Human smugglers

Human smugglers are actors facilitating the clandestine crossing of land or sea borders. This support can be provided for ethical reasons but is usually offered for financial gain. Although human smuggling contravenes immigration law and is understood as an irregular practice, it is defined as taking place with the consent of the smuggled individual. However, smugglers may also use deception or violence. Human smuggling is a contested category which has been understood and defined differently over time. While those helping Jews to escape persecution or refugees fleeing communist East Germany during the Cold War have been celebrated as heroes (‘escape agents’), agents supporting people to move from African and Middle Eastern countries to Europe today are often depicted as careless and criminal.

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Human Smuggling from/via North Africa and Turkey to Greece

Authors Thanos Maroukis, Anna Triandafyllidou
Book Title Migrant Smuggling: Irregular Migration from Asia and Africa to Europe
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1 Book Chapter

Illegal migration: What can we know and what can we explain? The case of Germany

Authors F Heckmann
Year 2004
Journal Name International Migration Review
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3 Journal Article

MAPS – Migrants And People Smugglers: A Comparative Study of Smuggling Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Central American corridors

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Year 2017
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6 Project

Irregular migration to the EU and human smuggling in the Mediterranean : the nexus between organized crime and irregular migration

Authors Luigi ACHILLI
Year 2016
Book Title IEMed (ed.), IEMed Mediterranean yearbook 2016 : mobility and refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, IEMed : Barcelona, 2016, pp. 98-103
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7 Book Chapter

Can we put an end to human smuggling?

Authors Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Year 2015
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9 Policy Brief

Crossing the mountain and negotiating the border: Human smuggling in eastern Turkey

Authors Özge Biner
Year 2018
Journal Name New Perspectives on Turkey
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11 Journal Article

From Greece to Europe: Migrant Smuggling from Greece Onwards

Authors Thanos Maroukis, Anna Triandafyllidou
Book Title Migrant Smuggling: Irregular Migration from Asia and Africa to Europe
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17 Book Chapter

Yearbook on Illegal Migration, Human Smuggling and Trafficking in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Published since 2000 with the latest issue available for 2013. It includes a survey and analysis of border management and border apprehension data from 22 States obtained via a questionnaire disseminated to border agencies, Ministries of Interior and other national authorities dealing with issues related to irregular migration. The Yearbook features also a topical Special Module, like for instance, on the Detention of Migrants and Asylum Seekers in 2013.
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19 Data Set

The Southeastern Mediterranean: The Greece-Turkey Irregular Migration System

Authors Thanos Maroukis, Anna Triandafyllidou
Book Title Migrant Smuggling: Irregular Migration from Asia and Africa to Europe
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20 Book Chapter

Migrant Smuggling: A Social Business

Authors Thanos Maroukis, Anna Triandafyllidou
Book Title Migrant Smuggling: Irregular Migration from Asia and Africa to Europe
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21 Book Chapter

Policing humanitarianism : EU policies against human smuggling and their impact on civil society

Authors Sergio CARRERA, Valsamis MITSILEGAS, Jennifer ALLSOPP, ...
Year 2019
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30 Book

Exploitation in Human Trafficking and Smuggling

Authors Paolo Campana, Federico Varese
Year 2016
Journal Name European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
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32 Journal Article

Out of West Africa: Human Smuggling as a Social Enterprise

Authors Stephanie Maher
Year 2018
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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35 Journal Article

Refugee Protections from Below: Smuggling in the Eritrea-Ethiopia Context

Authors Tekalign Ayalew Mengiste
Year 2018
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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36 Journal Article

Irregular Migration and Human Smuggling from Asia and Africa to Europe

Authors Thanos Maroukis, Anna Triandafyllidou
Book Title Migrant Smuggling: Irregular Migration from Asia and Africa to Europe
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41 Book Chapter

The human smuggling industry : nuances and complexities

Authors Luigi ACHILLI
Year 2018
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45 Working Paper

Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives

Authors David Kyle, Rey Koslowski
Year 2011
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48 Book

Constructing a transnational crime: pesticide smuggling in Brazil

Authors Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes
Year 2022
Journal Name CRIME LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Citations (WoS) 1
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52 Journal Article

Human Smuggling Under Risk: Evidence from the Mediterranean

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Since 2007, the number of refugees fleeing conflict and violence has doubled to about 25 million. Mass migration has destabilized the European Union, lead to broad changes in national immigration policies, and triggered the resurgence of far right, xenophobic political parties. Yet little is known about how illicit human smuggling institutions may be driving migration and the subsequent political changes. We leverage granular data on migrant flows across the Mediterranean, coupled with information about sea routes, riots at port cities, and wave conditions, to conduct two studies. We find substantial evidence that migrant flows respond to political and environmental risks as well as a government-led counter-smuggling intervention. These findings clarify drivers of migration and suggest actions that can be taken to mitigate human smuggling.
Year 2019
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53 Report

Human Smuggling from/via Asia and Turkey

Authors Thanos Maroukis, Anna Triandafyllidou
Book Title Migrant Smuggling: Irregular Migration from Asia and Africa to Europe
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62 Book Chapter

The Human Smuggling Industry : Nuances and Complexities

Authors Luigi Achilli
Year 2018
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64 Working Paper

MIGRANT SMUGGLING AND DEMAND OF LABOR

Authors Simon Pedro Izcara Palacios
Year 2017
Journal Name Andamios, Revista de Investigación Social
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67 Journal Article

Bound for the Golden Mountain: The social organization of Chinese alien smuggling

Authors SX Zhang, MS Gaylord
Year 1996
Journal Name Crime, Law and Social Change
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68 Journal Article

Community Dimensions of Smuggling: The Case of Afghanistan and Somalia

Authors Nassim Majidi
Year 2018
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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74 Journal Article

Balkans in the Spotlight: Drug Factories in Bulgaria, 1932-1937

Authors Vladan Jovanovic
Year 2018
Journal Name BALKANISTIC FORUM
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77 Journal Article

Crimes of solidarity in mobility : alternative views on migrant smuggling

Authors Sheldon X. g Zhang, Gabriella E. Sanchez, Luigi Achilli
Year 2018
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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79 Journal Article

Waiting for the smuggler : tales across the border

Authors Luigi ACHILLI
Year 2019
Journal Name [Global Governance Programme], [Cultural Pluralism]
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82 Journal Article

Protection of European seas and borders through the intelligent use of surveillance

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Year 2011
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83 Project

The market for human smuggling into Europe: a macro perspective

Year 2018
Journal Name Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice
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84 Journal Article

The “good” smuggler: The ethics and morals of human smuggling among Syrians

Year 2018
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American academy of political and social science
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88 Journal Article

The "Good" Smuggler: The Ethics and Morals of Human Smuggling among Syrians

Authors Luigi Achilli
Year 2018
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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89 Journal Article

Azerbaijan : readmission, return and reintegration in the socio-political context

Authors Sergey RUMYANSEV
Description
Agreements on readmission directly related to the issues of irregular / illegal1 The first of these is interstate. It deals with the current state of affairs at the official (political) level and the prospects of concluding interstate agreements on readmission. Here, the focus is on how pressing those issues are in the context of political processes in present-day Azerbaijan. and return migration should be considered while placing the analytical focus on several aspects: The second is the problem of irregular (illegal) migration from Azerbaijan and associated problems of readmission and return migration. Finally, the third is the problem of irregular / illegal migration to Azerbaijan.
Year 2013
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91 Report

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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93 Journal Article

Modeling migrant smuggling: Testing descriptive types against recent findings

Authors Veronika Bilger
Year 2018
Journal Name New Perspectives on Turkey
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94 Journal Article

Eastern Partnership Risk Analysis Network Quarterly Report (EaP-RAN)

Description
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) Quarterly statistical overview is focused on quarterly developments for the seven key indicators of irregular migration: (1) detections of illegal border-crossing between BCPs; (2) detections of illegal border-crossing at BCPs; (3) refusals of entry; (4) detections of illegal stay; (5) asylum applications; (6) detections of facilitators; and (7) detections of fraudulent documents.
Year 2016
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95 Data Set

Temporary foreign work permits: Honing the tools to defeat human smuggling

Authors Emmanuelle Auriol, Alice Mesnard, Tiffanie Perrault
Year 2023
Journal Name European Economic Review
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96 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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98 Book Chapter

Policing the mobility society : the effects of EU-anti-migrant smuggling policies on humanitarianism

Authors Sergio CARRERA, Jennifer ALLSOPP, Lina VOSYLIUTE
Year 2018
Journal Name International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
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100 Journal Article
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