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Trafficking in Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]
, 2008 [Excerpt] Trafficking in persons (TIP) for the purpose of exploitation is a lucrative criminal activity that is of major concern to the United States and the international community. According to the most recent U.S.
Ribando Seelke, Clare
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.Abstract This paper frames migrant makeshift camps as mobility infrastructures, bridging scholarship on informal dwellings and migration infrastructures with the case of Bihać, a transit city on the Bosnia–Croatia border. The central idea is that grassroots makeshift camps assembled in abandoned buildings or tents play a key infrastructural role in ...
Martino Zibetti (He/Him)
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HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL INDIRECT TAX COMPETITION : THEORY AND SOME EVIDENCE FROM THE USA [PDF]
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 +2 more
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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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Covert Borderwork: Managing Borders and Migration through Secrecy
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.Abstract In this article, we analyse secretive practices of border and migration management we term covert borderwork. Covert borderwork comprises techniques of border and migration management which adopt varying forms and temporalities of secrecy in their design, implementation, and/or performance.
Josh Watkins, Julia Van Dessel
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Journal of Danubian Studies and Research, 2020 The object of the topic is represented by the analysis of criminogenic factors that generate and facilitate smuggling in the Eastern part of the European Union, a phenomenon in which a main place is occupied by counterfeit products.
Radu Ștefănuț
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.Abstract The paper examines the existing relationships between universities and Frontex, investigating and problematising the intersection between the higher education sector and the violence of the European border regime. We introduce the concept of positivist dissonance to conceptualise these relationships within the wider “industrial‐military ...
Giulia Corgnier +3 more
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Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 7, 3 February 2026.Molecularly imprinted polymeric nanocarriers (nanoMIPs) offer robust, antibody‐mimetic platforms to overcome the blood‐brain barrier. The article surveys nanoMIP design and ligand‐directed surface engineering that harness receptor‐mediated transcytosis, and highlights therapeutic and diagnostic applications in neurodegeneration, brain tumors and ...
Ranjit De, Shuliang Shi, Kyong‐Tai Kim
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A Formal Separation Between Strategic and Nonstrategic Behavior
, 2020 It is common in multiagent systems to make a distinction between "strategic" behavior and other forms of intentional but "nonstrategic" behavior: typically, that strategic agents model other agents while nonstrategic agents do not.
Leyton-Brown, Kevin, Wright, James R.
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Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 111th Congress [PDF]
, 2009 [Excerpt] The Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader have pledged to take up comprehensive immigration reform legislation at some point in the 111th Congress.
Bruno, Andorra +6 more
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