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What do we know about human trafficking and scam compounds in Southeast Asia (2020–2025)? A qualitative meta-synthesis of coercive deviant enterprises
Get PDFThis study synthesizes peer-reviewed research on human trafficking linked to scam compounds in Southeast Asia (2020 to 2025) to understand their organizational, spatial, and coercive infrastructures. Applying a Qualitative Meta-Synthesis (QMS) protocol, it integrates findings from fifty publications. These outputs comprise forty-five journal articles, three conference papers, one book chapter, and one monograph. As a consolidated evidentiary base, this QMS constitutes the first systematic review to integrate scam-compound economies into broader research on trafficking and forced labor in Southeast Asia. The included studies employ qualitative, mixed-methods, and conceptual approaches, drawing on survivor interviews, NGO and law enforcement perspectives, and legal analyses. Results show that scam compounds function as industrialized socio-technical systems embedded within licit-illicit economies, exploiting digital infrastructures, deregulated Special Economic Zones, and migration precarity. Cross-study patterns highlight hierarchical divisions of labor, coercion, and liminal victim-offender roles. Divergences reflect local political economies and adaptive organizational forms. The synthesis situates scam compounds within the broader history of illicit economies. The study demonstrates the value of the QMS for advancing theoretical coherence in fragmented literatures on deviance
The design and evaluation of a postdoctoral mentoring programme to support the academic and professional development of NIHR Academy members
Get PDFPurpose This study provides insight into the design, implementation and evaluation of a structured developmental mentoring programme, created to support the academic and professional development of postdoctoral researchers from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. The research context is the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Academy. The Academy attracts, trains and supports health and care researchers through personal or institutional career development awards, as well as training and academic career development within NIHR infrastructure, schools and capacity-building structures. The mentoring programme is open to all UK-based postdoctoral Academy members. Design/methodology/approach The approach first sets out the context, purpose and design of the mentoring programme. Second, we explore the extent to which the mentor- and mentee-defined relationship objectives were fulfilled and whether the programme met the underlying principles of the NIHR. Finally, we identified participants’ level of satisfaction with the programme. The study adopted a pragmatic multiple-method evaluation, with matched-pair mentee and mentor interviews that were thematically analysed. Findings The study found that all participants felt they met all or most of their mentoring objectives and overall programme objectives. The mentoring programme was highly valued by a diverse range of participating mentors and mentees from different health, care and research disciplines, reflective of the NIHR Academy. Research limitations/implications Limitations of this study include the short-term outcomes that participants were asked to reflect on at the end of the one-year programme; other studies may capture longer-term outcomes through longitudinal evaluation. Originality/value The study contributes to the body of knowledge regarding the benefits and organisational support that postdoctoral researchers (mentees) and their mentors receive through mentoring programme participation. This study underscores the importance and impact of a structured, formal organisational mentoring programme
Monopsony and the wage effects of migration
No full textIf labour markets are competitive, migration can only affect native wages via marginal products. But under imperfect competition, migration may also increase wage mark-downs—if firms have greater monopsony power over migrants than natives, but cannot perfectly wage discriminate. While marginal products depend on relative labour supplies across skill cells, mark-downs depend on migrant concentration within them. This insight can help rationalise empirical violations of canonical migration models. Using US data, we conclude that migration does increase mark-downs: this expands aggregate native income, but redistributes it from workers to firms. Policies which constrain monopsony power over migrants can mitigate these adverse wage effects
The bazaar as archive: legibility, cosmopolitanism, and 'refugee entrepreneurs' in Delhi
No full textThis article examines three refugee-established markets in Delhi, Gaffar Market in Karol Bagh after Partition, Majnu ka Tilla following the arrival of Tibetan exiles in the 1960s, and Little Kabul in Lajpat Nagar shaped by Afghan migration from the 1980s, to explore how displaced communities created forms of urban belonging through commerce. These markets did not grow from state-led rehabilitation policies alone, but from tolerated encroachments, kin-based credit, remembered trade routes, and the tactical use of temporary documents to claim legibility while existing on the margins of the state. Drawing on archival materials, including zoning reports, eviction files, newspaper reports, and planning memos, the article develops the idea of the bazaar as archive: a site where histories of displacement are bureaucratically inscribed through economic activity. It argues that these markets reflect distinct refugee modes of urbanism, which generate varied forms of vernacular cosmopolitanism, a public openness shaped not by law or multicultural planning, but by shared consumption, proximity, and economic trust. These commercial geographies reveal how post-colonial cities absorbed displacement not only through formal schemes but also through the everyday logics of trade and neighbourhood familiarity. Additionally, in the absence of legal recognition, refugees have left their marks through cultural and economic means
Recovering women: a case study in academic-archive collaboration
No full textHow can archives and universities work together to build research skills and confidence among the public? This article examines one model based on a collaboration between The London Archives and the London School of Economics. The project used public involvement in an academic project to scaffold participants’ acquisition of research skills and independence, focusing on learning through research. This exploited the open-ended process of enquiry that characterizes much historical research as a mechanism to foster creative research work by novice historians. It did so within a framework that ensured their contributions had wider value. The project also developed an effective way to engage directly with potentially challenging material, exploring strategies for managing trauma-informed archival practice
The social welfare value of the global food system
No full textThe global food system provides nourishment to most of the world’s eight billion people, generates trillions of dollars of goods and services, and employs more than one billion people. On the other hand, it generates substantial dietary health costs and environmental harms. Policymakers are asking about the overall contribution of the global food system to social welfare and how much larger it might be on a sustainable path. This paper describes our efforts to answer these questions. We couple multiple domain-specific models into a large-scale integrated assessment modelling framework capable of quantifying the outcomes of different food-system scenarios for incomes, health and the environment up to 2050, at a highly disaggregated level. We take these multi-dimensional outcomes and value them using a system of nested utility functions, building on recent work in environmental economics. We find that, relative to current trends, the bundle of measures in a Food System Transformation scenario would provide a large boost to global social welfare equivalent to increasing global GDP by about 7%. Changes in income, environment and health all contribute positively. Measures to change diets are particularly beneficial, although a caveat is that our welfare estimates exclude possible consumer disutility from dietary changes. The results are robust to changes in key utility/damage parameters
What happens at the interface of digitalisation and accounting?
No full textOrganisations adopting digital technologies are seeing alterations in the structure and nature of data they track and process. Within this landscape of change, accounting systems tend to focus on the collection and aggregation of financial transaction data and the provision of quantitative and non-financial information to support decision-making processes. Evidence is, however, emerging that accounting controls and financial reporting are being reshaped in digitalising environments. We consider a number of accounting issues tied to the intersection of digitalisation and organisational processes highlighting the control implications of these changes. We identify related research possibilities and discuss the value of methodological pluralism in studying accounting in digitalising contexts
Supervisor interpersonal justice and worker turnover intention in global supply chains: evidence from Bangladesh garment factories
No full textGlobal brands’ simultaneous commercial and social compliance requirements may exacerbate supervisor stress and abuse of workers at export factories. Yet, the impacts of supervisors have been underexamined in private regulation. This article draws on the organizational justice literature to analyze the effects of supervisor interpersonal justice (SIJ)—treating subordinates with respect and propriety—on garment workers and how these effects are shaped by labor rights institutions in the workplace and external environment. The authors find that SIJ reduces workers’ turnover intention directly and indirectly through engendering positive affect. The results also suggest that SIJ may have a stronger relationship with positive affect in the presence of worker participation committees (WPCs) and stringent monitoring programs such as the Bangladesh Accord. This article thereby spotlights the relatively neglected role of supervisors in influencing worker well-being and turnover intention in global supply chains
Revisiting Kemal Kaya in the turmoil of 1930s Xinjiang
No full textKemal Kaya is an Ottoman-born Turkish nationalist who played a contested role in the tumultuous Xinjiang region during the 1930s. Despite his involvement, the literature on Uyghur nationalism and Xinjiang during this period has yet to address his role in any meaningful depth. Conducting an atheoretical idiographic case study and content analysis, this study seeks to bridge this significant gap through the following questions: How did Türkiye and China interpret Kaya’s actions and motivations at the time? What do these perceptions reveal about the geopolitical complexities of Xinjiang during this period and the international dimensions of the region’s unrest? By contextualizing archival findings within the (geo)political and military developments in Xinjiang during the 1930s, this research offers a fresh perspective on Xinjiang’s (geo)political complexities, the region’s international dimensions unrest, and Kaya’s contested role in shaping its trajectory. Based on Chinese and Turkish archives alongside secondary sources, this study thereby focuses on Kaya’s political and military activities, particularly his involvement with the warlord Ma Zhongying and his contested identity as a potential Soviet or Japanese agent. Overall, the findings contribute to a nuanced understanding of Turkic nationalist movements abroad and the interplay of regional and global powers in shaping Xinjiang’s history