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1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Tracking globalization
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Tracking globalization.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the making of illicitness / Itty Abraham and Willem van Schendel -- Spaces of engagement : how borderlands, illicit flows, and territorial states interlock / Willem van Schendel -- The rumor of trafficking : border controls, illegal migration, and the sovereignty of the nation-state / Diana Wong -- Talking like a state : drugs, borders, and the language of control / Paul Gootenberg -- "Here, even legislators chew them" : coca leaves and identity politics in northern Argentina / Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui -- Seeing the state like a migrant : why so many non-criminals break immigration laws / David Kyle and Christina A. Siracusa -- Criminality and the global diamond trade : a methodological case study / Ian Smillie -- Small arms, cattle raiding, and borderlands : the Ilemi triangle / Kenneth I. Simala and Maurice Amutabi. |
| Summary |
This book offers a new perspective on illegal transnational linkages, international relations, and the transnational. The contributors argue for a nuanced approach that recognizes the difference between "organized" crime and the thousands of illicit acts that take place across national borders every day. They distinguish between the illegal (prohibited by law) and the illicit (socially perceived as unacceptable), which are historically changeable and contested. Detailed case studies of arms smuggling, illegal transnational migration, the global diamond trade, borderland practices, and the t. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Transnational crime.
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Transnational crime. |
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State, The.
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State, The. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Schendel, Willem van.
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Abraham, Itty, 1960-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Illicit flows and criminal things. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005 025334669X 9780253346698 (DLC) 2005010917 (OCoLC)60189528 |
| ISBN |
9780253111579 (electronic book) |
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0253111579 (electronic book) |
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025334669X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253346698 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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025321811X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253218117 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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