Migrant Smuggling: Irregular Migration from Asia and Africa to Europe

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • ICT facilitating travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Media representations of migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration

• Governance processes

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

Geographies

• Scope

  • Continental
  • International