Tech-Based Rural Development, Immigrant Investors, and the New Crossroads of Global Inequalities

Abstract

This paper examines the cases of two failed technology-based rural businesses funded in part by immigrant investors through the EB5 visa program. The cases illustrate how multiple global-scale networks of power and authority... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Shaun Golding (Kenyon College)
  2. Monica Brannon (Park University)

Topic Area

Rural Policy

Session

SID.08 » Entrepreneurship, Business, and Development in Rural Spaces (09:30 - Sunday, 29th July, Jantzen)