Review: ‘The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling and Undercover Police Investigations in Europe’ by Gregory Feldman
Irregular migration has been one of the most popular topics of the political debates in Europe for already a few years. Issues …
HSR II: Consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies
In the first of two questions of the second roundtable, human smuggling experts share their views on the (un)intended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking …
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 …
Roundtable II: Responses by Alexandra Ricard-Guay
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Alexandra Ricard-Guay is a Research Associate at the European University Institute, Robert …
Roundtable II: Responses by Peter Tinti & Tuesday Reitano
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Migrant smugglers exist because there is demand for people to move irregularly …
Roundtable II: Responses by Robert Barsky
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Although aimed at reducing the suffering and risk incurred by migrants, forced …
The human smugglers roundtable is back!
While irregular migration is a global phenomenon, the mechanisms that allow for it to occur have received scant scholarly attention. Depictions of …
Roundtable II: Responses by Luca Rainieri
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Within fragile countries of the European neighbourhood and extended neighbourhood, anti-smuggling and …
Roundtable II: Responses by Jared P. Van Ramshorst
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies are intended to disrupt and deter cross-border smuggling …
Roundtable II: Responses by David Danelo
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Let’s consider two continents. At the beginning of 2015, Europe prided itself …
Roundtable II: Responses by Caitlin Blanchfield & Nina Valerie Kolowratnik
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies have far reaching impacts in borderlands communities. For …
Roundtable II: Responses by Wendy Vogt
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? It is widely estimated that hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked …
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, …
Introducing Europe at a Crossroads: An Investigation of European Politics of Austerity and Inhospitality
The idea of the European Union as a partnership for peace, an experiment in post-national democracy, and an abode for human rights, …
If we question the figure of the ‘smuggler’ and the ‘trafficker’, we should also raise questions about the state
When we raise questions about the assumed figures of the ‘smuggler’ and ‘trafficker’, we must also in parallel raise questions about agencies, …
The Buddhist people smuggler
Since the 1950s, there has been a continuous flow of Tibetans fleeing across the Himalayas, seeking refuge in exiled communities in Nepal, …
How Immigration Policies Create Smugglers
In the spring of 2007, when I was driving with Ramón (all names have been changed), a Mexican man who lives along …
What makes a good coyote? Mexican Migrants’ satisfaction with human smugglers
Clandestine migration across the US-Mexico border is a dangerous process. Not only must one avoid detection by US authorities, but also encounters …
Smuggling evolutions in North Africa: the need of a new approach
In what follows I present the evolution of migrant smuggling in north Africa over the last decade in order to understand the …
Rescuing Refugees in the context of Europe’s Fight Against Human Smuggling
Human smuggling has been considered a crime in the European context since the beginning of the 2000s. It has been defined in …
Crossing the border, blurring the boundaries: alternative views on human smuggling from the Horn of Africa to Europe
Hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa have systematically crossed international borders throughout Africa into Europe in the last …
Migrant deaths: explaining variations over time and across smuggling routes
Large amounts of economic, political and communication resources are being invested (how effectively is another matter) in trying to deal with the …
Human Smugglers | Workshop Abstracts – Part 2
The workshop “Critical approaches to irregular migration facilitation: dismantling the human smuggler narrative” is fast approaching! Unique in its genre, the workshop …
Human Smugglers | Workshop Abstracts – Part 1
The workshop “Critical approaches to irregular migration facilitation: dismantling the human smuggler narrative” is fast approaching! Unique in its genre, the workshop …