Author: Gabriella Sanchez

Gabriella Sanchez is a faculty member at the National Security Studies Institute in the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of "Border Crossings and Human Smuggling" (Routledge 2015). When she is not trying to find ways to debunk myths on transnational organized crime by conducting ethnographic research on criminalized economies she frequents taco and shawarma stands at all times of the day regardless of the location. You can follow her tweets at @smugglingpaths.

Gabriella Sanchez

Gabriella Sanchez is a faculty member at the National Security Studies Institute in the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of "Border Crossings and Human Smuggling" (Routledge 2015). When she is not trying to find ways to debunk myths on transnational organized crime by conducting ethnographic research on criminalized economies she frequents taco and shawarma stands at all times of the day regardless of the location. You can follow her tweets at @smugglingpaths.

Irregular Migration Threads

The human smugglers roundtable is back!

April, 2017 / By Antje Missbach, Gabriella Sanchez and Luigi Achilli

While irregular migration is a global phenomenon, the mechanisms that allow for it to occur have received scant scholarly attention. […]

Irregular Migration Threads

Workshop: Critical Engagements to Irregular Migration Facilitation

March, 2016 / By Luigi Achilli and Gabriella Sanchez

Irregular immigration has produced political heat across the world. Dramatic photos of migrants crammed into wretched boats circulate in the

Essay One-Shots

Lessons from a King

January, 2016 / By Gabriella Sanchez

For El Señor On January 8 I followed – along with perhaps most of the world’s population connected to the net –