Refai, Deema;
Lever, John;
Haloub, Radi;
(2024)
Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees.
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
, 36
(3-4)
10.1080/08985626.2023.2297388.
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Abstract
Drawing on a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in constrained immigration contexts in the North of England, this article explores refugees’ perceptions of integration and social exclusion through entrepreneurship. By exploring refugee experiences as they engage in entrepreneurship programmes or business start-ups, our findings highlight a divide among refugees with the means to start-up businesses successfully and those without. The article contributes to understanding entrepreneurship as a tool for refugees that indicates dyadic outcomes of idiosyncratic integration among equipped refugees and liminal integration among vulnerable refugees. The article extends our appreciation of the nuance in entrepreneurship, and develops liminality debates by stressing the transformative nature of refugee journeys that involve cross-domain transitions characterized by multiple separations. We call for the acknowledgement of refugee heterogeneity in neoliberal economies in ways that encompass holistic views of integration beyond the current focus on economic contributions at the expense of all else.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08985626.2023.2297388 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2023.2297388 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Constrained contexts; entrepreneurship; immigration; integration; liminality; Syrian refugees |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187073 |
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