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Matryoshka journeys: im/mobility during migration [PDF]
, 2016 Acts of mobility require corresponding acts of immobility (or suspended mobility). Migrant journeys are not only about movement. Indeed, in the present policy context, this is ever more true.
Brigden, Noelle, Mainwaring, Ċetta
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Conservation Biology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Wildlife trafficking poses a critical threat to global biodiversity, contributes to organized crime, and has disproportionate impacts on underserved and Indigenous communities. Although international legal instruments, such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, and institutional collaborations,
Chad Patrick Osorio
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Migration and the crimes of People smuggling and trafficking. Technical-legal analysis
Technium 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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Cold‐blooded commerce: Characterizing and predicting trade in Australian squamates
Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.Despite a national ban on native wildlife exports, Australian reptile species continue to appear in international trade. Using boosted regression trees, we found that large body sizes and taxonomic family, rather than color or patterning, best predicted trade presence. We identified 59 species likely to be targeted in the future, providing key insights
Sebastian Chekunov +5 more
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A Qualitative Study of Border Marketplaces and their Impacts on Continuation of Smuggling
جامعه 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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Social SciencesIn 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
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Migration and Madrasahs: stemming people-smuggling in Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2015 The escalating issue of boat migration in southeast Asia has been in the headlines recently following a Thai crackdown on human trafficking. Here, Mubashar Hasan argues religious schools in Bangladesh’s crime coast should be incorporated into the fight ...
Hasan, Mubashar
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The 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
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Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2018 Pursuant to the so-called American travel ban, nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen were denied access to US territory. Consequently airline companies are performing additional checks at the check-in in order to avoid allowing passengers ...
Wendy De Bondt, Nele Audenaert
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State border corruption and illegal migration: A model [PDF]
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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