The Network for Migrant Entrepreneurs to Scale Up and Grow (M-UP)
aims to promote and seek to new opportunities for creation and growth of migrant enterprises, through the participation of public and private actors from 10 different countries.
Latest Case Studies
Semir Sakic
Semir Sakic's story in Germany began, like so many others, starting with flight from a war. At the age of six, he fled with his family in an old VW bus from his home village Prijepolje in Serbia across many borders to Germany. He has been living in Offenbach ever...
Latest M-UP News
IGNITE 2018 – M-UP Workshop: Migrant Entrepreneurship Matters
This year, SPARK’s 6th annual IGNITE conference on ‘Rebuilding Futures’ in Amsterdam brought together almost 400 entrepreneurs, policymakers, NGOs and other stakeholders, offering the unique chance to discuss new solutions to the issues of higher education and...
Policies and Resources
“Call Me a Business Owner, Not a Refugee!” Challenges of and Perspectives on Newcomer Entrepreneurship – WRC Research Paper No. 7
Written by UBNA RASHID:Participating in the labour market is vital to newcomers’ successful integration in the host country. Although most newcomers participate through wage earning, some start their own businesses. Refugee entrepreneurship has substantial benefits...
read morePlacing Migrant Entrepreneurship: Migrant Economy Debates through New Spatial Lenses
Written by Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia, Berta Güell, Sònia Parella, José Luis Molina, Miranda Jessica Lubbers:The category of space is essential in migration studies and it is implicitly present in the literature about migrant entrepreneurs. However, there is a lack of...
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Migrant Entrepreneurs
Policy Makers
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Upcoming Event:
M-UP Workshop
3rd – 5th April 2019 – Barcelona, Spain
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This website is part of the project Network for Migrant Entrepreneurs to Scale Up and Grow — EMEN-UP (no. 764398) which has received funding from the European Union’s COSME Programme (2014-2020)
The Network for Migrant Entrepreneurs to Scale Up and Grow