“…Historical research on "ethnic entrepreneurs" predominantly focused on migrants of black, Hispanic, or Asian heritage in the context of the United States (Aldrich & Waldinger, 1990), and more recently on Turkish, Surinamese, or Carribean heritage in the context of Netherlands (Rath & Kloosterman, 2000) who also often must "rise from the bottom." This is, however, not the case with expat-preneursindividuals who choose out of volition, not necessity, to temporarily live abroad and initiate a new international venture opportunity in a host country and are coming from a position of privilege (Vance et al, 2016). There is a clear lack of knowledge about such entrepreneurs, as recently found by Vance et al (2016) and Girling and Bamwenda (2018).…”