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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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Illegal to punish or punish the illegals: Which way should Ukraine and Moldova choose? [PDF]
A government seeks to minimise the maximum expected utility of migrants and smugglers, but has to do this under constraints. It is argued that a vote maximising government should choose policies based on the relative weight of the introduced lobby ...
Lundgren, Ted
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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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Coyote crossings: the role of smugglers in illegal immigration and border enforcement [PDF]
Illegal immigration and border enforcement in the United States have increased concomitantly for over thirty years. One interpretation is that U.S. border policies have been ineffective.
Joseph H. Haslag +2 more
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Contemporary migrant crisis with the special overview of the protection of constitutional rights of the citizens of immigration countries [PDF]
BaštinaThe contemporary migrant (refugee) crisis that began in 2010 in the countries of North Africa and the Middle East is by no means accidental, but a very well-planned and executed migration of people. This plan slowly leads to the formation of a completely
Bataveljić Dragan T., Božić Vanda B.
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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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A Just and Sustainable Solution to the Boat People Predicament in Australia? [PDF]
, 2015 Since the year 2000, there have been close to two thousand deaths of asylum seekers at sea as a result of foiled attempts to travel to Australia in order to seek protection under the United Nations Convention and Protocol on the Status of Refugees.[1 ...
Donegan, Laura Rose W
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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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Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
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Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Policy and Issues for Congress [PDF]
, 2008 Trafficking in people for prostitution and forced labor is one of the most prolific areas of international criminal activity and is of significant concern to the United States and the international community. The overwhelming majority of those trafficked
Seelke, Clare Ribando, Siskin, Alison
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