From Camps to ‘Startups’: The Cost of Ignoring Root Causes

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Host: Dr. Tabish Zaman

Editor: Liam Gadsby

Refugee entrepreneurship, displacement by design, and the marketisation of survival — this episode of Builders of the Broken Bazaar confronts a hard truth: many refugee Kakumasses aren’t passion projects, they’re acts of survival.

Every 30 hours, a new billionaire is created. Every 33 hours, a million people fall into extreme poverty. Over 120 million people are displaced worldwide — not by accident, but by political choices, economic extraction, and systemic neglect. From Gaza to the West Bank, from Kakuma refugee camp to Germany’s Syrian refugee communities, displaced people are 1.5× more likely to become entrepreneurs than host populations. Not out of choice, but because every other door has been closed.

We unpack:

 • How displacement by design fuels forced migration.
 • Why refugee entrepreneurship is framed as “success” while root causes are ignored.
 • The global shift from state responsibility to charity to market-based solutions.
 • Why we must de-economise entrepreneurship in crisis contexts.

If you care about human dignity, economic justice, and truth behind the “success stories,” this episode will change how you see entrepreneurship in the context of displacement.

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