Refugee entrepreneurship in Belgium: Potential and practice |
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Authors: | Bram Wauters Johan Lambrecht |
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Institution: | (1) Research Centre for Entrepreneurship, European University College Brussels (EHSAL) and Catholic University of Brussels (KU Brussel), Stormstraat 2, 1000 Brussels, Belgium |
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Abstract: | By promoting refugee entrepreneurship, both the integration of refugees in society can be aided and domestic entrepreneurship can be boosted. Refugee entrepreneurship has been an underdeveloped domain of scientific research though. There clearly exists a potential for refugee entrepreneurship in Belgium, but this is too seldom realized in practice. Male refugees who have been self-employed in the past and whose family is active as an entrepreneur have a higher appetite for entrepreneurship. Refugee entrepreneurs are mostly male, in their thirties and forties and active in ‘inferior’ sectors. It was also found that refugee entrepreneurs earn less than other entrepreneurs. |
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Keywords: | Refugees Asylum Migration Ethnicentrepreneurship Minority groups Belgium |
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