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“Lachak” and the Normalization of Nonbelonging: Skilled Migration, Symbolic Capital, and Settlement in Canada

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how skilled Pakistani newcomers to Canada experience and make sense of the loss of recognition associated with their prior professional identities following migration. Drawing on 43 life‐history interviews in the Greater Toronto Area, I use the Urdu word lachak (flexibility) to describe how my interlocutors lower ...
Hammad Khan
wiley   +1 more source

The Sanitization of the Night: Gentrification and the Everyday Temporal Politics in Belgrade

open access: yesCity &Society, Volume 38, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Urban scholarship increasingly recognizes that processes such as gentrification unfold not only through spatial transformations, but through shifts in sensory environments and everyday rhythms. In this paper, drawing on twenty‐three months of fieldwork in Belgrade, I examine how urban redevelopment (re)organizes time for middle‐class people ...
Alexandra Dantzer
wiley   +1 more source

Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 1052-1081, August 2026.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies: What we know, what we don't (but should) know

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 871-899, August 2026.
Abstract In recent years economic inequality has become a major research topic in economic history. However, much remains to be done to complete our knowledge of long‐term distributive dynamics. This article highlights several promising avenues for future research, focusing on the preindustrial period.
Guido Alfani
wiley   +1 more source

The Returns to Education: A Meta‐Study

open access: yesKyklos, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 608-628, August 2026.
ABSTRACT There have been many studies estimating the causal effect of an additional year of education on earnings. The majority employ administrative changes in the minimum school‐leaving age as the mechanism allowing identification. Here, we survey 79 such estimates.
Gregory Clark   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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