Optimal Interdiction of Illegal Network Flow by Guo, Qingyu, Zick, Yair, Miao, Chunyan, An, Bo

“…Security resources are insufficient to man all stations at all times; furthermore, smugglers regularly conduct surveillance activities. …”
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Secure Automatic Identification System (SecAIS): Proof-of-Concept Implementation by Athanasios Goudosis, Sokratis Katsikas

“…The automatic identification system (AIS), despite its importance in worldwide navigation at sea, does not provide any defence mechanisms against deliberate misuse, e.g., by sea pirates, terrorists, business adversaries, or smugglers. Previous work has proposed an international maritime identity-based cryptographic infrastructure (mIBC) as the foundation upon which the offer of advanced security capabilities for the conventional AIS can be built. …”
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TERRORISM FUNDING AND ANCIENT ARTIFACTS, PARTNERSHIP FOR PROFIT by Tiberiu - MOLDOVAN

“…Experts in Security Studies, Political Science, History, Archaeology, naming just a few, need to cooperate, to corroborate and to collaborate in order to preserve, defend and recover, ancient artifacts and cultural heritage, from the sticky hands of artifacts smugglers and terrorist funders. Who thought about the fact that a bomb that kills people in various parts of the world, was funded by illicit art and artifact smuggling? …”
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Protecting Women from Sexual and Gender-based Violence in European Refugee Crisis Focusing on UNHCR Approach by Mehryar Dashab, Saeede Mokhtarzade

“…The lack of adequate accommodation or reception facilities in European countries and taking irregular migration paths with smugglers, have amplified the vulnerability of refugee women. …”
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Irregular migration from Eritrea and role of human smuggling by Whittle Joseph, Antonopoulos Georgios A.

“…In doing so, it attempts to show what drives the high volume of people migrating and that the link between smugglers and criminality is not as western perceptions and paradigms would indicate.…”
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Combatting the Trafficking of Vietnamese Nationals to Britain: Cooperative Challenges for Vietnam and the UK by Chung Pham

“…However, this did not gather nationwide attention until the Essex tragedy of October 2019 which saw 39 Vietnamese nationals found lifeless in a lorry after they were brought into the country by a criminal network of human traffickers and smugglers. This paper seeks to understand the circumstances of these Vietnamese victims of human trafficking to the Britain by reviewing the situation in both countries—Vietnam and the UK. …”
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Contrabandistas de migrantes a pequeña escala de Tamaulipas, México by Simón Pedro Izcara Palacios

“…Abstract Small-scale part-time smugglers are embedded in the migrant community itself. …”
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The meaning of welcome. Positive migration discourse by Douglas Mark Ponton

“…At the mercy of people smugglers, migrants who succeed in crossing the seas face uncertain futures in Europe. …”
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PASSAGER by Arjang Omrani, Asef Rezaei

“…While showing his surroundings, Asef gives insightful portraits of Eleniko refugee camp, Victoria Park in Athens, where he goes to contact the smugglers. Also his experiences in Patra, in the abandoned wood factory where he was sheltering, and the port where he tries to hide under the trucks that are waiting to embark on ferries to go to Italy. …”
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Effectiveness Of Joint Patrol For National Marine Security And Safety To Minimize Illegal Goods Activities In Batam City by Siti Sarah, Surya Wiranto, Herlina Juni Risma Saragih, Pujo Widodo, Panji Suwarno

“…This may be influenced by the behavior of the people living in the area around the port, not only as smugglers but also as users and consumers so the demand for illegal goods continues to increase. …”
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The rediscovery and reception of Gandhāran art: proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop of the Gandhāra Connections Project, University of Oxford, 24th-26th March, 2021

“…</p> <p>From the archaeologists and smugglers of the Raj to the museums of post-partition Pakistan and India, from coin-forgers and contraband to modern Buddhism and contemporary art, this fourth volume of the Classical Art Research Centre’s Gandhāra Connections project presents the most recent research on the factors that mediate our encounter with Gandhāran art.…”

High-Value Natural Resources-Smuggling-National Security Nexus: The Case of Zimbabwe in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Beyond by Chibvuma, Joshua

“…Smuggling of high-value natural resources is a high risk of Zimbabwean national security. Smugglers are devising complex and sophisticated means to evade official scrutiny in their smuggling activities. …”
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“What are you doing here?”: Narratives of border crossings among diverse Afghans going to the UK at different times by María López, Louise Ryan

“…As well as those evacuated from Kabul airport in 2021, we also interviewed participants who traveled via insecure routes over land and sea often taking months, or even years, and involving expensive people smugglers. While the evacuation from Kabul was a very public and highly reported event, often with celebratory tones in the international media as Western governments sought to “rescue” Afghan allies, those Afghans who travel to the UK via illegal routes are often stigmatized; demonized in press and political discourses. …”
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Mobility, space and power in the making of Burma's borders, c.1881-1960 by O'Morchoe, FE

“…The second claim is that the transnational mobility of people and things was central to border-making in the region. Smugglers who traded opium across borders in order to benefit from differences in colonial tax regimes paradoxically made international boundaries more rather than less relevant. …”

Hide‐and‐sniff: can anti‐trafficking dogs detect obfuscated wildlife parts? by Sai Sanggkeeth Narayanasamy, Erin Chong, Sheema Abdul Aziz, Wesley Visscher, Syed Zafarullah Abdul Jaafar, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements

“…We employed a smell test using the two most smuggled wildlife parts worldwide: elephant ivory and pangolin scales, in combination with two obfuscation items of plant and animal origin commonly employed by smugglers. We then established the sensitivity of the dogs to the target substances. …”
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Cross-Amplification in Strigiformes: A New STR Panel for Forensic Purposes by Patrizia Giangregorio, Lorenzo Naldi, Chiara Mengoni, Claudia Greco, Anna Padula, Marco Zaccaroni, Renato Fani, Giovanni Argenti, Nadia Mucci

“…This STR panel might support the authorities in the forensic investigation for suspected smugglers and false parental claims; moreover, it can be useful to evaluate relatedness among individuals in captive-bred populations and to implement research projects finalized to the description of the genetic variability in wild populations.…”
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PREVENTING AND COMBATING ARTEFACTS’ TRAFFICKING. DOCUMENTING SOURCE OF PROVENANCE – A CASE STUDY by Loredana FLOREA

“…The robbers, thieves and smugglers of artifacts are connected to the antiquities market through intermediaries, which creates the appearance of legality in order to facilitate the illegal export by producing fake documents, attesting the provenance and allowing the sale / purchase on the antiques market at high prices. …”
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Tobacco industry response to tobacco tax hikes: The case of Montenegro by Konstantin Krasovsky

“…Since September 2018, when the excise rate was decreased, most of the assumed ‘smugglers’ apparently stopped their activities, as legal sales sharply increased. …”
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Understanding Social Media Dependency, and Uses and Gratifications as a Communication System in the Migration Era: Syrian Refugees in Host Countries as a Case Study by Yasmin Aldamen

“…Furthermore, the study found that the Syrian refugees depended on social media for various gratifications, such as educational, work, and business; information access; cultural and social aspects; connecting with networks and families; establishing friendships; learning new skills; self-expression; making business; and finding work, in addition to reaching routes and contacting smugglers to help them leave the country.…”
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Characterization of cigarrete smuggling distribution in Colombia by Blanca Llorente, Diana Díaz, Luis Fernando de Angulo, Roberto Iglesias, Maria Clara Ávila

“…Selected actors include authorities, smugglers, travelers in border areas, street vendors and owners of small businesses. …”
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