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Forceful Hope

When I was recently asked to participate in UCL’s Refuge in a Moving World Seminar Series on a panel titled “Forced migration in, through,…

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, India and…

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 an unmonitored…

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 foundations of…

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 decade. Among…

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 aims to…

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 aims to…

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…

Round Table: Responses by Shahram Khosravi

Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites…

Round Table: Responses by Nassim Majidi

Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites…

Round Table: Responses by Ilse van Liempt

Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites…

Round Table: Responses by Jason Danforth

Question 1: The rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites…