Social entrepreneurship addressing the challenges and opportunities of international migration: A review of the literature

The increasing salience of international migration is generating both opportunities and challenges in migrants’ home and host countries, but appears to be a complex phenomenon in light of the multiple individual, organizational, and contextual characteristics and boundaries involved. This complexity has fostered the necessity to experiment with different solutions dealing with migrants’ needs and prospects. Social entrepreneurship seems to be an appropriate tool in this regard, since it applies business logics to provide social solutions and generate impact by contributing to solving grand challenges – such as those linked to international migration. In this paper, we systematically review the growing, but fragmented, academic literature linking the domains of social entrepreneurship and migration. We derive suggestions for future theoretical and empirical research and formulate practical recommendations from a policy and practice perspective.