Corrigendum: Community Dimensions of Smuggling: The Case of Afghanistan and Somalia

• DOI: 10.1177/0002716220918591
• Published date: 01 March 2020
• Date: 01 March 2020

ANNALS, AAPSS, 688, March 2020 271

DOI: 10.1177/0002716220918591

Corrigendum:

Community Dimensions of Smuggling:

The Case of Afghanistan and Somalia

Majidi, N. 2018. Community Dimensions of Smuggling: The Case of Afghanistan

and Somalia. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social

Science 676 (1): 97–113. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716217751895

The journal (The ANNALS), in collaboration with the author (Majidi), would like

to clarify the use of the word “dahabshiil” on pages 107 and 111 of the article.

“Lacagta la dirayo” is the Somali term for “money transfer” and that term—not

“dahabshiil”—is the Somali term that generally refers to entities that facilitate

money transfers. Dahabshiil is the trade name of Dahabshiil Transfer Services

Limited, a multinational company that provides regulated money transfer ser-

vices. Dahabshiil is also a trademark, and its use is not synonymous with the

people or processes generally involved in money transfers in Somalia. To use the

term in such a way is incorrect.

The author and journal in no way intended to imply that Dahabshiil Transfer

Services Limited participates in informal money transfers among individuals who

are involved in human smuggling. The term as used in the article does not refer

to the company, Dahabshiil Transfer Services Limited, which is a highly regu-

lated institution; the largest money transfer service company in Africa; and the

provider of money transfer services in 126 countries worldwide, and in 40 African

countries, including Somalia.