Refugee entrepreneurship in Belgium: Potential and practice

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 509-525

  Wauters, Bram ^a   Lambrecht, Johan ^a  

^a Campus Parnas   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Asylum; Belgium; Ethnicentrepreneurship; Migration; Minority groups; Refugees

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751093328     PISSN: 15547191     EISSN: 15551938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11365-006-0008-x     Document Type: Article

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