Quelle place et quels enjeux pour les entreprises sociales d'insertion en Belgique ?

This paper presents an overview of the landscape of Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) in Belgium. These work integration social enterprises have as a major objective to help poorly qualified unemployed people, who are at risk of permanent exclusion from the labor market, back into work and society in general through a productive activity. We analyze their processes of emergence and their progressive enrolment within public policies frameworks. We investigate their objectives and their potential benefits for the excluded workers and the specific kind of market and non-market resources used. We conclude underlining the tension between institutionalization and autonomy lived by these work integration social enterprise.