Critical Perspectives on Clandestine Migration Facilitation: An Overview of Migrant Smuggling Research

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Refugees
  • Asylum seekers
  • Internal displacement
  • Transnational migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Media representations of migration
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Crime

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility
  • Asylum regimes

• Governance processes

  • Criminalisation
  • Outsourcing to private actors
  • Extraterritorialisation (multi- and bi-national)

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National