Defining human smuggling in migration research : an appraisal and critique

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migration governance and infrastructure
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Irregular migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Media representations of migration

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other