Global Human Smuggling

Buying Freedom in a Retreating World

Morgane Nicot, David Kyle, Luigi Achilli, David Kyle, John Dale, Peter Andreas, Eileen P. Scully, Sarah P. Lockhart, David C. Ellis, Ahmet İçduygu, Jørgen Carling, Kim Wilson, Matt Herbert, Luca Raineri, Kyunghee Kook, Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Gabriella Sanchez, Luigi Achilli, Alice Massari, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Antje, Luigi Achilli, David Kyle

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781421447520
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Law

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, the third edition of Global Human Smuggling represents the progress of human smuggling research on every continent and offers a rare research-based and conceptual framework for the study of this critical global issue.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction: Control, Complexity, and Creativity
• Chapter 1: Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Reconsidered
• Chapter 2: How the State Made Smuggling and Smuggling Made the State: A History of Immigration Control and Evasion on the US-Mexico Line
• Chapter 3: Multinational Initiatives against Global Trafficking in Persons for Sexual Exploitation, 1899–1999
• Chapter 4: Multilateral Protocols on Trafficking and Smuggling: Divergent Paths of Cooperation and Disintegration since 2000
• Chapter 5: Human Smuggling and Terrorism: Complex Adaptive Systems and Special Operations
• Chapter 6: Migrant Smuggling across the EU-Turkey Border: Structural, Institutional, and Agency-Based Factors
• Chapter 7: The Double Duality of Migrant Smugglers: An Analytical Framework
• Chapter 8: Financial Elements of Clandestine Journeys: How You Pay Your Smuggler Matters
• Chapter 9: The Burners: Smuggling Networks and Maghrebi Migrants
• Chapter 10: Smuggling Migrants from Africa to Europe: Threat, Resource, or Bargaining Chip?
• Chapter 11: Irregular Migration and Human Smuggling Networks: The Case of North Korea
• Chapter 12: People Smuggling in Southeast Asia: Rohingya and Chin Stories of Agency, Freedom, and Power in Cross-Border Movement
• Chapter 13: What the Experiences of Women Tell Us about the Facilitation of Irregular Migration
• Chapter 14: Enter the Boogeyman: Representations of Human Smuggling in Mainstream Narratives of Migration
• Chapter 15: Ecuadorean Migrant Smuggling: Contemporary Patterns and Dynamics
• Chapter 16: Combatting People Smuggling with the Same Crime? Australia’s “Creative” Anti-smuggling Efforts in Indonesia
• Chapter 17: The Rise of “Border Security”: Chaos, Clutter, and Complexity in a Technological Arms Race
• Chapter 18: Transnational Struggles and the “State”: Biopower and Biopolitics in the Case of a Nigerian Human Trafficking Ring
• Chapter 19: The Transformation of Mexican Migrant Smuggling Networks during the Twenty-First Century
• Chapter 20: In Search of Protection: Irregular Mobility among Palestinian Youth in Gaza
• Contributors
• Index