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Exploring the ‘Blurred Boundary’: Human Smuggling and Trafficking on the Central Mediterranean Route to Europe

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development
Objectives: This study examines the convergence of smuggling and trafficking in persons along the Central Mediterranean Route (CMR) to Europe. We explore where and how these phenomena blur, impacting states’ obligations and policy decisions.
Alexandre Bish, Ella Cockbain, Peter William Walsh, Hervé Borrion   +3 more
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
wiley   +1 more source

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.
doaj   +1 more source

Optimization of Strategic Policy for the Prevention and Law Enforcement of the Crime of People Smuggling

Journal of Law and Border Protection, 2021
People smuggling as one of the transnational crimes that threatens Indonesia is still a global problem that is still difficult to find a way out. In addressing this issue, Indonesia must adhere to the precautionary principle but still prioritize state security.
Adhitya Antomarta, Wilda Ramadhani Mansur   +1 more
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PLACE‐FRAMING URBANITY: The Case of Kalasatama, Helsinki

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Narratives, visuality and symbolic representations are increasingly important in contemporary urban planning and development. This article seeks to understand how urbanity, one of the key goals of Helsinki's recent planning, has been constructed in the Kalasatama regeneration area. The construction of urban image and identity is viewed as soft
Tuomas Ilmavirta
wiley   +1 more source

Human Smuggling and Human Trafficking

, 2022
Human smuggling and human trafficking are part of mixed migration flows, which are defined as complex population movements concerning both regular (i.e. documented) and irregular (i.e. undocumented) migrants.
Szablewska, Natalia, Natalia Szablewska
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

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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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
wiley   +1 more source

Queen Anne's Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics, and the Representational Strategies of the Last Stuart Queen

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
wiley   +1 more source