The weak legal position of the Indonesian state in tackling problem illegal immigrants has resulted no longer being a transit country for from Middle East to Australia but become destination because people Indonesia are known be friendly and welcoming dealing with who later became countries target seeking political asylum, human smuggling agents deliberately made smuggling. Various efforts have...

A 42-year-old African male was brought by the police to the emergency department under suspicion of drug smuggling by body-packing. Plain abdominal radiograph showed multiple foreign bodies within the gastrointestinal tract. Contrast-enhanced abdominal CT confirmed the findings, and the patient admitted to have swallowed "balls" of hashish. Body-packing is a recognized method of smuggling drugs...

Internal British American Tobacco (BAT) documents 1 have been explicit about the knowledge of cigarette smuggling into Vietnam. In one document , Vietnam Status Report (12 May 1995), it was stated: " Cigarette imports were banned 6 years ago. Smuggled sales into Vietnam are currently estimated at approximately 7 bn [bil-lion] p.a. although prior to a crack-down in 1990 (when all smuggling was v...

Abstract Strong drivers and demand for migrants in Southeast Asia, combined with often costly complex channels regular migration, have led to high levels of irregular migration throughout the region. These dynamics have, turn, created a substantial market services migrant smugglers place many at risk human trafficking other violations their rights. While smuggling are key concern Asian States, ...

Abstract When examining the issue of human smuggling and its facilitating practises, mainstream ir analyses emphasize criminal illegal aspects. Such securocratic interpretations, largely mirroring EU concerns over migration, have managed to crowd-out alternative explanations this phenomenon, detaching it from issues capital class. Drawing on fieldwork secondary sources, paper argues that people...