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Latinas represent one of the fastest‐growing groups of entrepreneurs in the United States, yet they are understudied in entrepreneurship research. Through three case studies of middle‐class and wealthy Latinas, we explore how ethnorace, gender, immigration, class, and community shape their entrepreneurial endeavors as they practice what we refer to as feminist ethnoracial entrepreneurship–entrepreneurial endeavors that aim to empower, assist, and/or build community amongst women through ethnic and gender‐specific services and experiences. Feminist ethnoracial entrepreneurship, in theory, aims to mitigate ethnoracial and gender inequality. Our participants draw from their lived experiences to inform their entrepreneurial motivations to make a profit and a social difference. By incorporating research centered on feminist approaches to entrepreneurship, we show how gender and the ethnoracial context combine with class to shape Latina entrepreneurs' ethnoracial capitalism and community empowerment practices at the levels of institutions, in community spaces, and markets as they navigate broader structures of racial and gender inequality. Our participants challenge structural ethnoracial and gender exclusion via entrepreneurial endeavors in finance that aim to address gender and racial gaps in access to commercial capital, by opening Latino coffee shops rooted in community and feminist ideology, and by fashioning physical and digital makers markets grounded in Chicana/Latina Feminisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the book's conclusion, Paul links her findings regarding stepwise migration with those of colleagues examining similar phenomena among various migrant populations. Finally, Paul offers suggestions for the creation of policies in both migrant-sending and -receiving countries that will benefit migrants and the societies with which they are linked. Exquisitely researched and grounded in inventive applications of theory (notably Bourdieu's work on capital), I Multinational Maids i is a major contribution to the study of international migration as Paul demonstrates that migrant domestic workers are agentically practicing stepwise labor migration across multiple countries as a long-term mobility strategy. [Extracted from the article]