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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
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Crossing the Binaries of Mobility Control: Agency, Force and Freedom
Social Sciences, 2022 This article draws on qualitative data on journeys to Europe or Brazil undertaken by adults and teenagers from Sub-Saharan African countries to develop a conceptual analysis of the blurriness of the lines drawn between supposedly different types of ...
Angelo Martins +1 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the 1956 Semenyih strip–search scandal in British colonial Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, a counterinsurgency campaign shaped by Cold War politics in Southeast Asia, to explore how non‐elite Chinese women navigated surveillance, humiliation, and limited opportunities to have their grievances recognized.
Alison Fong
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
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ON THE PATH OF SMUGGLING OF MIGRANTS’ BUSINESS: MACEDONIAN CASE [PDF]
, 2015 The beginning of the Arab spring and the permanent war conflicts since December 2010 made the Republic of Macedonia one of the mostly “visited” countries by illegal migrants.
Stanojoska, Angelina +2 more
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Paix et Sécurité Internationales, 2020 In contrast with the world's other migratory routes, the Mediterranean is the one where more migrants die or disappear in their attempt to reach Europe's coasts.
Joan David Janer Torrens
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The 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
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
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Import Smuggling in the Philippines: An Economic Analysis [PDF]
This study attempts to generate an estimate of import smuggling using Philippine data on import trade. Through the development of microeconomic model, it tries to explain the level of smuggling activity in terms of factors impinging on the trader’s ...
Alano, Bienvenido Jr. P.
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Revista Vasca de Administración Pública, 2022 40,100 irregular migrants arrived to Spain in 2021 and morethan 90% of them resorted to the services provided by migrant smugglingnetworks. This article analyzes the judicial use of the information gathered fromthe debriefed migrants who were smuggled by
DAVID FERNÁNDEZ-ROJO
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