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.
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Rahel Zemuye combines Eritrean fabrics with European styles
Rahel Zemuye can hardly remember her arrival to Germany many years ago. She was too small when she escaped the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia with her single mother and her two siblings - but what she remembers is that Eritrean culture has always been part of her...
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MoneyGram Awards 2019
A MoneyGram Award is born in 2009 and it was the first italian award for migrant entrepreneurs. It rewards the courage and the dedication that it took to implement new business ideas by migrant entrepreneurs, in a country that was not home, but it is become. On the...
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“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