Reframing migrant smuggling as a form of knowledge : the view from the US-Mexico border

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Asylum seekers
  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Internal displacement
  • Transnational migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Return 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

  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration
  • Migrant networks

• Legal-political consequences

  • Crime

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Return policies
  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global

• UN Countries

  • Mexico