Results 61 to 70 of about 21,342 (217)

State Integration and Violence at the Margins: The Logic of Police Raids in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates police raids in Rio de Janeiro's favelas through a property rights framework, exploring their organisational structure, motivations and implications. Using data from police reports, academic studies, NGOs and news sources, it examines why and how the state intervenes in these contested spaces.
Joseph Bouchard
wiley   +1 more source

Combating Migrant Smuggling by Sea: Analysis of EU Action Plan Against Migrant Smuggling and Standards of Migrant Smuggling Protocol

open access: yesTransactions on Maritime Science
Migrant smuggling is one of the main issues challenging national security systems. This issue also threatens common international security. Migrant smuggling toward European countries is mainly organized through maritime routes. Therefore, to treat this issue in a more focused way, the purpose of this paper is to address the issue of migrant smuggling ...
Bytyqi, Vilard   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Two Norms Collide: EU Policy on Fragile and Conflict‐Affected Countries

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The European Union's (EU's) policy towards fragile and conflict‐affected (FCA) countries has been framed by a normative solidarity narrative that promotes and legitimises collective action. Over the past two decades, the EU's commitment to protecting the security of its citizens has increasingly become a strong, competing normative driver of ...
Julian Bergmann, Mark Furness
wiley   +1 more source

Tráfico de Pessoas para fins de exploração do trabalho na cidade de São Paulo Human trafficking for labour exploitation in the city of São Paulo

open access: yesCadernos Pagu, 2008
Este artigo busca contextualizar, em linhas gerais, o fluxo de imigrantes bolivianos para fins de trabalho nas oficinas de costura da cidade de São Paulo, demonstrando a interface dessa imigração com o tráfico de migrantes e o tráfico de pessoas.
Paulo Illes   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Smuggling of Migrants in Greece [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Criminology, 2006
The smuggling of migrants is not a new phenomenon but in recent years it has attracted increasing international attention. Within the European context, Greece represents a unique case because of its social, economic, political and geographical location.
Georgios A. Antonopoulos, John Winterdyk
openaire   +1 more source

Migrant Search and Rescue Operations in the Mediterranean by Humanitarian Organizations: Migrant Smuggling or Humanitarian Assistance?

open access: yesPaix et Sécurité Internationales, 2020
In contrast with the world's other migratory routes, the Mediterranean is the one where more migrants die or disappear in their attempt to reach Europe's coasts.
Joan David Janer Torrens
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents a scoping and conceptual literature review on environmental politics in North and East Syria/Rojava. The review aims to synthesize existing academic research in English on the interplay between armed conflict and environmental change in the region, focusing on the Kurdish‐led socio‐political model known as the Autonomous ...
Pinar Dinc   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Convergence of Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in West Africa: Migration Pressure Factors and Criminal Actors

open access: yesSocial Sciences
In West Africa, there is a very close link between the phenomenon of trafficking and migrant smuggling. This article will analyze the pressure elements and the causes that drive sub-Saharan people to migrate, placing themselves in the hands of criminal ...
Concepción Anguita-Olmedo
doaj   +1 more source

A Relational Perspective on Land in Armed Conflict: Analysing the Village Guard Mobilisation in Turkey

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

AN ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL INSTRUMENTS: UN CONVENTION AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME AND ITS PROTOCOLS AGAINST TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS AND SMUGGLING OF MIGRANTS

open access: yesPravo, 2010
Irregular migration is a movement that takes place outside the regulatory norms of the sending, transit and receiving countries. the united Nations Convention against transnational Organized Crime, along with its Protocols, considers human trafficking ...
Antonela Arhin
doaj  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy