Migration as a Business: The Case of Trafficking

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

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

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Spatial consequences

• Legal-political consequences

  • Crime

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Inter-governmental and international organisations
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • International