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The El Salvador Exception in a Pacific Rim Context: Outsourced Security Governance Across the Americas and the Asia‐Pacific

Pacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the 2025 US decision to deport members of the Venezuelan‐origin gang Tren de Aragua to El Salvador under a $6 million incarceration agreement, arguing that the episode represents a critical evolution in outsourced security governance. By comparing this case with the 1980s deportation of Salvadoran gang affiliates, the paper
Taeheok Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Why Migrant Smuggling Pays [PDF]

International 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.
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The Potential for Tax Reforms in Post‐War Ukraine

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the major challenges for the Ukrainian tax system for the post‐war recovery of Ukraine. We identify the main areas of concern related to low compliance and high tax evasion and avoidance. Drawing on the recent economic literature and other countries' experiences, we propose realistic reforms to increase tax compliance and support ...
Anna Abate Bessomo, Arjen Siegmann, Oksana Volkova   +2 more
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Returned but Not Restored: Experiences of Health and Access to Care Among Return Migrants in Sub‐Saharan Africa—A Scoping Review

Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Return migrants form a diverse group, ranging from highly skilled to low‐skilled workers, who travel by regular or irregular migration routes and experience differing levels of physical and mental harm during transit and at destination.
Sif Sofie Vange, Gershim Asiki, Ama de‐Graft Aikins, Charles Agyemang, Eshetu Girma, Ernestina Korleki Dankyi, Marie Norredam   +6 more
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Combating Migrant Smuggling by Sea: Analysis of EU Action Plan Against Migrant Smuggling and Standards of Migrant Smuggling Protocol

Transactions on Maritime Science
Migrant smuggling is one of the main issues challenging national security systems. This issue also threatens common international security. Migrant smuggling toward European countries is mainly organized through maritime routes. Therefore, to treat this issue in a more focused way, the purpose of this paper is to address the issue of migrant smuggling ...
Bytyqi, Vilard, Zogaj, Albert, Veliqi, Xhemajl   +2 more
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Prevalence of Unrecorded Alcohol Consumption and Associated Factors: Findings From a Nationally Representative Survey in Thailand in 2022

Drug and Alcohol Review, Volume 45, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Evidence from the World Health Organization shows that measures exist to regulate both recorded and unrecorded alcohol. In Thailand, comprehensive evidence on the amount of unrecorded alcohol consumed is lacking. This study aims to quantify the prevalence of unrecorded alcohol consumption and determine associated factors.
Sukhontha Siri, Nanapas Bhagaman, Sawitri Assanangkornchai, Jiraluck Nontarak   +3 more
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Who Is Smuggler? Contradictory Positions and Unsettled Roles in Smuggling Assemblage on the Balkan Route

Global Networks, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reconceptualizes migrant smuggling along the Balkan Route through the lens of the smuggling assemblage, which captures the fluid, relational and context‐dependent nature of clandestine mobility. Based on multi‐sited ethnographic fieldwork between 2020 and 2023 across six countries, including 85 semi‐structured interviews and ...
Muhammed Yasir Bodur, Mustafa Ammar Kılıç   +1 more
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The Convergence of Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in West Africa: Migration Pressure Factors and Criminal Actors

Social 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

Governing Migration Through Development: The Role of NGOs in EU Border Externalisation in Libya

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1536-1552, July 2026.
Abstract This article explores the role of NGOs in the EU's external migration management, focusing on a major EU‐funded development project in Libya under the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa. Whilst much scholarship has explored EU‐level strategies and partnerships with international organisations, this article centres on the ...
Agnese Pacciardi
wiley   +1 more source

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

Political 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
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