Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration

Commercial actors in travel and migration are the private entities that facilitate and mediate migration. The specific characteristic of these actors is that their actions are based on financial rather than altruistic motives. Therefore, they request a remuneration for their services. This category of actors includes service providers such as travel agencies, labour recruitment agencies, visa brokers, marriage agencies, financial services firms, employers of transit migrants, pre-departure health assessment centers, language schools providing language certificates, au-pair or nanny agencies, student recruitment agencies etc. Intermediaries can be active in different fields of migration such as work migration, marriage migration or student mobility. It is difficult to draw a clear line between regular and irregular actors. While intermediaries usually act within the limits of the law, some actors find themselves in a semi-regular space, providing both regular and irregular services.

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Psychological Well-Being and Brokerage in Friendship Networks of Young Swedes

Authors Gerald Mollenhorst, Christofer Edling, Jens Rydgren
Year 2015
Journal Name Social Indicators Research
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3 Journal Article

Yet another black box: brokering agencies in the evolving market for live-in migrant care work in Austria and Germany

Authors Simone Leiber, Verena Rossow, August Oesterle, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARE AND CARING
Citations (WoS) 9
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7 Journal Article

Cultural brokerage: Creating linkages between voices of lifeworld and medicine in cross-cultural clinical settings

Authors Ming-Cheng Miriam Lo
Year 2010
Journal Name Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
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9 Journal Article

Foreign exchange markets with Last Look

Authors Alvaro Cartea, Sebastian Jaimungal, Jamie Walton
Year 2019
Journal Name MATHEMATICS AND FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
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12 Journal Article

Portrait of a human smuggler : race, class, and gender among facilitators of irregular migration on the US – Mexico border

Authors Gabriella SANCHEZ
Year 2018
Book Title [Migration Policy Centre]
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13 Book Chapter

Brokerage from within: A conceptual framework

Authors Birgit Brauechler, Kathrin Knodel, Ute Roeschenthaler
Year 2021
Journal Name CULTURAL DYNAMICS
Citations (WoS) 14
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17 Journal Article

Brokerage-based attack on real world temporal networks

Authors Souvik Sur, Niloy Ganguly, Animesh Mukherjee
Year 2016
Journal Name Network Science
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22 Journal Article

State‐mediated Brokerage System in China's Self‐funded Study Abroad Market

Year 2018
Journal Name International Migration
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23 Journal Article

Communitarian tourism - Hosts and mediators in Peru

Authors Elayne Zorn, Linda Clare Farthing
Year 2007
Journal Name Annals of Tourism Research
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29 Journal Article

Research Contexts

Authors Danièle Joly, James A. Beckford, Farhad Khosrokhavar
Book Title Muslims in Prison
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30 Book Chapter

Language Brokering Among Mexican-Immigrant Families in the Midwest

Authors Alejandro Morales, Oksana F. Yakushko, Antonio J. Castro
Year 2012
Journal Name The Counseling Psychologist
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33 Journal Article

Bilingual communicators within the health care setting

Authors M Johnson, C Noble, C Matthews, ...
Year 1999
Journal Name Qualitative Health Research
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37 Journal Article

Overcoming and Reproducing Inequalities: Mediated Migration in the “Global South”

Authors Katharine Jones, Heila Sha, Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan
Year 2024
Book Title The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality
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45 Book Chapter

Historicizing Mobility: Coyoterismo in the Indigenous Ecuadorian Migration Industry

Authors Victoria Stone-Cadena, Soledad Alvarez Velasco
Year 2018
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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54 Journal Article

The Globalization of Tertiary Education and Intra-Asian Student Mobility: Mainland Chinese Student Mobility to Malaysia

Authors Diana Wong, Ooi Pei Wen
Year 2013
Journal Name Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
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63 Journal Article

Conceptualizing the migration industry

Year 2013
Book Title In The migration industry and the commercialization of international migration
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65 Book Chapter

Conceptualizing the Migration Industry

Authors Ruben Hernandez-Leon
Year 2013
Book Title The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration
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67 Book Chapter

A SEMANTICALLY-ENHANCED MARKETPLACE OF INTEROPERABLE PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE OFFERINGS FOR THE DEPLOYMENT AND MIGRATION OF BUSINESS APPLICATIONS OF SMEs

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Year 2013
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69 Project

Politics of difference: Child marriage and prestige consumption among the Romanian Gabor Roma – with a special focus on the post-socialist transformation

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Year 2015
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71 Project

States and Migration Industries in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea

Authors Kristin SURAK
Year 2011
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72 Working Paper

Contested Ground: Network Governance in Australia's Migration Industry

Year 2018
Journal Name International Migration
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74 Journal Article

Navigating Migrant Trajectories through Private Actors

Authors Anja K. Franck, Emanuelle Brandström Arellano, Joseph Trawicki Anderson
Year 2018
Journal Name European Journal of East Asian Studies
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82 Journal Article

Migration Industry in Nigeria: The Cartels, the Capital and the Oaths

Authors Olawale Lawal
Year 2020
Journal Name THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL STUDIES
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83 Journal Article

Public officials and the migration industry in Guatemala: Greasing the wheels of a corrupt machine

Year 2013
Book Title The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration
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85 Book Chapter

ACTORES NO ESTATALES EN EL CONTROL DE LA INMIGRACION IRREGULAR.UNA APROXIMACION A LA "MIGRATION INDUSTRY" EN ESPAÑA

Principal investigator Ana María López Sala (Principal Investigator)
Year 2015
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86 Project

Migration Industries: A Comparison of the Ecuador-US and Ecuador-Spain Cases

Authors David J. KYLE, Rachel GOLDSTEIN
Description
There has been growing attention recently in what has been labeled alternatively the “migration industry,” the business of migration, or migration merchants. This paper describes two of the most significant cases of migration industries facilitating large-scale labor migrations from Ecuador to first, New York City and, then, Spain. We compare the organization and impact of these two separate migration industries and their ability to impact key features of Ecuadorians’ labor mobility and settlement at these two destinations. We discuss the historical context of the sending regions and the policies of the destination states to better understand the conditions under which such migration industries can flourish. We argue for a robust conception of migration industries, comprised of a diverse set of formal and informal economic activities, increasingly able to shape migration patterns and outcomes.
Year 2011
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89 Report

Melilla, the border as social fabric of a city

Authors Nina SAHRAOUI
Year 2018
Book Title Jayne HOWELL, Deborah R. ALTAMIRANO, Faedah M. TOTAH and Fethi KELES (eds), Porous borders, invisible boundaries? Ethnographic perspectives on the vicissitudes of contemporary migration. A publication of the Committee on Refugees and Immigrants, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2018, pp. 99-104
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93 Book Chapter

Seeing slavery in seafood supply chains

Authors Katrina Nakamura, Ganapathiraju Pramod, Lori Bishop, ...
Year 2018
Journal Name SCIENCE ADVANCES
Citations (WoS) 2
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95 Journal Article

The migration industries. A new perspective in the analysis of international migration?

Authors Ana Lopez-Sala
Year 2020
Journal Name EMPIRIA
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97 Journal Article
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