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Irregular Migration, Trafficking and Smuggling of Human Beings: Policy Dilemmas in the EU. CEPS Paperback, 22 February 2016 [PDF]
, 2016 The expert contributors to this edited volume, representing a multidisciplinary selection of academics, examine the treatment of irregular migration, human trafficking and smuggling in EU law and policy.
Jokinen, Anniina +12 more
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An Optimal Control of Smuggling [PDF]
, 2022 Existing literature does not capture efficiency losses on the dynamic adjustment path of smuggling control market from initial to final equilibrium after a shock in order to formulate an optimal smuggling control policy.
Nawaz, Nasreen
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Child &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
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Illegal Immigration, Human Trafficking, and Organized Crime [PDF]
illegal migration, human smuggling, human trafficking, organized crime, states ...
Vayrynen, Raimo
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Horizontal and vertical indirect tax competition: theory and some evidence from the USA [PDF]
, 2004 This paper provides a simple theoretical framework for analyzing simultaneous vertical and horizontal competition in excise taxes, and estimates equations informed by the theory on a panel of US state and federal excise taxes on cigarettes and gasoline ...
Devereux, Michael P. +3 more
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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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Behavioral interventions to reduce demand for threatened freshwater turtles as pets
Conservation 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
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Interstate Cigarette Bootlegging: Extent, Revenue Losses, and Effects of Government Intervention [PDF]
In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of commercial smuggling in which some, but not all, firms smuggle a portion of the cigarettes they sell. The model is used to examine the effects on interstate cigarette smuggling of the Contraband Cigarette
Jerry G. Thursby, Marie C. Thursby
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Smuggling and import duties in Myanmar [PDF]
This paper examines the effects of import duties on smuggling in Myanmar. Following Fisman and Wei (2004), the reporting discrepancies between Myanmar’s imports records and corresponding exports recorded by trading partners are regarded as indicative ...
Nu Nu Lwin, Kubo, Koji
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Rebel, Traitor, Sailor, Spy: The Social Figure of the Smuggler in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain
L'Atelier du CRHSmuggling was a common practice in eighteenth-century Britain and British governments tried to prevent it with an increasing arsenal of penal statutes. Beyond the practice of smuggling, however, it was much debated as evidence of deeper problems.
Hannes Ziegler
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