Serious Games: Charting Refugee Entrepreneurial Journeys Through Novel Analytic Mapping

“More than 90% of global new settlement needs are unmet” according to UNHCR [20]. Among those displaced are refugees and asylum seekers—seeking new life and opportunities in Australia. Despite challenges in reassimilating into foreign society, some strive to become successful entrepreneurs. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 15 such -refugee and asylum seeker-entrepreneurs in Australia; documenting and mapping their journeys. This pictorial presents a novel annotative mapping tool to present (1) the supporting role of organizations, community, and family in facilitating entrepreneurial success; and (2) the role of digital platforms in self-learning, professional skill development and, achieving business goals. The main contributions of this pictorial highlight emergent strategies that demonstrate the resilience of refugee and asylum seeker entrepreneurs overcoming and navigating extraordinary circumstances. We present a novel analytic mapping tool for researchers and designers to reformat, visualize, and analyse complex participant journeys.