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The current stage of migrant entrepreneurship appears to be formed at the intersection of the golden age of entrepreneurship and the age of migration (DeMers, 2016; Baycan-Levent and Nijkamp, 2007; Dana and Morris, 2007; Irastorza and Peña, 2014; Castles et al., 2013). Both the phenomena of migration and entrepreneurship seem to have been enabled, on the one hand, by processes of globalization, development of technologies, establishment of new migration routes and discovery of new markets. On the other hand, recent crucial geopolitical changes and high unemployment rate in many European countries made entrepreneurship the only feasible way to earn a living. In this modern economic era, particularly those countries characterized by meritocratic thinking, flexible labour market, simple establishment procedures, favourable fiscal regimes, successful accommodation of ethnic diversity manage to become the global hubs of business, innovations and development (Baycan-Levent and Nijkamp, 2007; Dana and Morris, 2007; Portes and Yiu, 2013; Drori et al., 2010). These new economic and social practices of states as well as stemming from them values have been labeled as “entrepreneurial economy” or “enterprise culture”(Baycan-Levent and Nijkamp, 2007, p. 1; Jones et al., 2012, p. 3163). Migrants appear to be the crucial actors in this economic system,“the lifeblood of this dynamism” as Ensign and Robinson (2011, p. 36) put it. Migrant became “agents of change” who are supposed to bring new business practices and ideas, rise competitiveness, create jobs, establish cooperation, rise life satisfaction, increase attractiveness of …