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SUMMARY:The Genealogy and Geography of Scam Centers
LOCATION:Sala de Comisiones
DESCRIPTION:From the opium economies of the nineteenth century to the triad
 -linked casino industries of late-twentieth-century Macau and Hong Kong, an
 d further to the scam compounds proliferating today in spaces of weak or ne
 gotiated sovereignty in Cambodia and Myanmar, illicit economies in Asia rev
 eal a deep historical and infrastructural continuity. This panel traces how
  transnational monetary and logistical infrastructures have evolved across 
 the region, with particular emphasis on the emergence of scam compounds as 
 hubs of labor recruitment, coercion, and affective management, tightly inte
 grated with digital communication and financial transfer systems. Rather th
 an isolated criminal enclaves, these compounds operate as laboratories of t
 erritorial and organizational experimentation, where labor regimes, jurisdi
 ctional loopholes, and enforcement gaps are continually recalibrated.\nWe e
 xamine scam centers as semi-sovereign infrastructures of financial governan
 ce, where criminal syndicates, private capital, armed groups, and state off
 icials negotiate authority, taxation, security, and labor. These enclaves s
 erve as nodal points linking frontier spaces to broader financial and logis
 tical networks, enabling illicit revenue to be generated, laundered, circul
 ated, and reinvested across borders. Situating these sites within a genealo
 gy that extends from opium to casinos to underground banking, the panel ret
 hinks how illicitness, violence, and accumulation are co-produced through t
 he layered geographies of sovereignty, territory, and capital in contempora
 ry Southeast Asia.
URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/the-genealogy-and-geography-of-scam-centers
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