Margins of the market Mathew, Johan
2016., 20160510, 2016, 2016-06-17, Letnik:
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What is the relationship between trafficking and free trade? Is trafficking the perfection or the perversion of free trade? Trafficking occurs thousands of times each day at borders throughout the ...world, yet we have come to perceive it as something quite extraordinary. How did this happen, and what role does trafficking play in capitalism? To answer these questions, Johan Mathew traces the hidden networks that operated across the Arabian Sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following the entangled history of trafficking and capitalism, he explores how the Arabian Sea reveals the gaps that haunt political borders and undermine economic models. Ultimately, he shows how capitalism was forged at the margins of the free market, where governments intervened, and traffickers turned a profit.
This book examines the smuggling of migrants and trafficking in human beings in the EU with a comparative analysis of how British and Italian law has approached the issues. The work also analyzes the ...role of cooperation between the police and judiciary in combating criminal organizations involved in these crimes. The author draws on evidence from the Italian cities of Rimini and Siracusa and from the Italian transit island of Lampedusa to show how an innovative approach can help provide solutions to the problems arising from this sort of criminal activity. The result is a valuable resource for academics and students working in the areas of migration, refugee, criminal justice and EU law. Policy-makers and practitioners working with refugee and immigration issues will also find much of interest in this book.
Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers ...in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency runners, and human traffickers who pierced such newly drawn borders with growing success.The book presents a history of the evolution of this 3000-km frontier, and then inquires into the smuggling of contraband: who smuggled and why, what routes were favored, and how effectively the British and Dutch were able to enforce their economic, moral, and political will. Examining the history of states and smugglers playing off one another within a hidden but powerful economy of forbidden cargoes, the book also offers new insights into the modern political economies of Southeast Asia.
The literature on smuggling is progressing steadily as the topic has received increasing attention in recent years. However, research has developed across several fields and in a disjointed fashion. ...This book review reflects upon a recent publication, which attempts to consolidate smuggling research: The Routledge Handbook on Smuggling (Gallien and Weigand, 2021). The book helps lay the foundations for the conceptualisation of smuggling and provides clear guidance for its study, establishing it as a key reference tool for both neophyte and veteran researchers alike.
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia,
could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico,
Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and
the ...incredible challenges she faced advocating for her daughter's
health in the United States. When she arrived in Texas, Claudia
discovered that being undocumented would mean more than just an
immigration status-it would be a way of living, of mothering, and
of being discarded by even those institutions we count on to
care.
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos spent five years with Claudia. As she
listened to Claudia's experiences, she recalled her own mother's
story, another life molded by migration, the US-Mexico border, and
the quest for a healthy future on either side. Witnessing Claudia's
struggles with doctors and teachers, we see how the education and
medical systems enforce undocumented status and perpetuate
disability. At one point, in the midst of advocating for her
daughter, Claudia suddenly finds herself struck by debilitating
pain. Claudia is lifted up by her comadres, sent to the doctor, and
reminded why she must care for herself.
A braided narrative that speaks to the power of stories for
creating connection, this book reveals what remains undocumented in
the motherhood of Mexican women who find themselves making
impossible decisions and multiple sacrifices as they build a future
for their families.
Este ensayo tiene como objetivo describir las experiencias de tsotsiles de Chamula, Chiapas, una vez retornaron a sus comunidades después de complicadas experiencias como migrantes indocumentados en ...Estados Unidos. Se narran los peligros que afrontaron para conseguir empleo en el contexto de la crisis económica a partir del verano de 2006, y el reto que tuvieron que enfrentar con los prestamistas para financiar su viaje, además de sus experiencias con la red de contrabandistas de migrantes establecidos desde sus comunidades hasta el país del norte. Posteriormente se describen las dificultades que tuvieron para restablecerse y emplearse en sus comunidades una vez retornaron. La metodología de investigación consistió en la realización de entrevistas a profundidad con preguntas semiestructuradas y observación participante. Palabras clave: migración internacional, migración indocumentada, migración de retorno, reinserción sociolaboral. This essay explores the experiences of Tsotsil-speaking migrants from Chamula, Chiapas, who returned to their communities following the complicated hardships they experienced as undocumented migrants in the United States. It recounts the daring acts they had to undertake to find work during an economic crisis that began in the summer of 2006, the challenges they had to face, first with money-lenders who financed their trips, and their experiences with a network of migrant smugglers that extends from their home communities to their destination in the U.S. Migrants described the difficulties they encountered trying to reestablish and find work in their home communities. The research methodology consisted of in-depth interviews based on a semi-structured questionnaire as well as participant observation. Keywords: international migration, undocumented migration, return migration, socio-occupational reintegration
This project explores the political economy of informal and illegal cross-border trade in North Africa, focusing in particular on Tunisia’s border with Libya, and Morocco’s North-East bordering ...Algeria and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Based on extensive fieldwork, the project traces the informal institutions that regulate smuggling across the region, examines the resulting rent streams, and analyses their relationship to the region’s states through a political settlement framework. Following shifts in the domestic politics of Tunisia and Morocco as well as the regional border infrastructure, the project also traces the recent re-negotiation of the role of smuggling in the region. It argues that contrary to common assumptions, smuggling rarely occurs 'under the radar' of the state, but is instead embedded in a tight network of institutional regulation in which the regions' states play a key role. Furthermore, rather than subverting states, smuggling activities are a central feature of the region’s political settlements. The project highlights that the ability of different groups to navigate and negotiate the terms of their inclusion into these settlements is highly uneven, posing serious challenges for borderland populations.
This thesis studies the impact of contraband on the Spanish Empire at the strategic level where it impacted national policy, as well as its impact at the law enforcement and administrative levels. It ...includes necessarily applicable definitions of concepts such as smuggling, contraband and grand strategy, the difference between tactics, strategy and grand strategy and their applications within Spanish governmental institutions and private organizations. The thesis proposes that the Spanish government's preoccupation with its grand strategy of becoming the primary political and religious hegemonic power in Europe hindered the development of adequate policies designed to support it. Thus, Spanish monarchs invested more time in seeking to conquer Europe than in developing a feasible economic policy capable of finance that project of conquest. This concern reduced Spain's ability to advance its primary objectives. Spanish monarchs developed a grand strategy based on several major elements: monarchia universalis, religion, diplomacy, international law, military, naval and maritime policy. The efforts to achieve these objectives were habitually blended into policies designed to achieve a monopoly over the use of national power, both domestically and abroad. The study concludes that illicit economic activity was carried out to such an extent that it detached enough from the Crown's overall income to significantly hinder Spain's ability to implement its grand strategy. The importance of the study is that it demonstrates, in the context of the XVI and XVII centuries, what the level of contraband implied to the Spanish rule of law. The high level of fraude robbed the Spanish Crown of more than half of its potential tax income from the Indies, thus interfering with its grand strategy in Europe.
There is a lack of empirical interview data on escapees from North Korea and the aim of this thesis is to address this omission. At a theoretical level, this thesis is concerned with North Korean ...escapees' cross-border mobility to South Korea through a third country. It explores how North Koreans' migration, often popularly described as the `Underground Railroad', is undertaken through smuggling networks, documenting both the process of smuggling and the structure of its networks.
