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Roadblock Geographies: A Typology of Extraction, Circulation, and Authority in Conflict

open access: yesArea, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This article develops a typology of roadblock geographies in conflict‐affected borderlands as extractive landscapes. Drawing on transport geography, it identifies how infrastructural variation—footpaths, roads and ports—shapes who extracts rents, how and to what effect.
Peer Schouten
wiley   +1 more source

People smuggling syndicates: An oligopoly analysis in context of the Söderköping process

open access: yes
In the article, a model of oligopolistic (duopolistic) competition between two people smuggling syndicates is developed. I consider the Cournot and Stackelberg cases.
Lundgren, Ted
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The Problems of Punishing People Smuggling Perpetrators as a Transnational Organized Crime Network

open access: yesJurnal Penegakan Hukum dan Keadilan
Due to its status as the largest archipelagic nation globally, Indonesia is very susceptible to transnational organized crime, particularly offenses related to smuggling people. To address this issue, the country changed Law Number 9 of 1992 regarding immigration and enacted Law Number 6 of 2011, which makes people smuggling a criminal offense to ...
Herbin Marulak Siahaan   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean: Expanding the SlaveVoyages Database

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 24, Issue 2-3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT While the trans‐Atlantic slave trade has been thoroughly documented in a database of slaving voyages freely available to the public, few comparable resources focus on the traffic across the Indian Ocean and Asia exist. This article seeks to change that picture by discussing the preliminary findings of a research project aimed at expanding the ...
Daniel B. Domingues da Silva   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 127-141, June 2026.
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

Migrant smuggling

open access: yes
We analyze a model of the migrant smuggling market where smugglers differ in the capacity to exploit their clients' labor at the destination. We suggest that destination countries with limited resources may prefer to improve the apprehension of smugglers
Tamura, Yuji
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Socio-Economic Causes of Smuggling in Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis

open access: yes
This research aims to investigate the economic drivers of smuggling in Pakistan. For this objective, data from 300 respondents were gathered from places where smuggling occurs in Pakistan.
Hayat, Munawar, Waleed, Muhammad
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Peran Bali Process on People Smuggling, Traficking in Person and Related Transnational Crime (Bali Process) Dalam Menangani Penyelundupan Manusia Di Indonesia Pada Tahun 2008-2013 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The focus of this research is the role of Bali process in dealing with people smuggling in Indonesia. People smuggling into todays complex problems. Human smuggling is a crime that is relatively favorable for the syndicate smugglers. It is estimated that
Wardani, F. (Ferica), Rani, F. (Faisyal)
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Culture of Revenge: Analysing Blood Revenge in Pakistan's Tribal Areas

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 204-214, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Revenge is a widespread phenomenon present in every culture. It is defined as a motivated retaliation against an offense or wrongdoing perceived as harmful or a violation of moral norms. Previous psychological research views revenge as an expressive action done for personal satisfaction.
Muhammad Asif   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Reserve of Light: Photography, Ethnography, and Lucid Memory in Contemporary Chile

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article takes shape as a shared inquiry between an ethnographer and a photographer, in continuity with the photographic archive of Luis Poirot. Through sustained encounters with his images and archival practices, the text does not position itself outside the archive that motivates it, but unfolds from within it.
Cristóbal Bonelli, Luis Poirot
wiley   +1 more source

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