Refugee Entrepreneurship A Case-based Topography
Through a global series of case studies, this pioneering book delves into refugee entrepreneurship - a major economic, political and social issue emerging as a top priority. Stories from Australia, Germany, Pakistan and many other countries, highlight the
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efugee Entrepreneurship A Case-based Topography
Refugee Entrepreneurship
Sibylle Heilbrunn • Jörg Freiling Aki Harima Editors
Refugee Entrepreneurship A Case-based Topography
Editors Sibylle Heilbrunn School of Social Sciences and Humanities Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee Zemach, Sea of Galilee, Israel
Jörg Freiling LEMEX University of Bremen Bremen, Germany
Aki Harima LEMEX University of Bremen Bremen, Germany
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Foreword
Seventh of May, 2018. It is glorious summer as I write this piece today. The pristine blue canopies, the peace of humming bees in mellow, late afternoon sunshine in England. Everything is right with the world. But all things solid melt into air. On Wednesday, May 2 2018, a Syrian refugee living in Scotland is found critically injured after an alleged racist attack, while, earlier, one weekend in January, a group of around a hundred masked neo-Nazis marched in an illegal demonstration through the city center of Cottbus in Germany. The dialectic of the refugee experience is lost in this search for peace from danger, only to be confronted with a mix of existential and physical threats and its corollary: hate. Into these shadows, across country borders walk the 20 million refugees (out of 65 million destitute people). While technology and entrepreneurship has made it possible to have white gold, pink mobile phones with which to court artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reali
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