Making Sense of the Relationship between Trafficking in Persons, Human Smuggling, and Organised Crime: The Case of Nigeria

2011 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Ellis ◽  
James Akpala
Keyword(s):  
Organised Crime ◽  
Human Smuggling ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Relationship

Luxury and Corruption

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tereza Østbø Kuldova
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Organised Crime ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Global Ethics ◽  
Luxury Goods ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Relationship

Luxury, luxury business, and corruption are intertwined in multiple ways. Luxury goods, art, and real estate are used to launder proceeds from corruption and organised crime; luxury goods are used as bribes; the desire for luxury motivates corruption; images of illicit luxuries are used in corruption exposés and fuel populist politics; anticorruption measures impact luxury markets. Despite this, the relationship between luxury and corruption has not been an object of systematic research. This chapter is therefore exploratory in its nature, an invitation to think luxury and corruption together, and beyond the business of luxury. It argues that much can be gained from thinking luxury and corruption together and in new and critical ways. An analysis of the logic of luxury and of luxury business is not only key to understanding the driving forces behind corruption, but it also offers a powerful entry point to making sense of moral cultures, reigning political and economic views, and the making of global ethics.

scholarly journals Grief, disorientation, and futurity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantin Mehmel
Keyword(s):  
Making Sense ◽  
Phenomenological Account ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis paper seeks to develop a phenomenological account of the disorientation of grief, specifically the relationship between disorientation and the breakdown in practical self-understanding at the heart of grief. I argue that this breakdown cannot be sufficiently understood as a breakdown of formerly shared practices and habitual patterns of navigating lived-in space that leaves the bereaved individual at a loss as to how to go on. Examining the experience of losing a loved person and a loved person-to-be, I instead propose that this breakdown should be understood primarily in relation to a distinctive kind of futurity operative in disorientation, irrespective of the extent to which there is a breakdown of formerly shared practices and habitual patterns of navigating lived-in space. Drawing on the resources afforded by Heidegger’s phenomenology, I argue that it is a core characteristic of the experience of disorientation in grief that the grieving person can no longer meaningfully press ahead into a specific futural self. This view comes with certain advantages over existing accounts of the temporality of grief for making sense of the disorientated relationship to futurity, which the appeal to Heideggerian resources makes possible.

scholarly journals The Denouncers: Populism and the Press in Venezuela

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT SAMET
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Recent Attention

AbstractDespite recent attention to the relationship between the media and populist mobilisation in Latin America, there is a misfit between the everyday practices of journalists and the theoretical tools that we have for making sense of these practices. The objective of this article is to help reorient research on populism and the press in Latin America so that it better reflects the grounded practices and autochthonous norms of the region. To that end, I turn to the case of Venezuela, and a practice that has been largely escaped attention from scholars – the use of denuncias.

scholarly journals Using Global Migration Law to Prevent Human Trafficking

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 147-152
Author(s):  
Janie A. Chuang
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Organised Crime ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Labor Trafficking ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
International Laws ◽  
Migration Law

Our understanding of human trafficking has changed significantly since 2000, when the international community adopted the first modern antitrafficking treaty—the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Trafficking Protocol). Policy attention has expanded beyond a near-exclusive focus on sex trafficking to bring long-overdue attention to nonsexual labor trafficking. That attention has helped surface how the lack of international laws and institutions pertaining to labor migration can enable—if not encourage—the exploitation of migrant workers. Many migrant workers throughout the world labor under conditions that do not qualify as trafficking yet suffer significant rights violations for which access to protection and redress is limited. Failing to attend to these “lesser” abuses creates and sustains vulnerability to trafficking.

It’s HERstory: Unhealthy Relationships in Adolescence and Subsequent Social and Emotional Development in College Women

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780122093778
Author(s):  
Kara Anne E. Rodenhizer ◽  
Katie M. Edwards ◽  
Emily E. Camp ◽  
Sharon B. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Positive Adaptation ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Cognitive Maturity ◽  
Early Relationships ◽  
The Relationship

The current study sought to expand our understanding of how early relationships characterized by intimate partner violence (IPV) influence college women’s transition into emerging adulthood. We used a longitudinal qualitative design in which women ( n = 13) with histories of IPV victimization participated in interviews twice a year beginning their first semester in college and ending in their final semester of college. Four primary themes were uncovered: making sense of the relationship, recognizing needs in the relationship, posttraumatic growth, and social cognitive maturity. The constitutive pattern across all four themes was resilience (i.e., positive adaptation during and after experiencing adversity).

Making Sense of Chinese Employees’ Suicidal Ideation: A Psychological Strain—Life Meaning Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxin Liu ◽  
Muhammad Usman ◽  
Jianwei Zhang ◽  
Habib Gul
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Suicide Ideation ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Life Meaning ◽  
Psychological Strain ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Professional Employees ◽  
Psychological Strains ◽  
The Relationship

Using the strain theory of suicide, this study examines how psychological strains influence suicide ideation via the mediating mechanism of the meaning in life. To check the hypothesized model, data were drawn from professional employees ( n=687) across six organizations of various business types to increase the variability of respondent perception and the generalizability of the study findings. The results showed significant correlations among psychological strains, meaning in life, and suicide ideation. Furthermore, this study provides evidence for the mediation effect of meaning in life in the relationship between psychological strain and suicide ideation. Implications and future directions are discussed.

From mental disorders to social suffering: Making sense of depression for critical theories

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domonkos Sik
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Suffering ◽  
General Argument ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Normative Basis ◽  
Clinical Description ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims at grounding critical theories with the help of psy discourses. Even if the relationship between the two disciplines has always been a controversial one, the article argues that therapeutic knowledge that accesses empirical forms of social suffering may offer important insights for critical theory. This general argument is demonstrated by complementing the theories of Bourdieu and Habermas with a clinical description of depression. First, the limitations of the capabilities of these influential theories in terms of how they can be used to conceptualize the variety of social suffering are introduced. Second, the psy discourses on depression are reviewed to identify and highlight latent references to the social. Third, by combining models of depressive suffering and various distortions of integration, an extended normative basis is elaborated. Instead of solely criticizing inequalities or distortions of communication, those social constellations are criticized that trap actors by producing a homogenous pattern of suffering.

Part II UN Core Conventions on Transnational Organised Crime, 8 The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons 2000

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heintze Hans-Joachim ◽  
Lülf Charlotte
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Transnational Crime ◽  
Organised Crime ◽  
International Level ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Criminal Networks ◽  
International Response ◽  
Legal Foundation ◽  
The Many ◽  
Modern Day Slavery

As ‘modern day slavery’ and one of the many forms of transnational crime, human trafficking demands an international response. The necessity of countering human trafficking comprehensively becomes apparent when looking at crimes committed, the numbers of people trafficked, and the billions criminal networks make by exploiting the vulnerable. As the pertinent legal instrument at the international level the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons can be considered the legal foundation and impetus for regional and national anti-trafficking legislation and implementing measures. This chapter analyses the UN Protocol and its regulations in detail and critically reflects on its implementation.

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