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Economic necessity aside, small-scale smuggling contains one further very important function for individuals carrying it out: it replaces not only the economic, but also social aspects of formal employment. ‘I go out normally every day, just as I would go to work’ is how one smuggler put it. Small-scale smuggling structures daily life, providing social contact as well as filling the day with activity. | Economic necessity aside, small-scale smuggling contains one further very important function for individuals carrying it out: it replaces not only the economic, but also social aspects of formal employment. ‘I go out normally every day, just as I would go to work’ is how one smuggler put it. Small-scale smuggling structures daily life, providing social contact as well as filling the day with activity. | ||
Although smuggling has a short-term positive impact on the economic situation for individuals and the regional economy, these precarious activities cannot be relied upon for sustainable development in the long term, whether micro or meso-level. People involved in small-scale smuggling do not enjoy any social security and insurance benefits, thereby creating the danger of massive poverty among the elderly. This in turn will be very expensive for local authorities to deal with. | Although smuggling has a short-term positive impact on the economic situation for individuals and the regional economy, these precarious activities cannot be relied upon for sustainable development in the long term, whether micro or [[meso]]-level. People involved in small-scale smuggling do not enjoy any social security and insurance benefits, thereby creating the danger of massive poverty among the elderly. This in turn will be very expensive for local authorities to deal with. | ||
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. | ||