This brief offers a unique and innovative account of the role of internet and digital technologie... more This brief offers a unique and innovative account of the role of internet and digital technologies in human smuggling and trafficking. It explores new illegal paths through the web by analyzing how traffickers and smugglers use the visible and dark web during different phases of the process, including recruitment, transportation, and exploitation. Featuring case studies from two European countries, Italy and the United Kingdom, it outlines the types of websites used in these processes, how they are used, and common behavior patterns. With a view of transnational criminal activities involving actors from individual criminal entrepreneurs to organized crime groups and fluid large criminal networks, this brief will be of use to law enforcement, researchers of trafficking and organized crime, and policy makers.
La ricerca sociologica sul tempo è caratterizzata dalla storica separa-zione tra due direzioni di... more La ricerca sociologica sul tempo è caratterizzata dalla storica separa-zione tra due direzioni di ricerca che procedono in modo separato e fanno riferimento a famiglie teoriche molto diverse. Da un lato vi sono gli studi sull'esperienza temporale, che tematiz-zano le ...
This brief offers a unique and innovative account of the role of internet and digital technologie... more This brief offers a unique and innovative account of the role of internet and digital technologies in human smuggling and trafficking. It explores new illegal paths through the web by analyzing how traffickers and smugglers use the visible and dark web during different phases of the process, including recruitment, transportation, and exploitation. Featuring case studies from two European countries, Italy and the United Kingdom, it outlines the types of websites used in these processes, how they are used, and common behavior patterns. With a view of transnational criminal activities involving actors from individual criminal entrepreneurs to organized crime groups and fluid large criminal networks, this brief will be of use to law enforcement, researchers of trafficking and organized crime, and policy makers.
The two case studies from Italy and the UK presented in this book offer compelling evidence about... more The two case studies from Italy and the UK presented in this book offer compelling evidence about the nature and the extent of the use of ICT in the business of human smuggling and trafficking. As such, these findings should be hardly surprising, as, twenty years into the twenty-first century, the use of technologies such as mobile phones and smartphones, the internet and the social web is ubiquitous in the everyday life across the globe. It is inevitable that the people involved in the business of human smuggling and trafficking tap into the potential of these technologies—there is really no reason to assume that illegal entrepreneurs will not take recourse to the means that every other entrepreneur in every other business sector uses, just as their clients will use the very same technologies as a matter of course. In fact, what is surprising is the relatively slow ignition of academic research into this aspect of the business, to such an extent that our effort addresses a knowledg...
The aim of this study is to understand the role of social media in migrant smuggling. It aims at ... more The aim of this study is to understand the role of social media in migrant smuggling. It aims at highlighting if and how social media and digital technologies are modifying: a) the characteristics of criminal groups dedicated to migrant smuggling, i.e. the methods of criminal association, the structure of criminal groups, and the forms of collaboration among them; b) the smuggling of migrants as organized criminal activity; c) the social networks of migrants using the services provided by the smugglers. Research results suggest that social media are modifying, at least partially, both the characteristics of the criminal organizations involved in migrant smuggling, and the organization of criminal activities. Furthermore, social media are facilitating the migratory processes and reducing related costs and risks by connecting potential migrants, both among themselves and with those already in the destination countries.
This brief offers a unique and innovative account of the role of internet and digital technologie... more This brief offers a unique and innovative account of the role of internet and digital technologies in human smuggling and trafficking. It explores new illegal paths through the web by analyzing how traffickers and smugglers use the visible and dark web during different phases of the process, including recruitment, transportation, and exploitation. Featuring case studies from two European countries, Italy and the United Kingdom, it outlines the types of websites used in these processes, how they are used, and common behavior patterns. With a view of transnational criminal activities involving actors from individual criminal entrepreneurs to organized crime groups and fluid large criminal networks, this brief will be of use to law enforcement, researchers of trafficking and organized crime, and policy makers.
La ricerca sociologica sul tempo è caratterizzata dalla storica separa-zione tra due direzioni di... more La ricerca sociologica sul tempo è caratterizzata dalla storica separa-zione tra due direzioni di ricerca che procedono in modo separato e fanno riferimento a famiglie teoriche molto diverse. Da un lato vi sono gli studi sull'esperienza temporale, che tematiz-zano le ...
This brief offers a unique and innovative account of the role of internet and digital technologie... more This brief offers a unique and innovative account of the role of internet and digital technologies in human smuggling and trafficking. It explores new illegal paths through the web by analyzing how traffickers and smugglers use the visible and dark web during different phases of the process, including recruitment, transportation, and exploitation. Featuring case studies from two European countries, Italy and the United Kingdom, it outlines the types of websites used in these processes, how they are used, and common behavior patterns. With a view of transnational criminal activities involving actors from individual criminal entrepreneurs to organized crime groups and fluid large criminal networks, this brief will be of use to law enforcement, researchers of trafficking and organized crime, and policy makers.
The two case studies from Italy and the UK presented in this book offer compelling evidence about... more The two case studies from Italy and the UK presented in this book offer compelling evidence about the nature and the extent of the use of ICT in the business of human smuggling and trafficking. As such, these findings should be hardly surprising, as, twenty years into the twenty-first century, the use of technologies such as mobile phones and smartphones, the internet and the social web is ubiquitous in the everyday life across the globe. It is inevitable that the people involved in the business of human smuggling and trafficking tap into the potential of these technologies—there is really no reason to assume that illegal entrepreneurs will not take recourse to the means that every other entrepreneur in every other business sector uses, just as their clients will use the very same technologies as a matter of course. In fact, what is surprising is the relatively slow ignition of academic research into this aspect of the business, to such an extent that our effort addresses a knowledg...
The aim of this study is to understand the role of social media in migrant smuggling. It aims at ... more The aim of this study is to understand the role of social media in migrant smuggling. It aims at highlighting if and how social media and digital technologies are modifying: a) the characteristics of criminal groups dedicated to migrant smuggling, i.e. the methods of criminal association, the structure of criminal groups, and the forms of collaboration among them; b) the smuggling of migrants as organized criminal activity; c) the social networks of migrants using the services provided by the smugglers. Research results suggest that social media are modifying, at least partially, both the characteristics of the criminal organizations involved in migrant smuggling, and the organization of criminal activities. Furthermore, social media are facilitating the migratory processes and reducing related costs and risks by connecting potential migrants, both among themselves and with those already in the destination countries.
During the past three decades, Italy has changed from a country of emigration to one of immigrati... more During the past three decades, Italy has changed from a country of emigration to one of immigration. This has produced significant changes in the country’s social, cultural and economic structures and poses major new challenges to the education system. An important indicator of the changing situation is the increasing number of immigrant children attending Italian schools. This article presents the findings of a study conducted in upper secondary schools in Trento (a province in north‐eastern Italy). The study was designed to explore the educational performance and attitudes of Italian and non‐Italian students and their friendships. Data were gathered during the 2005/06 school year by means of a questionnaire distributed to 1279 students in 72 classrooms. The sample’s diverse composition allowed us to assess differences, according to ethnic background, in student attitudes towards learning as well as their scholastic performance. Finally, we looked at classroom composition in terms of foreign student numbers.
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