Bifurcating Relief and Legitimating Mass Incarceration: An Analysis of Obama's Clemency Initiative
Law &Policy, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT In April 2014, then‐President Barack Obama announced an initiative to grant clemency to thousands of federal prisoners serving long sentences for non‐violent crimes, targeting a reduction in racial disparities in drug‐crime sentences. Critiques of the initiative's implementation abound, but 1715 people ultimately received clemency—more than ...
Elena Amaya +3 more
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Actor-network and stakeholder analysis in preventing health goods smuggling in Iran. [PDF]
Global HealthMeymand FM, Takian A, Jaafaripooyan E.
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Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 74-89, April 2026.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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Facilitators and barriers of implementing sin-tax policies: a scoping review. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthNajafi M +6 more
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Illegal Immigration, Human Trafficking, and Organized Crime [PDF]
illegal migration, human smuggling, human trafficking, organized crime, states ...
Vayrynen, Raimo
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 194-204, April 2026.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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Analysis of Cross-Border Movement of Cattle in Yunnan Province, China: Insights Into Transboundary Animal Diseases Control. [PDF]
Transbound Emerg DisMeixia D +7 more
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Unpacking “Expat”: Identity, Status, and Mobility Among Contemporary Western Residents in Türkiye
Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2026.ABSTRACT While terms like “immigrant” and “migrant” have become commonplace in our globalized world, the term “expatriate” is used much less frequently, even though self‐described “expat” communities abound within many countries. The main difference between immigrants and expats has frequently defined simply as whether people are moving to another ...
Jared M. Wright, Selenay Kaskaya
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Sudan's Endless Exodus and the Cruel Geometry of the Refugee Loop. [PDF]
CureusShah MH, Osman LA.
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Iraqi Forced Migrants in Jordan: Conditions, Religious Networks, and the Smuggling Process [PDF]
transit, asylum, networks, Middle ...
Chatelard, Geraldine
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