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Combating Smuggling in Persons: A Malaysia Experience

SHS Web of Conferences, 2015
Malaysia continues to face various challenges derived from the widespread of international migratory movement because of various economic reasons. Malaysia strategic geographical location, in the center of the South East Asian region made the country an ...
Rahim Rohani Abdul, Ahmad Tajuddin Muhammad Afiq bin, Abu Bakar Kamaruddin bin Hj., Abdul Rahim Mohammad Nizamuddin Bin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Has Australia lost control of its tobacco and nicotine markets?

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Australia has adopted two policies that the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends as best practice for tobacco control: it has steeply increased tobacco taxes since 2010 and only allowed access to nicotine vapes for medical use.
Ron Borland, James Martin, Edward Jegasothy, Ben Youdan, Wayne Hall   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Context, mechanisms and outcomes of a social enterprise model of residential rehabilitation for problem substance use: A realist‐informed process evaluation

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims This study evaluated a three‐year residential rehabilitation programme, which aimed to support recovery from problem substance use via peer support and social enterprise activities. The aims were to clarify programme mechanisms and identify contextual factors associated with variation in outcomes.
Martin Anderson, Lucy Pickering, Mark McCann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

LEGAL CONSIDERATION OF LEGAL CONVERSION IN DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE IN INDONESIA

Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2020
This article discusses the legal certainty of legal smuggling in interfaith marriages in Indonesia. Not a few who carry out interfaith marriages in Indonesia go abroad, even though this can be categorized as a form of legal smuggling due to avoiding the ...
Romli M., Luth T., Sulistyarini R., Hamidah S.   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio, Ariel Lopez, Birgit Tremml‐Werner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
wiley   +1 more source

Rebuilding trust in national police: The case of the UN mission in Mali

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract International interventions often aim to reinforce both capacity as well as perceived legitimacy of national security forces. However, how peacekeeping operations manage to improve trust in the national police has received limited attention. In this article, we evaluate whether and how UN missions can (re‐)build trust in the national police ...
Nadine Ansorg, Zorzeta Bakaki, Jessica Di Salvatore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE CAUSES OF HUMAN SMUGGLING(INDONESIA-MALAYSIA) AND THE POLICIES TAKEN BY THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT TO OVERCOME IT

Journal of Social Political Sciences
This research aims to analyze the causes of Human Smuggling experienced by Indonesian workers in Malaysia. The basic point of this research is the assumption that Indonesia, as a country that quantitatively contributes a very large number of labor ...
Tiara Zulyansari Liu
doaj   +1 more source

Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

Between Cryptocurrencies' Risk and Crypto Environmental Attention: The Crypto Environment Attention Index and Volatility in the Cryptocurrencies Market Nexus

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of environmental attention on cryptocurrency market volatility by introducing the Crypto Environmental Attention Index (CEAI), a new metric inspired by Wang et al. (2022) and constructed using daily web search data.
Ines Ghazouani, Zaineb Hlioui, Marwa Zouawi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source