Abstract

This study takes into account the concept of ‘refugee entrepreneurship’ and ‘forms of capital’ to examine how the Turkey-based Syrian refugee businesspeople sustain and expand their businesses based on their pre-emigration nonsocial capital, namely their economic, cultural, and symbolic capital. The data are based on 36 semi-structured and in-depth interviews with Syrian refugee businesspeople in Istanbul and Gaziantep. I argue that refugees can establish and settle their lives in an active way rather than passively reacting to the challenges they have encountered from their hosts due to the capital they used to possess and brought to their host countries.

摘要

本研究考虑了“难民创业”和“资本形式”的概念，以研究居住在土耳其的叙利亚难民商人如何根据他们移民前的非社会资本，即他们的经济、文化和象征性资本，来维持和扩大他们的企业。首都。这些数据基于对伊斯坦布尔和加济安泰普的叙利亚难民商人进行的 36 次半结构化深度访谈。我认为，难民可以以积极的方式建立和安定自己的生活，而不是被动地应对东道主因他们曾经拥有并带到东道国的资本而遇到的挑战。