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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis +2 more
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Immigrants and Billion Dollar Startups [PDF]
, 2016 Immigrants play a key role in creating new, fast-growing companies, as evidenced by the prevalence of foreignborn founders and key personnel in the nation's leading privately-held companies.
Stuart Anderson
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Supply of Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Native Entrepreneurship [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 Abstract Using nationally representative data from the United States, the author estimates the causal impact of immigrant entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial propensities of natives. The author draws data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey and uses within-state variation in supply of immigrant
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
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The effect of entrepreneurial orientation on the performance of immigrant-owned SMMEs in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2019 Small, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs) contribute significantly to the economy of developing countries including South Africa. These enterprises face a number of challenges and it is reported that the majority of SMMEs fail within a short period of ...
Chimucheka, Tendai +2 more
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What About Eco‐Populism? A Neglected Historical Tradition
Constellations, EarlyView.
Federico Tarragoni
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Immigrant entrepreneurs' survival seeking via financial strategies
Insights into Regional DevelopmentImmigrant entrepreneurs are known to face challenges securing funding from conventional sources, prompting them to devise alternative strategies. Assuming bootstrapping is a method for generating capital without incurring debt or relinquishing equity ...
Philemon Nji Kum +3 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2016 Objective: This research seeks new ways in which the socio-cultural capital and human capital of immigrants can be used as a resource in business life in Lapland - a sparsely populated area and new immigrant-receiving region. Immigrants are a vulnerable
Nafisa Yeasmin
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