Entrepreneurship education for refugees : Suggestions on individual resilience development
: Kansikas, Juha; Seikkula-Leino, Jaana
: Ranabahu, Nadeera; de Vries, Huibert P.; Hamilton, Robert T.
: 2025
: Refugee Entrepreneurship : A Research Companion
: Routledge Research Companions in Business and Economics
: 236
: 250
: 978-1-032-43712-5
: 978-1-003-36854-0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003368540-18
: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003368540-18
This chapter aims to develop an understanding of individual resilience among refugees, and the opportunities it creates for new developments in entrepreneurship education. It presents research initiatives while concluding that individual resilience is a complex entrepreneurial asset. It is needed to cope with the changing circumstances, anxiety, and stress that refugee entrepreneurs face. Individual resilience reflects the current and previous socio-organisational experiences of potential refugees and is not just a subjective, person-based experience. The role of refugee entrepreneurship education is to offer initiatives that will take into account experiences and social capital of participants. These solutions should be unique, and when successful, they can foster individual resilience among refugee entrepreneurs.