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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"border control"”.
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The Intervention for Peace and Border Control Safety in South Africa
Migration control is a burning issue worldwide and a politically contested in South Africa. This paper analyses challenges of illegal immigration that poses danger and threats into South Africa which triggered the intervention of peace and border control for safety and security as a measure. The …
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Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of Europe's Frontiers
… over the politically sensitive issue of border control, thereby challenging what for a long time was the dominant national approach to policy-making in this domain. In order to account for the regime’s emergence and success, a constructivist analytical framework centred on the notion of …
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Border Control Paradox: The Political Economy of Smuggling Between Colombia and Venezuela
… sovereignty, focusing on the Colombia–Venezuela border between 2015 and 2022. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Norte de Santander and adjacent Venezuelan territories, the study develops a theory of criminal governance in borderlands, analyzing how non-state actors—particularly the …
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Beyond the Land: Maritime Interactions, Border Control, and Regional Powers between China and Korea, 1500-1637
… maritime interactions and the two states’ border control practices. It further analyzes the interplay between the maritime expansion of Chinese regional military powers, and the Ming and Chosŏn authorities.</p> <p>This study argues that the China-Korea northern space experienced a …
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An analysis of the dynamics and effects of interdepartmental policy discord on post-apartheid South Africa’s border control and border security
Borders have a primary responsibility of separating political entities (states) and the creation of national identities within states. In the African context, borders were created through colonial fiat, and have remained intact, except in the two cases: that of South Sudan and Eritrea. This study …
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Irregular migrations into South Africa: a comparative analysis of the Beitbridge Border Control and management system in apartheid and post-apartheid eras, 1980-2017
This study examined the border control and management mechanisms that were in place during the apartheid era and those that exist now that curb illegal entry into South Africa through the Beitbridge Border. In order to fully understand this, the study examined the nature of South Africa’s …
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Spoken English at airport/border control customs: Designing and evaluating an interactive model for occupational English with adult second language learners on the go
… English needs of Costa Rican airport and border control customs officers. In Phase II, an interactive model prototype was iteratively designed, created, tested, redesigned, improved, and retested with participant users following insights from the needs assessment. In Phase III, an …
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Becoming "Subjects" of the Visa Regime: How the Ban-opticon of the Canadian Visa System Affects Chinese Applicants
… visa mechanism deployed by governments on state borders. I take the Canadian temporary residence visa system experienced by Chinese applicants as my working example. Though the visa system is generally regarded as something essential and efficient for border control, I argue that it only gains …
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Do European Union measures against people smuggling constitute non-entry and within this context violate refugee´s rights?
… the European Union's migration policies and border control strategies have come under scrutiny. The European Union's commitment to human dignity, freedom, democracy, and human rights is foundational, yet criticism persists regarding its approach to refugees and migrants. The emphasis on …
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Governing the 'immigration nation'. Development, humanitarianism and migration politics in Morocco
… governance, development securitisation and border control to analyse the role played by donors, NGOs and IOs in the regulation of three spheres of migration governance: the politicisation of migration, the implementation of a social policy targeting migrants and refugees, and the regulation …
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Airport Passenger Processing Technology: A Biometric Airport Journey
… automated self-service gates for boarding and border control. These solutions can be integrated with biometric systems to enhance passenger handling. This thesis analyzes the current passenger processing technology implemented at airports around the world and their associated challenges that …
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Comparing United States Counternarcotics Strategies in Colombia, Afghanistan, and Mexico
… counternarcotics strategy in Mexico depends on border control and military training and equipment; monetary aid and alternative development remain scant compared to Colombia and Afghanistan. US drug imports partially stabilized but continue to flow through the US-Mexican border. This thesis …
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The immigration challenge: the use of U.S. Military Force to control illegal immigration from Mexico
Controlling illegal immigration into the United States has become a major issue in U.S. politics. A February 1997 report released by the INS estimates that there are currently 5 million illegal aliens in the United States. In 1986, when the estimated number of illegal aliens was also 5 million …
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Towards building reliable solar-powered remotely-deployed sensing systems
… such as environmental monitoring and border control, sensing devices will not only be deployed at home and in urban areas, but also pervade every corner of the world. Remotely deployed systems have to work in an unattended manner, face harsh and complex environments, and rely on …
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Terroir after the terror : landscape and representation in nineteenth-century France
… successor, Louis Garneray, as a form of visual border control; the third, the impact of a stringent forestry code passed in 1827 on Barbizon artists' aesthetic and material choices; and finally, the state's decision, in 1857, to drain wetlands in the southwest and the resulting effort on the …
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Aerial Captures: Extractivism and the Logistical Media of Air Travel in Postwar Canada
… in air travel, combined with changing border control policies and technologies, also meant the proliferation of extractive ways of seeing the body through biometrics and other imaging technologies in the security theatre of airports. I therefore examine Canada’s three busiest airports, …
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What does border externalization mean and what impact do the migration policies of the EU have on migrants' and refugees' human rights? What are the legal consequences for states that commit the human rights violations?
… externalisation, that is, shifting the migration control away from its own borders (as a second, destination country) and towards third countries. This practice challenges human rights law. The thesis addresses the meaning and development of the border externalization. Furthermore, it explains how …
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Europa som nation : En ny stil i nationalismens genre
… to 2001, as a requirement to cross the external borders of the EU and as a symbol of a united Europe free from a spectacular nationalism of the member states. According to nationalism, every nation should have its own state, and every state should be legitimized by a nation. If the modern …
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Protectionism and national migration policy in South Africa
… the dramatic rise of people flowing into its borders post-apartheid from the continent and beyond. However, in response to the large influx of migrants (legal and illegal), South Africa has adopted protectionist and nationalistic migration policies, emphasizing border control, rather than …
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A Subject Based Methodology for Measuring Interclass Bias in Facial Recognition Verification Systems’
… applications, such as immigration and border control, hiring, and the criminal justice system. Recent research has uncovered serious concerns about equality and transparency in facial recognition algorithms, finding performance disparities between groups of people based on their …
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