How the Box Became Black: Brokers and the Creation of the Free Migrant

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions

• Migration forms

  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

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

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • (Sexual) Exploitation

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Border control