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Patent Pending: How Immigrants Are Reinventing the American Economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The future of the American economy rests on our ability to innovate and invent the new products that will define the global economy in the decades ahead.

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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

America's Loss Is the World's Gain: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part IV [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Analyzes survey data on highly educated Indian and Chinese workers and students who returned home from the United States -- their characteristics, motivations for coming to and leaving the U.S., professional success, and odds of returning to the U ...
Alex Salkever   +4 more
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Out There No One Has a Right to Die

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
wiley   +1 more source

Municipal Economic Development “Key Sectors”: Do Priorities Match Realities?

open access: yesCanadian Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores whether municipal economic development priorities align with Canada's changing economy and workforce and whether these same priorities address the employment needs of municipalities' working‐age residents. Our analysis draws on census division and census subdivision data from the 2021 Canadian Census and our own original ...
Aaron A. Moore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Behind the Curtain: COVID‐19 as a Lens to Precarity in Museum Labor

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using in‐depth interviews with emerging and early professional museum workers in New Orleans, Louisiana, this article expands on scholarship around the perceived and actual value of nonprofit labor. It adds qualitative support to the argument that museum labor is real labor—open to exploitation and abuse while constantly negotiated internally ...
Miriam Taylor Fair
wiley   +1 more source

Isbaaro: Checkpoints and World Making beyond the State in Somalia

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the dynamics of checkpoint authority in Somalia, focusing on how kinship, mobility and checkpoint practices intersect to shape political and social orders. Challenging the notion that checkpoint governance is either an expression of state‐like power or indicative of the state's absence, the authors argue that Somali ...
Peer Schouten   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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