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Roli Varma 's book, Harbingers of Global Change, offers a penetrating analysis of how India 's highly educated techno-immigrants hit a Silicon Ceiling that keeps them out of management, whether they work in U.S. universities, government, and industry. Varma 's book is a must-read for anyone interested in the Asian Diasporia of scientists of engineers, how scientific identity is negotiated across different cultures, and how we, as a members of a knowledge society, can begin to (re) model a 'model minority.'--Sheila Slaughter

Roli Varma s book, Harbingers of Global Change, offers a penetrating analysis of how India s highly educated techno-immigrants hit a Silicon Ceiling that keeps them out of management, whether they work in U.S. universities, government, and industry. Varma s book is a must-read for anyone interested in the Asian Diasporia of scientists of engineers, how scientific identity is negotiated across different cultures, and how we, as a members of a knowledge society, can begin to (re) model a 'model minority.'--Sheila Slaughter

Roli Varma s book, Harbingers of Global Change, offers a penetrating analysis of how India s highly educated techno-immigrants hit a Silicon Ceiling that keeps them out of management, whether they work in U.S. universities, government, and industry. Varma s book is a must-read for anyone interested in the Asian Diasporia of scientists of engineers, how scientific identity is negotiated across different cultures, and how we, as a members of a knowledge society, can begin to (re) model a 'model minority.'--Sheila Slaughter

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Roli Varma is currently Regents Lecturer and associate professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

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