The Paris Agreement set policy scenarios to address mitigating against the climate emergency, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions limit temperature increase 1.5°C. There has been a drive toward electrifying transport, with battery electric vehicles (BEVs) at forefront. Reliance on single-technology development can lead consequential impacts, often not considered, or dismissed. Energy cannot be...

Sugar dictated the fortunes of many countries in British Empire nineteenth century. With abolition slavery, thousands indentured labour or coolies from Indian subcontinent, filled gap. The word coolie was derogatory, referring to a marginalized underclass, whereas coolitude evokes and acknowledges agency. Our article revolves around question: How does historical lens evoke understandings ethnic...

Geneticists worry that their patients and the patients’ families will be subject to unfair discrimination by medical underwriters when the results of DNA tests show that the patients are predisposed to certain diseases. They point out that these individuals may be healthy at the time the test is carried out and that, without the test, they would be considered standard insurance risks. This appr...

Using data from a survey of rural-urban migrants in X City, China, this paper investigates the relationships between migrant-resident ties and migrant integration. Migrant integration is assessed with respect to three dimensions: acculturation, socioeconomic integration, and psychological integration. We divide migrant networks into three categories: kin resident ties, non-kin resident ties, an...

Using surname distributions, we compare long run social mobility rates for elite and underclass groups in India 1860-2012, with those of other societies such as Sweden and the USA. It is not clear whether recent social mobility rates in India should be higher or lower than in the West. The caste system notoriously embedded privilege in elite castes. But since Independence a quota of places in h...

Life insurers have used medical information, particularly family histories, for underwriting purposes for more than a century. The practice of using genetic test information began in earnest in the 1990s when DNA diagnostic tests became a more common part of medical records.* 1 Since then, the equity of this practice has been a pressing matter of public policy. Recent research has documented a ...