Customs control over illicit international trade: The impact of different forms of illegality

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dc.contributor.authorSmart, Alan
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-04T20:09:11Z
dc.date.available2016-07-04T20:09:11Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis article examines a process central to the anthropological understanding of the state, how smuggling persists despite diverting a large portion of the revenues critical to the operation of state organizations. Developing the author’s prior typology of basic reasons why illegal practices persist, the article argues that there are five distinct types of smuggling, related to factors such as the social legitimacy of the activity. Legitimacy appears to make control much more difficult, but the availability of profits is also a key factor that can operate in the absence of social legitimacy, and which can contribute to the corruption of state officials. The result of intensified enforcement crackdowns also differs between the types, affecting the nature of the organization of smuggling practices. I conclude that the exploration of diversity among smuggling practices demonstrates the advantages of avoiding a treatment of illegality in general terms, and to pluralize the concept to understand the diverse motivations and forms that illegal practices can take.en_US
dc.description.grantingagencySSHRCen_US
dc.description.refereedYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationSmart, Alan (2015). "Customs control over illicit international trade: The impact of different forms of illegality." ANUAC 4(1): 42-65.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/33334
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51489
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherassociazione nazionale universitaria degli antropologi culturalien_US
dc.publisher.departmentAnthropology and Archaeologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.urlhttp://www.anuac.it/en_US
dc.subjectAnthropology of the stateen_US
dc.subjectSmugglingen_US
dc.subjectCustomsen_US
dc.subjectIllegalitiesen_US
dc.subjectLegitimacyen_US
dc.titleCustoms control over illicit international trade: The impact of different forms of illegalityen_US
dc.typejournal article
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