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MIGRANT SMUGGLING IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE REFUGEE CRISIS

open access: yesBezbednosni Dijalozi, 2023
The smuggling of migrants is not a new phenomenon but in recent years it has attracted increasing international attention. In the last few years, migrant smuggling has become one of the most lucrative types of organized crime in the Balkans.
Jasmin Ahić, Nerma Halilović-Kibrić
doaj   +1 more source

Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
wiley   +1 more source

Using Modern Technologies to Facilitate International Trade, Prevent Smuggling, and Detect Smuggling at the Same Time: a Comparative Analysis of China [PDF]

open access: yesحقوق فناوریهای نوین
In every system, many organs and institutions are involved in the process of reaching an economic commercial utopia. This process can be described as a chain whichconsists of many loops that are mutual prerequisites, e.g., customs administrations ...
Mohsen Sadeghi, Zahra Karimifard
doaj   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

The state of scientific research on the use of specialist knowledge in smuggling investigations

open access: yesBulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs
The article substantiates that smuggling as a socially dangerous phenomenon has existed since the inception of the first state formations. Its emergence was facilitated by the desire to avoid paying customs duties and moving goods beyond the control of ...
Yu. Yu. Kovalov
doaj   +1 more source

The Legal Impact of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Efforts To Manage People Smuggling As A Transnational Crime In Indonesia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Business, Economics, and Social Development, 2023
The rapid development of information and transportation technology in the era of globalization has facilitated human mobility to carry out activities and lives. Human mobility can occur between countries, thus creating human migration.
Joseph Maximillian Eduard Pauner   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comment by Andrew Shryock

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract Comment on ‘On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention’ by Paolo Heywood and Thomas ...
Andrew Shryock
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Decision Evolution and Governance Optimization in Duty-Free Quota Abuse Smuggling: A Multi-Agent Risk Avoidance Perspective

open access: yesMathematics
The pervasive misuse of Duty-Free Quota Abuse Smuggling has seriously undermined fiscal and market order. This study breaks through the traditional model’s assumption of complete rationality and establishes a Multi-Phase Dynamic Decision-Making Model for
Yuqing Guo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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