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Measurement of Import Smuggling in Pakistan [PDF]
Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, 2015 Owing to its importance at various fronts, international trade is one of the key policy concerns, especially for developing countries. However, as with all other policies, the effective formulation of trade policies requires correct information about the
Rafat MAHMOOD *, Eatzaz AHMAD **
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Passeurs: Narratives of Border Crossing in the Western Alps [PDF]
, 2019 This article focuses on representations of passeurs: migrant smugglers across the French-Italian and Swiss-Italian borders. I analyze a heterogeneous corpus of novels, films, and essays published between 1990-2017 that refer to different waves of ...
Di Blasio, Federica
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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
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Meeting the minimum standards of the Palermo Protocol: The case of South Africa [PDF]
, 2019 Magister Legum - LLMThis research is aimed at evaluating the adequacy and effectiveness of the legal framework dealing with human trafficking in South Africa.
Shepherd, Robyn
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Contrasting the conceptualisation of victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation: a case study of Brazilians in Spain and Portugal [PDF]
, 2014 Despite the significant emphasis given to the trafficking of Brazilians to the sex industry of the Iberian Peninsula, the concepts of “victim of trafficking for sexual exploitation” used in these three countries vary.
Lima De Perez, Julie
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Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review
Studies 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
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Permissible People Smuggling and the Duty of Rescue: Insights from Backstreet Abortion
Political PhilosophyMigrant smugglers are portrayed as pure evil, driven only by greed, as they are blamed for the death and suffering of thousands of migrants. Similarly, backstreet abortionists have been the object of universal condemnation. Yet they are the only hope and
Gloria Zuccarelli
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Determinants of increased real prices of livestock in Balochistan [PDF]
, 2011 The real prices of livestock in Balochistan have been increasing dramatically over the last decade and still there is no sign for them to recede. There is no study that accounts for determinants of this rise in the real prices of livestock in Balochistan.
Marri, Sohrab Khan, Zaman, Nadeem Uz
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Transit: An analysis of networked criminal groups and criminal opportunities at transit ports [PDF]
, 2017 Like the path of many contraband commodities, trafficked cultural objects cross countless legal borders and intersect with the legitimate market world at a number of critical transit junctures, which supports the concept of a single “grey” market.
Casey, Ryan Nicole
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Studies 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
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