Ana Alvarez had already built a remarkable career in her home Country Costa Rica when coming to Germany. But here she quickly realized that she was a “nobody”. After humiliating appointments at the german Job-Centers she did what she knew best: She went to (net) work. An in depth conversation about migrant resilience, german bureaucracy, why it’s so hard to stop caring and what she would have loved to know before she founded Migrapreneur.

https://app.migrapreneur.org/

(02:50) Passport Control

(09:40) Job Interview

(13:55) Cliché-Check

(21:25) Childhood in Costa Rica, Lying for Work, Ministry of Finance

(32:55) Humbled, Humiliated, Depressed – Welcome to Germany

(51:30) Migrants becoming entrepreneurs: good idea or mistake?

(1:15:00) "I care about Humans"

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