Disasters and Ethnic Minority Women Entrepreneurs: A Critical Review

Description

This paper consists with a critical analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent economic crisis on Ethnic Minority Women Entrepreneurs (EMWEs) in Sri Lanka. It produces syntheses of international and global scholarship so as to examine the intersection of gendered susceptibility and ethnic susceptibility with the predicaments of disasters in entrepreneurship. Using the Resilience Theory and Intersectionality as the analytical tools, the paper evaluates the limitations of the existing studies critically and specifies the main theoretical, contextual, and methodological gaps. The review suggests a conceptual framework defining the directions of how the two disasters affect adaptive strategies and resilience outcomes of EMWEs. Results show that the available literature was mostly descriptive, under-theorised and biased to Global North settings, thus highlighting the urgency of context-specific models in the Global South. The study will add to the post-crisis recovery and inclusive development agenda of Sri Lanka
by incorporating the crisis entrepreneurship perspective, the gender perspective, and the intersectional resilience perspective. The study contributes by integrating crisis
entrepreneurship, gender, and intersectional resilience perspectives relevant to Sri Lanka's post-crisis recovery and inclusive development agenda.

Period	12 Dec 2025 → 14 Dec 2025
Event title	16th International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment and Next-Gen Innovation & Advancement (DIAMOND 75)
Event type	Conference
Location	Kandy, Sri LankaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International