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 irregular migrants…
Read MoreWhile irregular migration is a global phenomenon, the mechanisms that allow for it to occur have received scant scholarly attention. Depictions of irregular migrants…
Read MoreWhat 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…
Read MoreWorkshop: Critical Approaches to Irregular Migration Facilitation: Grounding the Theory and Praxis of Human Smuggling Where: University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso,…
Read More1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? “Political agency?! What is political agency?” When I first…
Read MoreIn the second of three questions, human smuggling experts share their views on what actually constitutes the difference between human smuggling and trafficking. They…
Read MoreIrregular immigration has produced political heat across the world. Dramatic photos of migrants crammed into wretched boats circulate in the media, while journalistic accounts…
Read MoreA few months ago a fellow anthropologist colleague forwarded me a petition: Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions. The main goal is to…
Read MoreEdward Said once wrote: ‘Our age, with its modern warfare, imperialism and the quasi-theological ambitions of totalitarian rulers – is indeed the age of…
Read MoreOver the past week ‘the world’ has been in shock over the murders of the Charlie Hebdo journalists – or has it? We consider this issue via…
Read MoreDuring the ‘Arab Spring’, one of the most puzzling enigmas of al-Wihdat – a Palestinian refugee camp set up in 1955 on the outskirts…
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