In the context of a greater focus on the politics of migration, the ‘refugee entrepreneur’ has become an increasingly important figure in humanitarian, media, and academic portrayals of refugees. Through a focus on Jordan's Za‘tari refugee camp, which has been deemed a showcase for refugees’ ‘entrepreneurship’, this article argues that the designation of Syrian refugees as ‘entrepreneurs’ is a positioning of Syrians within colonial hierarchies of race that pervade humanitarian work. For many humanitarian workers in Jordan, Syrians' ‘entrepreneurship’ distinguishes them from ‘African’ refugees, who are imagined as passive, impoverished, and dependent on humanitarian largesse. Without explicit racial comparisons, humanitarian agencies simultaneously market Syrian refugees online as ‘entrepreneurs’, to enable them to be perceived as closer to whiteness, and to thereby render them more acceptable to Western audiences and donors, who are imagined as white. This article extends scholarly understandings of the understudied relationship between race and humanitarianism. Furthermore, it asks critical questions about the political work and effects of vision of the ‘refugee entrepreneur’, which it locates within the context of the increasingly neoliberalised refugee regime. ‘Refugee entrepreneurs’ do not need political support and solidarity, but to be allowed to embrace the forces of free-market capitalism.

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“#Refugees 也可以成为企业家！” 人道主义、种族和叙利亚难民的营销

在更加关注移民政治的背景下，“难民企业家”已成为人道主义、媒体和学术描绘难民中越来越重要的人物。通过关注约旦的扎塔里难民营，该难民营被认为是难民“企业家精神”的展示，本文认为，将叙利亚难民指定为“企业家”是叙利亚人在殖民种族等级制度中的一种定位，这种等级制度遍布人道主义。工作。对于约旦的许多人道主义工作者来说，叙利亚人的“企业家精神”将他们与“非洲”难民区分开来，后者被认为是被动的、贫困的并依赖人道主义援助。在没有明确的种族比较的情况下，人道主义机构同时在网上将叙利亚难民推销为“企业家”，使他们被认为更接近白人，从而使他们更容易为被想象为白人的西方观众和捐助者所接受。本文扩展了对种族与人道主义之间未被充分研究的关系的学术理解。此外，它提出了关于“难民企业家”的政治工作和愿景的影响的关键问题，它位于日益新自由主义化的难民制度的背景下。“难民企业家”不需要政治支持和团结，而是被允许拥抱自由市场资本主义的力量。它提出了关于“难民企业家”的政治工作和愿景的影响的关键问题，并将其置于日益新自由主义化的难民制度的背景下。“难民企业家”不需要政治支持和团结，而是被允许拥抱自由市场资本主义的力量。它提出了关于“难民企业家”的政治工作和愿景的影响的关键问题，并将其置于日益新自由主义化的难民制度的背景下。“难民企业家”不需要政治支持和团结，而是被允许拥抱自由市场资本主义的力量。