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Builders of the Broken Bazaar

Builders of the Broken Bazaar

Released: 2025-08-10
© Tabish Zaman 2025
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2 Episodes
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2 Episodes
Audio
Listen on Apple Podcasts
Released: 2025-08-10
© Tabish Zaman 2025
Most Recent Episode
When Survival Gets Marketed as Entrepreneurship

When Survival Gets Marketed as Entrepreneurship

Episode 2 - From Camps to ‘Startups’: The Cost of Ignoring Root Causes Refugee entrepreneurship, displacement by design, and the marketisation of survival — this episode of Builders of the Broken Bazaar confronts a hard truth: many refugee Kakuma
Time: 32:01
Episode 2 - When Survival Gets Marketed as Entrepreneurship
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 → charity → market-based solutions.Why we must de-economise entrepreneurship in crisis contexts.
If you care about human dignity, economic justice, and the truth behind the “success stories,” this episode will change how you see entrepreneurship in the context of displacement.
🎧 Listen & subscribe for more stories that challenge the mainstream narrative of business, migration, and resilience.
🌍 Website: buildersofthebrokenbazaar.com
🎥 TikTok: @buildersofthebrokenbazaar
📸 Instagram: @buildersofthebrokenbazaar
Host: Dr. Tabish Zaman
Editor: Liam Gadsby
#RefugeeEntrepreneurship #DisplacementByDesign #SurvivalNotStartups #ForcedMigration #SocialJustice #HumanRights #MarketisationOfDisplacement #DeEconomisingEntrepreneurship
Episode ID: 1000721325210
GUID: ad315ec4-875b-4ac4-9136-85531f3aeea3
Release Date: 10/08/2025, 03:22:53

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We live in a broken world—fractured by inequality, displacement, and systemic neglect. Yet entrepreneurship is still sold as a race toward limitless profit and unsustainable growth. This economisation erases those building businesses out of necessity, care, and survival. The dominant narrative glorifies corporations while silencing small businesses fronted by migrant, refugee, and informal entrepreneurs who create real, lived social value. Builders of the Broken Bazaar exists to challenge that silence and centre voices from the margins.

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