摘要：The highest number of forcibly displaced people has been currently recorded due to
war, poverty, and climate change. Recently, a process that recognizes refugees as
reliable interlocutors for the improvement of reception policies has started. Refugees
are therefore encouraged to start up social enterprises aimed at fostering newcomers’
social integration to participate to such a phenomenon. Positive Psychology, with its
focus on human strengths, allows to identify the resources that pushed refugees to turn
the difficulties they faced during the journey and the resettlement process into resources
for themselves and for the resettlement community. The following paper explores in
particular the interplay between social and psychological capital that is at the base of
a similar social entrepreneurship project through a case study. A qualitative research
has been carried out within a social enterprise with a migratory background to analyze
the internal and relational resources that brought founders to start up the venture.
Results show that while social and psychological capital were independently activated
to start from scratch in the resettlement community, they occurred in interrelation in
a subsequent phase when participants transformed their direct experiences related to
migration into the human capital of their enterprise.
关键词：Psychological Capital; social capital; Entrepreneurship; Social integration; Refugee
