Completely revised and updated: an essential edited collection of essays on global human smuggling. Migrant smuggling is now more entrenched than ever in many regions around the world, with efforts to combat it both largely unsuccessful and often counterproductive. In Global Human Smuggling, editors Luigi Achilli and David Kyle bring together up-to-date contributions from a wide array of interdisciplinary scholars on the most important issues related to this global phenomenon. Contributors explore human smuggling in several nuanced forms across diverse regions, examining its deep historical, social, economic, and cultural roots as well as its broad political consequences. This volume represents a cutting-edge chronicle of the state of human smuggling today, its many complexities not easily reduced to simple moral narratives, and how researchers uncover the lives it affects, both directly and indirectly. Just as migrants cross borders for a variety of reasons, many of those involved in migrant smuggling activities have an equally diverse set of motivations and organizations, ranging from those helping people escape persecution and violence to transnational criminal syndicates preying on the vulnerabilities of migrants attempting to leave their countries. Building on the pioneering work of its previous two editions, this new volume introduces contributions organized by the themes of control, complexity, and creativity. Spanning issues around the world, the essays in this essential collection cover topics such as global migrant smuggling networks, government responses, multinational initiatives against human trafficking for sexual exploitation, representations of human smuggling in mainstream narratives of migration, and more. With nineteen new contributors, Global Human Smuggling represents the progress of human smuggling research on every continent and offers a rare, research-based, conceptual framework to the study of this critical global issue.
Luigi Achilli is a senior researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and at the Christian Michaelson Institute in Bergen, Norway. David Kyle is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California at Davis. He is the author of Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador.
Preface, by Morgane Nicot Introduction: Control, Complexity, and Creativity, by David Kyle and Luigi Achilli 1. Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Reconsidered, by David Kyle and John Dale 2. How the State Made Smuggling and Smuggling Made the State: Immigration Control and Evasion on the U.S.-Mexican Line, by Peter Andreas 3. Multinational Initiatives Against Global Trafficking in Persons for Sexual Exploitation, 1899-1999, by Eileen P. Scully 4. Multilateral Protocols on Trafficking and Smuggling: Divergent Paths of Cooperation and Disintegration Since 2000, by Sarah P. Lockhart 5. Human Smuggling and Terrorism: Complex Adaptive Systems and Special Operations, by David C. Ellis 6. The Unfolding of Migrant Smuggling Across the EU-Turkey Border: Structural, Institutional, and Agency-based Factors, by Ahmet Icduygu 7. The Double Duality of Migrant Smugglers: An Analytical Framework, by Jorgen Carling 8. Financial Elements of Clandestine Journeys: How You Pay Your Smuggler Matters, by Kim Wilson 9. The Burners: Smuggling Networks and Maghrebi Migrants, by Matt Herbert 10. Smuggling Migrants from Africa To Europe: Threat, Resource, or Bargaining Chip?, by Luca Raineri 11. Irregular Migration and Human Smuggling Networks: The Case of North Korea, by Kyunghee Kook 12. People Smuggling in Southeast Asia: Rohingya and Chin Stories of Agency, Freedom and Power in Cross Border Movement, by Gerhard Hoffstaedter 13. The Experiences of Women as Facilitators of Irregular Migration - And What They Say About the Way We Think About Migrant Smuggling, by Gabriella Sanchez 14. Enter the Boogeyman: Representations of Human Smuggling in Mainstream Narratives of Migration, by Luigi Achilli and Alice Massari 15. Ecuadorean Migrant Smuggling: A Diversity of Contemporary Patterns and Dynamics, by Soledad Alvarez Velasco 16. Combatting People Smuggling with the Same Crime? Australia's "Creative" Anti-smuggling Efforts in Indonesia, by Antje Missbach and Wayne Palmer 17. The Rise of "Border Security": Chaos, Clutter, and Complexity in a Technological Arms Race, by Victor Manjarrez 18. Transnational Struggles and the 'State': Biopower and Biopolitics in the Case of a Nigerian Human Trafficking Ring, by Gregory Feldman 19. The Transformation of Mexican Migrant Smuggling Networks during the 21st Century, by Simon Pedro Izcara Palacios 20. In Search of Protection: Irregular Mobility Among Palestinian Youth in Gaza, by Caitlin Procter Index
Completely revised and updated: an essential edited collection of essays on global human smuggling.
