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Structural Readjustment: Crime, Development, and Repair in the Jamaican Lottery Scam
Anthropological Quarterly ( IF 0.853 ) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/anq.2018.0048
Jovan Scott Lewis

ABSTRACT:This article is an exploration of the recent phenomenon of "lottery scamming" in Jamaica. By using black market data to identify targets and presenting as call center employees, scammers subversively manipulate the development apparatuses of information communication technologies and business process outsourcing. The victimization the scam produces creates new circuits of interaction with North Americans that invert long-defined relations of capital between the United States and Jamaica, and reconfigures transnational connections of commerce and labor. The article demonstrates how scammers, through criminal manipulations of development, are able to reconcile longer histories and broader circuits of inequality through contemporary gain, producing a novel sense of postcolonial repair.

中文翻译:

结构调整:牙买加彩票骗局中的犯罪、发展和修复

摘要:本文是对牙买加近期“彩票诈骗”现象的探讨。诈骗者利用黑市数据识别目标,伪装成呼叫中心员工,颠覆性地操纵信息通信技术和业务流程外包的开发设备。骗局造成的受害创造了与北美人互动的新回路,颠覆了美国和牙买加之间长期定义的资本关系,并重新配置了商业和劳动力的跨国联系。这篇文章展示了诈骗者如何通过对发展的犯罪操纵,通过当代收益来调和更长的历史和更广泛的不平等循环,从而产生一种新的后殖民修复感。
更新日期:2018-01-01
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