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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of emmer wheat genetics resources aimed at dietary food production [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Emmer wheat cultivated by organic farmers is used as a component of some bio (organic) food products. Its positive influence on consumer health is caused by grain composition.
Bradova, J.   +11 more
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

Distribution of trace elements in crude oils of some oil fields West-Siberian and Volga-Urals provinces

open access: yesЛитосфера, 2015
The results of analysis trace elements distribution, including REE and PGE, in crude oils of several oil fields of Volga-Urals and West-Siberian oil-gas provinces (either terrigenous or carbonate reservoirs) are discussed in this paper.
A. V. Maslov   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Approaching Transhumanism: On How Human Beings Transform in the 21st Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The following article is to introduce the reader into a cultural and intellectual movement whose aim is to identify the need for improvement in human life in the sphere of physicality as well as mentality with the aid of modern technologies ...
Wendykowska, Emilia
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Skilled for Whom? Immigration Policy, Racial Capitalism, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Britain

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the theory of social reproduction, and intersectionality, it interrogates how the state's construction of the ‘skilled migrant’ operates as a ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of genetic mutations in development of metabolic disturbances in patients with arterial hypertension [PDF]

open access: yesСаратовский научно-медицинский журнал, 2012
<p>The article stresses on the study of molecular markers of essential arterial hypertension providing insight into the pathological mechanisms underlying the disease and creation of «genetic passport» for every patient in the future. Objective: To
Borodulin V.B.   +8 more
doaj  

Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

The INRAE Biological Resource Center ‘BrACySol’: a French centre of valuable Brassica, Allium and Solanum genetic resources for breeding

open access: yesGenetic Resources
The INRAE Biological Resource Center ‘BrACySol’ belongs to BRC4Plants, the plant network of the French Research Infrastructure of Agronomic Biological Resource Centers (AgroBRC-RARe).
Florence Esnault   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contract Labour, Job Quality and Turnover Intention—Evidence From Nigeria

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Labour contracting, where intermediaries provide farmers with migrant workers, plays a central role in meeting the demand for seasonal labour on labour‐intensive farms. Yet this system poses underresearched challenges for both workers and farmers.
Olayinka Aremu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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