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Migration and the crimes of People smuggling and trafficking. Technical-legal analysis

open access: yesTechnium Social Sciences Journal, 2020
In this paper, a technical and legal analysis of the crimes of people trafficking and smuggling associated with migration was made, according to the mistaken regulations in the Cuban Penal Code. For that reason theoretical and empirical methods were used.
null Laidiana Torres Rodríguez   +2 more
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State border corruption and illegal migration: A model [PDF]

open access: yes
State border corruption is still a problem for Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova. In a theoretical model, it is shown how a border guard authority should optimally allocate budgetary resources to oblasts in presence of corruption, so as to minimise the ...
Lappo, Petr, Lundgren, Ted
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Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Policy and Issues for Congress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
[Excerpt] This report focuses on international and domestic human trafficking and U.S. policy responses, with particular emphasis on the TVPA and its subsequent reauthorizations.
Siskin, Alison, Wyler, Liana Sun
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Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy. The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

A Qualitative Study of Border Marketplaces and their Impacts on Continuation of Smuggling

open access: yesجامعه شناسی کاربردی, 2013
Introduction Marketplaces and trade free zones are the objective places for economic interactions among people in a large scale. Along the organizational and non-organizational preparations, marketplace is one of pivotal contexts of achieving special ...
Omid Ghaderzadeh   +2 more
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A Win-Win Solution for Ohio's Health and Economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Highlights the projected fiscal and health effects of raising the tobacco tax to fund both the governor's economic stimulus package and Ohio's tobacco prevention program, instead of funding the stimulus package at the expense of the prevention ...

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Transit: An analysis of networked criminal groups and criminal opportunities at transit ports [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Like the path of many contraband commodities, trafficked cultural objects cross countless legal borders and intersect with the legitimate market world at a number of critical transit junctures, which supports the concept of a single “grey” market.
Casey, Ryan Nicole
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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, EarlyView.
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

The Convergence of Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in West Africa: Migration Pressure Factors and Criminal Actors

open access: yesSocial Sciences
In West Africa, there is a very close link between the phenomenon of trafficking and migrant smuggling. This article will analyze the pressure elements and the causes that drive sub-Saharan people to migrate, placing themselves in the hands of criminal ...
Concepción Anguita-Olmedo
doaj   +1 more source

Passeurs: Narratives of Border Crossing in the Western Alps [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article focuses on representations of passeurs: migrant smugglers across the French-Italian and Swiss-Italian borders. I analyze a heterogeneous corpus of novels, films, and essays published between 1990-2017 that refer to different waves of ...
Di Blasio, Federica
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