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Rural Capitalists and Development in Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the emergence and role of rural capitalists in colonial Sub‐Saharan Africa by comparing three peasant‐based economies: Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. Using social tables, we estimate the population and income shares of better earning agricultural producers and assess their impact on rural inequality and ...
Prince Young Aboagye, Ellen Hillbom, Sascha Klocke   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post‐Humanitarian Militarism and the End of Development: Global Inequality, Security, and the Ethics of Post‐Imperial Solidarity

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment.
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

Tactics of detection and documentation of operating subsits of illegal migration as one of the organized crime activities

Проблеми Законності, 2019
In accordance with the purpose of the research, the article formulates recommendations for improving the tactics of detecting and documenting operational units of illegal migration related to organized (transnational) crime.
Сергій Олексійович Павленко
doaj   +1 more source

The ANT‐Mobilities Framework: Transectionality and a Post‐Materialist Historical Sociology

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ANT‐Mobilities framework synthesizes Actor‐Network Theory, the mobilities paradigm, and historical sociology to analyze complex social transformations. This paper develops the framework through empirical engagement with post‐disaster rehabilitation networks following the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, demonstrating how crisis contexts generate ...
Farrukh A. Chishtie
wiley   +1 more source

The International Law of Migrant Smuggling

Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, 2014
Whether forced into relocation by fear of persecution, civil war, or humanitarian crisis, or pulled toward the prospect of better economic opportunities, more people are on the move than ever before. Opportunities for lawful entry into preferred destinations are decreasing rapidly, creating demand that is increasingly being met by migrant smugglers ...
Anne T. Gallagher, Fiona David
openaire   +4 more sources

The Shadow Presence of U.S. Models of Parental Involvement in Postcolonial Multilingual Language and Literacy Reforms in Western Highland Mayan Rural School Districts in Guatemala

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
wiley   +1 more source

A prevention approach to undocumented forms of migration across the Mediterranean Sea: a critical assessment from Italy [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

Open Research Europe
This article is aimed at providing a solid empirical basis which can inspire the development of more informed strategies in the field of prevention of undocumented forms of migration across the Mediterranean.
Ombretta Ingrascì, Monica Massari, Simona Miceli   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gaining and Gauging Trust Through Small Stories in the Interaction Between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the lead‐up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their guardians. Instead, they may resort to “thin stories”: generic, rehearsed stories of suffering, which risk being qualified by the authorities as “inauthentic” or even ...
Lotte Remue
wiley   +1 more source

DIGITAL CRIMINALISATION AND MIGRANT SMUGGLING

International Journal of Legal and Social Order, 2022
The present article focuses on deep diving into the following four main aspects:1.Crime forms evolution versus societal developments; 2. Distinctions between cybercriminals and criminals and associations related to digitalisation of crime;3. Software applications and tools enabling or; ganized crime group members to commit various crimes, including ...
openaire   +1 more source

Weaponizing Kinship: A Demographic Analysis of Bereavement in the Colombian Conflict

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The ongoing Colombian armed conflict has produced widespread homicides and enforced disappearances, as armed actors used violence to terrorize communities and consolidate power. Family bereavement—one of the most pervasive and enduring consequences of this violence—remains critically understudied from a quantitative perspective.
Enrique Acosta, Diego Alburez‐Gutierrez, Maria Gargiulo, Catalina Torres   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source