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Rebel, Traitor, Sailor, Spy: The Social Figure of the Smuggler in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain

L'Atelier du CRH
Smuggling was a common practice in eighteenth-century Britain and British governments tried to prevent it with an increasing arsenal of penal statutes. Beyond the practice of smuggling, however, it was much debated as evidence of deeper problems.
Hannes Ziegler
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A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
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Broken Borders, Broken Laws: Aligning Crime and Punishment Under Section 2L1.1(b)(7) of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines [PDF]

, 2011
Despite the intensifying militarization of the United States’ borders, roughly 4,000 undocumented immigrants attempt to cross into the U.S. each day. Increased border security has not stopped the flow; rather, it has diverted migrants’ journeys into the ...
Quinn, Genevieve
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Narco Violence in Mexico: A Spatial Analysis of Drug-Related Bloodshed [PDF]

, 2012
Latin American ...
Medel, Mónica
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Outsmarting sanctions

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
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Prevention of irregular migration and suppression of human smuggling in the Republic of Serbia [PDF]

Baština
This paper examines irregular migration and human smuggling along the Western Balkans route through Serbia, providing a criminalistic and criminal law analysis of the offenses of illegal border crossing and human smuggling under Article 350 of the ...
Marković Saša M.
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Sale of visas: a smuggler's final song? [PDF]

, 2013
Is there a way of eliminating human smuggling? We set up a model to simultaneously determine the provision of human smuggling services and the demand from would-be migrants.
Auriol, A., Mesnard, A.
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Kinship Beyond Borders: Relational Sovereignty and the Limits of Liberal Statist Secession

Constellations, EarlyView.
Elliot Goodell Ugalde
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Trading in troubled times: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Covid‐19, border closure, and the military coup on the mining and trading of Kachin amber in northern Myanmar. Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar.
Seng Lawn Dan, Alessandro Rippa
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To Deter and Deny: Australia and the Interdiction of Asylum Seekers

Refuge, 2003
The paper provides an overview of the development and implementation of Australia’s comprehensive ‘border protection’ policy, including the Pacific Solution and Operation Relex – the interdiction of asylum seekers.
Jessica Howard
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