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Migrant smuggling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
We analyze the migrant smuggling market where smugglers differ in their capacities to exploit their clients' labor in the destination. We show that when exploitation capacities are private information, the equilibrium may be characterized by adverse selection.
openaire  

Deterrence, Development, and Denial: Securitising Climate‐Induced Mobility in the European Union

open access: yesContemporary European Politics, Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Climate‐induced mobility poses a mounting governance challenge for the European Union (EU), where climate action, migration control, and security policy intersect in uneven and contested ways. While EU discourse frequently frames climate change as a “threat multiplier,” migration governance remains anchored in deterrence logics, producing a ...
Manasa Bollempalli
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating Price Elasticities When there is Smuggling: The Sensitivity of Smoking to Price in Canada [PDF]

open access: yes
A central parameter for evaluating tax policies is the price elasticity of demand for cigarettes. But in many countries this parameter is difficult to estimate reliably due to widespread smuggling, which significantly biases estimates using legal sales ...
Anindya Sen   +2 more
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Review on Major Challenges of Veterinary Service Delivery in Ethiopia

open access: yesVeterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 12, Issue 5, September 2026.
Ethiopian veterinary services face systemic barriers, including inadequate infrastructure, a severe shortage of qualified veterinarians, and underfunded diagnostic facilities, particularly in rural and pastoralist areas. These challenges, compounded by limited access to molecular diagnostic tools, poor data sharing, and low public awareness, result in ...
Abdu Muhammed, Mitiku Wamile
wiley   +1 more source

The Convergence of Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in West Africa: Migration Pressure Factors and Criminal Actors

open access: yesSocial Sciences
In West Africa, there is a very close link between the phenomenon of trafficking and migrant smuggling. This article will analyze the pressure elements and the causes that drive sub-Saharan people to migrate, placing themselves in the hands of criminal ...
Concepción Anguita-Olmedo
doaj   +1 more source

River Sand and Gravel Mining: Global Drivers, Impacts, and Pathways for Sustainable Management

open access: yesReviews of Geophysics, Volume 64, Issue 3, September 2026.
Abstract River sand and gravel are mined worldwide at volumes that now rival their natural replenishment, yet quantitative knowledge of this mining activity and its consequences lags far behind many other global environmental pressures. We synthesize 411 peer‐reviewed studies published since 1974 within a new Driver‐to‐Management Pathway for ...
Edward Park   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

Non-criminalization of smuggled migrants: rights, obligations, and Australian practice under article 5 of the protocol against the smuggling of migrants By land, sea, and air

open access: yes, 2013
Article 5 of the United Nations Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea, and Air, to which Australia is a state party, requires states not to criminalize migrants for being the object of migrant smuggling.
Hickson, Hadley, Schloenhardt, Andreas
core   +1 more source

Permissible People Smuggling and the Duty of Rescue: Insights from Backstreet Abortion

open access: yesPolitical Philosophy
Migrant smugglers are portrayed as pure evil, driven only by greed, as they are blamed for the death and suffering of thousands of migrants. Similarly, backstreet abortionists have been the object of universal condemnation. Yet they are the only hope and
Gloria Zuccarelli
doaj   +2 more sources

Why Migrant Smuggling Pays [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Migration, 2008
ABSTRACTDrawing on empirical research in Afghanistan and Pakistan, this article ‘follows the money’ for 50 migrants smuggled to the UK, to cast light on the financing of smuggling. The means used to raise the money to pay smugglers ranged from drawing on savings to selling property, land and jewellery.
openaire   +1 more source

Specific Features of the Debriefing and Confrontation in Migrant Smuggling Investigations

open access: yesACROSS
The present article focuses on the specificity in conducting of debriefing and confrontation in migrant smuggling investigations, exploring this topic from the perspective of forensic science.
Gina Aurora NECULA
doaj   +2 more sources

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