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Stories of Migrant Smuggling: The Soft Power of Djiboutian Smugglers

Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2023
This article analyses the links between the recruitment of new generations of smugglers and storytelling of the nocturnal “adventures” of former smugglers in Djibouti.
Alexandre Lauret
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
wiley   +1 more source

Legitimacy and Rationalization in European Criminal Law: A Critical Analysis of the Criminalization of Migrant Smuggling

University of Bologna Law Review
The article critically examines the legitimacy of European criminal law through the perspective of migrant smuggling incrimination. By analyzing the complex intersection of legal principles and migration policies, the research investigates whether ...
Raquel Cardoso
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SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES IN APROACHING THE MIGRANT SMUGGLING OFFENCE [PDF]

Legea și Viața
This article examines the special investigative techniques widely used in the investigation of the migrant smuggling, highlighting the specifics and particularities of these procedures.
Gina-Aurora NECULA
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
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Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio, Ariel Lopez, Birgit Tremml‐Werner   +2 more
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The Smuggling of Migrants from Libyan Shores to Italy: Changes After the End of the Gaddafi Dictatorship

Quaderni di Sociologia, 2020
The article analyses the organisation of migrant smuggling from Sub-Saharan African countries to Italy, with a particular focus on Libya. It also examines how this activity changed after the end of the Gaddafi dictatorship.
Stefano Becucci
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Nurturing Futures: Foster Carer Perspectives on Looking After Unaccompanied Asylum‐Seeking Children With Histories of Trafficking

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents the findings of a small‐scale qualitative study exploring the experiences of Foster Carers looking after unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC) who are identified or suspected victims of child trafficking (‘UASTC’—unaccompanied asylum‐seeking and trafficked children).
Rosie Galbraith
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Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
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