The role of business
The role of business
Traditionally, humanitarian actors have viewed the private sector with scepticism, but recently there has been a global-level move towards exploring the potential contribution of business to refugee protection and assistance. Nevertheless, the debate on business and refugees is often characterized by clichés of what business is. Drawing on examples from within Uganda to broader trends in the wider world, this chapter develops a typology of the motives and modes of engagement of business in the global refugee regime that goes beyond an assumption that it is simply about multinational corporations engaging in philanthropy or corporate social responsibility. Business exists at the global, national, local, and transnational levels, and is motivated to engage with refugees for a wide variety of reasons—philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, innovation, access to labour, and social enterprise. The chapter considers how we can think analytically and normatively about the role of business in global refugee issues.
Keywords: business, entrepreneurship, refugees, private sector, multinational corporations, social enterprise
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