Why Migrant Smuggling Pays

An Annotated Bibliography Migrant Smuggling in Asia

The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border

The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforc...

Tobacco Smuggling

Why Migrant Languages in the Australian National Corpus?

For a good many years, Australia enjoyed an outstanding reputation internationally for its pluralistic language policies. They were largely informed by research and by advocacy resulting from research, including research into the actual languages spoken in Australia. More recently there has been a decline in commitment not only by governments to multiculturalism but also by university departmen...

Smuggling Taxol into cancer cells

Some cancer cells evade chemotherapy by expressing cell membrane pumps to expel toxins. One such pump is the P-glycoprotein, which exports the widely used chemotherapy compound Taxol as it passes through the membrane. To counter P-glycoprotein efflux, Elena Dubikovskaya et al. modified Taxol’s structure, attaching a peptide that alters the mechanism by which the compound enters cells. The new c...