Sirmans, founder of the Sirmans Global Impact Foundation, debuts with a convincing case for hiring and investing in refugees ... Filled with inspiring stories and calls for compassion, this will help business owners see refugees in a new light.

Publishers Weekly

Today war and conflict have forced one out of every 67 people to flee home. In this essential book for our time, Dalton Sirmans illuminates a path to a better future – one that recognizes refugees' honed instincts for survival and entrepreneurship. Read The Refugee Advantage! It may just change how you think and act.

Sasha Chanoff, Founder and CEO, RefugePoint, and co-author of From Crisis to Calling: Finding Your Moral Center in the Toughest Decisions

The Refugee Advantage offers compelling evidence of how refugee-led business creates real benefits for locals and newcomers alike, through innovation, enterprise, and bold new partnerships. What makes this book stand out is its powerful, first-hand stories – centred on the voices of refugee entrepreneurs and leaders with lived experience of forced migration.

Frederic Kastner, Director of Social Innovation, TERN

Dalton T. Sirmans reveals a fresh new perspective in response to the politically charged migration and refugee issues. If only The Refugee Advantage was shared among leaders in business, politics, civil society and considered in policy and economic decision-making opportunities to reveal the positive possibilities. The book is a riveting revelation of displacement challenges and opportunities. We must all take the time to learn about the perspectives and potential successes of refugees to fully appreciate a global society influenced by resources, resilience and opportunity.

Rose Cardarelli, Ed.D., CEO, Education for All Coalition & Rotary International Representative to UNICEF

By highlighting the resilience, strength and perseverance of refugees, not only does it allow readers to connect with real people, their stories, journeys, dreams and hopes, but it also demonstrates how they, when provided with the right opportunities, can contribute entrepreneurial value, diverse skills and new approaches to the workforce of the society that hosts them. It provides the arguments we need to challenge the often-repeated myth that refugees are merely economic burdens.

Dr Vasileia Digidiki, Instructor, Director of the summer course on migration and refugee studies, Harvard FXB program on distress migration, Harvard University

A clear, compelling and original perspective on the importance of welcoming refugees into our midst. At a time when the humanity and generosity underlying our approach to those forced to flee for their lives is under political threat, this book provides a most welcome and persuasive set of counter arguments.

Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health