Entrepreneurship as Survival and Empowerment
About this episode
Dr. Sophie Alkhaled discusses how entrepreneurship serves as a means of survival and empowerment for women refugees.
How can marginalised people find a new identity through entrepreneurship? How do women help their families survive in foreign lands by undertaking new endeavours? And all of this when ‘most of all, they just want to go home’. Dr Sophie Alkhaled, Director of the Academy for Gender Equality and Social Justice Research in Organisations in Lancaster University Management School, joins us to talk about the lives of refugees in camps and communities outside their homelands, and how women there have discovered business to help their families live. She tells us how her personal life experience and heritage shaped her interest in both refugees and gender equity, from seeing her mother prohibited from driving in Saudi Arabia, to living under the Assad regime in Syria, and travelling to refugee camps that are home to her countrymen and women. We find out how millions of Syrians were forced to flee their homeland, how entrepreneurship takes hold in unexpected places, and how women came to reimagine what an entrepreneur and business leader is as they try to make sure they have food on the table. Sophie tells us how entrepreneurship is a means of survival and empowerment for these women; how…
People in this episode
Guest: Dr Sophie Alkhaled
Topics covered
- entrepreneurship
- refugees
- gender equity
- survival
- empowerment
- marginalised communities
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Academy for Gender Equality and Social Justice Research in Organisations, Lancaster University Management School
Places: Saudi Arabia, Syria
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