the innovative approaches of various initiatives, their potential transferability to other contexts, and the participation of beneficiaries in decision-making processes. More specifically, the book strives to provide insights into projects and practices in the Adriatic-Ionian region, which includes four EU countries (Greece, Italy and Slovenia), EU candidate countries (Albania and Serbia) and one potential EU candidate country (Bosnia and Herzegovina). To that end, the book analyzes factors that are driving and hindering the development of the social economy, as well as offers a comparison with countries not belonging to the Ionic area (Austria and Spain). Given the scarcity of national and comparative evidence of migrants' inclusion and entrepreneurship in the Adriatic-Ionian context, and on social entrepreneurship more broadly, the book should be of interest to a wide audience: not only academics and policymakers, but also a non-technical audience interested in the social and economic inclusion of migrants.