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Women Smuggling And The Men Who Help Them: Gender, Corruption And Illicit Networks In Senegal, Cynthia Howson
Women Smuggling And The Men Who Help Them: Gender, Corruption And Illicit Networks In Senegal, Cynthia Howson
SIAS Faculty Publications
This paper investigates gendered patterns of corruption and access to illicit networks among female cross-border traders near the Senegambian border. Despite a discourse of generosity and solidarity, access to corrupt networks is mediated by class and gender, furthering social differentiation, especially insofar as it depends on geographic and socio-economic affinity with customs officers, state representatives and well-connected transporters. Issues of organisational culture, occupational identity and interpersonal negotiations of power represent important sources of corruption that require an understanding of the actual dynamics of public administration. While smuggling depends on contesting legal and social boundaries, the most successful traders (and transporters) …
Review Of "The Country Of Memory: Remaking The Past In Late Socialist Vietnam," Edited By Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Mary Hanneman
Review Of "The Country Of Memory: Remaking The Past In Late Socialist Vietnam," Edited By Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Mary Hanneman
SIAS Faculty Publications
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Review Of "The First American Frontier: Transition To Capitalism In Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860,"By W.A. Dunaway, Mike Allen
SIAS Faculty Publications
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