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Rethinking migrant smuggling through data
2021The war against migrant smuggling and its actors – described as the men behind the facilitation of migrants’ irregular journeys – are key elements of migration and border control policy worldwide. Almost immediately following his inauguration, president Joseph Biden sent a bill to the US Congress seeking to reform immigration law in the country while ...
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Migrant Smuggling: A Social Business
2012This chapter attempts to provide an overview of migrant smuggling across the Mediterranean both as a business that involves actors that are in it only for profit and as a social process, in other words an analysis of the social and cultural aspects of the phenomenon: for instance, the role of kinship and co-ethnic networks, the organization of the ...
Anna Triandafyllidou, Thanos Maroukis
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Smuggling of migrants refers to the procurement in order to obtain a material benefit of the illegal entry of a person into a country of which the person is not a national or a permanent resident. Smuggling of migrants thrives where border fortifications and controls are particularly tight and meaningful legal avenues of migration are lacking, thus ...
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Trafficked and Smuggled Migrants
2019Abstract This chapter focuses on the conventions adopted under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) that deal specifically with trafficked or smuggled migrants. In 2000, new legal classifications of migrants emerged with the adoption of the UN Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, and the UN Protocol to ...
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Faced with national borders that are increasingly impermeable to migration from the Global South, the transnational mobility of migrants and asylum seekers takes place through irregular channels, mostly under the control of more or less organized networks of smugglers and traffickers.
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Theoretical Frameworks on Migrant Smuggling
This chapter analyses theoretical frameworks of migrant smuggling. The business model considers the actors to be criminal players, state and migrants, where each takes decisions according to losses and benefits. The social model claims that migrant smuggling occurs within the migrants’ diaspora among co-nationals.+4 more sources
Migrants' Agency in Smuggling Routes
This chapter examines the increasing criminalisation of migrants within the European Union under human smuggling laws, focusing on the intersection of migrant agency and the complexity of smuggling networks. It analyses current legal and policy frameworks that adopt a binary view of migrants as either “objects” or “agents” of smuggling, resulting in ...openaire +3 more sources
2018
As Castles & Miller have rightly noted we are living in an ‘Age of Migration’ (2003) and global mobility is on the rise. At the same time we are also witnessing increasing intensification of border control and restrictions on mobility in various parts of the world.
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As Castles & Miller have rightly noted we are living in an ‘Age of Migration’ (2003) and global mobility is on the rise. At the same time we are also witnessing increasing intensification of border control and restrictions on mobility in various parts of the world.
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