Roundtable II: Responses by Luigi Achilli
What are the unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? From the perspective of media, border authorities, and public opinion, human smuggling is perceived as an exploita…
Author: Luigi Achilli
Call for papers: Critical Approaches to Irregular Migration Facilitation
Workshop: Critical Approaches to Irregular Migration Facilitation: Grounding the Theory and Praxis of Human Smuggling Where: University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas (USA) When: April…
Virtual Roundtable: Luigi Achilli’s Response #PoliticalAgency
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? “Political agency?! What is political agency?” When I first spoke about “political agency”…
Human Smugglers Roundtable: parsing smuggling from trafficking
In the second of three questions, human smuggling experts share their views on what actually constitutes the difference between human smuggling and trafficking. They all agree that the…
Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Movement: to Be or Not-to-Be? #Palestine
A few months ago a fellow anthropologist colleague forwarded me a petition: Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions. The main goal is to voice opposition to the…