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Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing criminals: a critical frame analysis of Canada’s policy responses to people smuggling and the erosion of refugee protection

open access: yes, 2014
This paper charts the anti-people smuggling policy changes to Canada’s immigration system and uses data since 2010 from government documents, parliamentary speeches and ministerial activity generated by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and related ...
Claire Ellis (10852305)
core   +1 more source

Control of Irregular Migration and Suppression of People Smuggling on the Western Balkan Route

open access: yesJournal of Liberty and International Affairs
The subject of this paper is irregular migration and modern models of preventing the smuggling of migrants on the part of the Western Balkan route through the Republic of Serbia.
Bojan Jankovic   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Equity considerations in the proposed wildlife protocol to the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

open access: yesConservation 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
wiley   +1 more source

Australian Asylum Seeker Policy from Three Perspectives

open access: yesRefuge
Antje Missbach. The Criminalisation of People Smuggling in Indonesia and Australia. Routledge, 2022, 224 pp. ISBN: 9781032078496 (paperback). Julia Caroline Morris. Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru. Cornell University Press, 2023, 318 pp.
Zoe Bell
doaj   +1 more source

Measurement of Import Smuggling in Pakistan [PDF]

open access: yesPakistan Journal of Applied Economics, 2015
Owing to its importance at various fronts, international trade is one of the key policy concerns, especially for developing countries. However, as with all other policies, the effective formulation of trade policies requires correct information about the
Rafat MAHMOOD *, Eatzaz AHMAD **
doaj  

The impact of taxation reduction on smoking in youth between 1990 and 1999: results from a reconstructed cohort analysis of the Canadian Community Health Surveys.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundIncreases in taxation can contribute to smoking control. In the early 1990's, tobacco smuggling rates in Canada increased dramatically. Governments responded with a substantial reduction in taxes on tobacco products.
Nicholas J Birkett
doaj   +1 more source

Situation of colbari in Jurisprudence and Criminal Law

open access: yesمطالعات تطبیقی فقه و اصول مذاهب, 2019
Border areas due to specific geographic and political location face with economic, social and cultural crisis. There areproblems in border areas like unemployment and turning to smuggling goods or Colbari as one of the livelihoods and life styles.
Afshin Abdollahi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Behavioral interventions to reduce demand for threatened freshwater turtles as pets

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Growing demand for freshwater turtles as pets has fueled illegal trade and accelerated wild population declines, underscoring the need for theory‐based demand‐reduction interventions. We conducted a three‐part randomized controlled trial with active turtle keepers (n = 1800) in China to test conservation‐ and legality‐framed messages by ...
Wuji Zheng   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hypocrisy and people smuggling

open access: yes, 2009
What should we make of legislators who equate people smuggling with human trafficking, asks Savitri Taylor PEOPLE SMUGGLING is a matter of considerable political concern to Western governments, and has received much international attention in recent ...
Savitri Taylor
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