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Small-scale smuggling is widespread in all Central European post-socialist countries, but also prevalent in other parts of the world, such as at the Afghan-Iranian, Mexican-Belize and Rwandan-Congolese borders. Smuggling of gold bullion from Peru to Bolivia is a widespread practice, with smugglers using special clothing such as ‘long, purpose-built vertical pockets in a bulbous down-filled coat’ designed exclusively for smuggling gold bullion<ref>Finnegan, W. (2015): „Tears of the sun. The gold rush at the top of the world.“ In: The New Yorker, April 20, 2015. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/20/tears-of-the-sun, accessed 7 July, 2015.</ref>. Examples in Europe range from cigarette smuggling across the Polish-Ukrainian border to smuggling household commodities from Russia to Finland and trafficking of walnuts from Azerbaijan into Georgia. | Small-scale smuggling is widespread in all Central European post-socialist countries, but also prevalent in other parts of the world, such as at the Afghan-Iranian, Mexican-Belize and Rwandan-Congolese borders. Smuggling of gold bullion from Peru to Bolivia is a widespread practice, with smugglers using special clothing such as ‘long, purpose-built vertical pockets in a bulbous down-filled coat’ designed exclusively for smuggling gold bullion<ref>Finnegan, W. (2015): „Tears of the sun. The gold rush at the top of the world.“ In: The New Yorker, April 20, 2015. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/20/tears-of-the-sun, accessed 7 July, 2015.</ref>. Examples in Europe range from cigarette smuggling across the Polish-Ukrainian border to smuggling household commodities from Russia to Finland and trafficking of walnuts from Azerbaijan into Georgia. | ||
Due to its ambivalent nature and functional relevance for survival, small-scale smuggling is a sensitive research topic<ref>Lee, R.M.(1993):Doing research on sensitive topics. London: Sage.</ref>. In order to collect data, a relationship of trust between researcher and smuggler should be established. This needs time, long-term ethnographic fieldwork and a mixture of methods such as participant observation and in-depth | Due to its ambivalent nature and functional relevance for survival, small-scale smuggling is a sensitive research topic<ref>Lee, R.M.(1993):Doing research on sensitive topics. London: Sage.</ref>. In order to collect data, a relationship of trust between researcher and smuggler should be established. This needs time, long-term ethnographic fieldwork and a mixture of methods such as participant observation and in-depth interviews. | ||
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