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The other immigrants: how the super-rich skirt quotas and closed borders

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imageSo many Chinese immigrants have come to Vancouver, it's been nicknamed Hongcouver.isabelle_puaut/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

The mass media are filled with images of desperate refugees struggling to escape civil unrest. But it is not only the poor and the displaced who are on the move. The rich, especially from countries such as...

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