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Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

"They're doing people a service" qualitative study of smoking, smuggling, and social deprivation [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 2001
To examine the behaviour and attitudes related to smoking and contraband tobacco products among smokers in two socially deprived areas.Cross sectional study with qualitative semistructured interviews, augmented by smokers' day grid.Two areas of socioeconomic deprivation in Edinburgh.50 male and 50 female smokers aged 25-40 years randomly selected from ...
Parry, Odette   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Crossing America’s Borders: Chinese Immigrants in the Southwesterns of the 1920s and 1930s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Today, when we think of the film Western, we think of a genre dominated by Anglo-American heroes conquering the various struggles and obstacles that the nineteenth-century frontier presented to settlers and gunslingers alike—from the daunting terrain and
Gates, Philippa
core   +1 more source

Challenges of Effective Wildlife Law Enforcement in Oyo and Lagos States, Nigeria 尼日利亚奥约州与拉各斯州野生动物执法有效实施所面临的挑战

open access: yesWildlife Letters, EarlyView.
Effective wildlife law enforcement is important in the drive for biodiversity conservation. This study examined the challenges of wildlife law enforcement in Oyo and Lagos States of Nigeria across four security outfits (Nigerian Police Force [NPF], Nigerian Customs Service [NCS], National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency ...
Oluwatosin Mercy Dada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analisa Kejahatan Penyelundupan Manusia Berdasarkan Smuggling of Migrants Protocol Ditinjau dari Perspektif Perlindungan Pencari Suaka: Studi Kasus Pengungsi Rohingnya

open access: yesPadjadjaran: Jurnal Ilmu Hukum, 2016
Abstrak Eksodus besar-besaran etnis muslim Rohingya keluar Myanmar kembali terjadi sebagai akibat dilakukannya pembakaran desa, eksekusi, hingga pemerkosaan oleh militer Myanmar di Rakhine. Meskipun mereka harus rela membayar mahal, cara penyelundupan
Diajeng Wulan Christianti
doaj   +1 more source

To Control Migration Flows and Defeat Human Smuggling, Sell Visas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Policymakers in most OECD countries face the challenge that they must fight people smuggling while retaining control of migration flows. Policies designed to increase border controls are not sufficient on their own; the level of enforcement that would ...
Auriol, E., Mesnard, A.
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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
Rani, F. (Faisyal), Wardani, F. (Ferica)
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Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
wiley   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
wiley   +1 more source

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