Seeking homo economicus: The Canadian state and the strange story of the business immigration program

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 426-441

  Ley, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian state; Globalization; Immigrant entrepreneurs; Official statistics; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; GLOBALIZATION; IMMIGRANT POPULATION;

EID: 0442305864     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8306.9302010     Document Type: Article

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