Parisa Diba

Purpose Integrated service models aim to simplify access, enable effective delivery, remove duplication and provide a holistic and person-centred approach. This project explored the development of integrated well-being services in two local authorities in North-East England. The purpose of this paper is to address this issue. Design/methodology/ap...

Metering is fundamental in the efficient operation of electricity networks, as meters facilitate controlled usage and improve health and well-being. However, across the Global South, meters have often been found to be lacking or not fit for purpose. Therefore, this study sought to determine residents' perceptions and access to electricity metering...

Background People younger than 65 years living in deprivation are nearly four times more likely to die of COVID-19 and, in Middlesbrough, life expectancy is 12·6 years lower than those in the least deprived areas of England. We aimed to examine COVID-19 recovery from the perspective of members of the local communities in Middlesbrough. Methods In...

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 smart...

This chapter interrogates the role of the internet and digital technologies in the processes of human smuggling and trafficking in the UK. The research presented here examines how the Internet and digital technologies facilitate the recruitment and transportation/entry phases of people smuggling towards and/or into the UK, and the recruitment, tran...

This chapter explores the role of the Internet and digital technologies in the processes of human smuggling and human trafficking in Italy. Specifically, the study analyses how the surface web and social media (Facebook, Instagram) facilitate the stages of recruitment and transportation in the smuggling of migrants travelling from third countries o...

This research used critical discursive psychology to analyse anti-Semitic and Islamophobic discourse on the English Defence League’s (EDL) Facebook page. The discussion by Facebook users began about ‘reopening’ concentration camps, in which to incarcerate Muslims. Facebook users also expressed anti-Semitic discourse such as Holocaust denial, and th...

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....

There are justified concerns but little empirical evidence about the implications of the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the business of human smuggling. The knowledge base on the use of ICT in human smuggling has rarely gone beyond the rather generic observation that the Internet and mobile technologies are available to...