Completely revised and updated: an essential edited collection of
essays on global human smuggling.
Migrant smuggling is now more entrenched than ever in many regions
around the world, with efforts to combat it both largely unsuccessful
and often counterproductive. In Global Human Smuggling, editors Luigi
Achilli and David Kyle bring together up-to-date contributions from a
wide array of interdisciplinary scholars on the most important issues
related to this global phenomenon.
Contributors explore human smuggling in several nuanced forms across
diverse regions, examining its deep historical, social, economic, and
cultural roots as well as its broad political consequences. This volume
represents a cutting-edge chronicle of the state of human smuggling
today, its many complexities not easily reduced to simple moral
narratives, and how researchers uncover the lives it affects, both
directly and indirectly. Just as migrants cross borders for a variety of
reasons, many of those involved in migrant smuggling activities have an
equally diverse set of motivations and organizations, ranging from those
helping people escape persecution and violence to transnational criminal
syndicates preying on the vulnerabilities of migrants attempting to
leave their countries.
Building on the pioneering work of its previous two editions, this new
volume introduces contributions organized by the themes of control,
complexity, and creativity. Spanning issues around the world, the essays
in this essential collection cover topics such as global migrant
smuggling networks, government responses, multinational initiatives
against human trafficking for sexual exploitation, representations of
human smuggling in mainstream narratives of migration, and more. With
nineteen new contributors, Global Human Smuggling represents the
progress of human smuggling research on every continent and offers a
rare, research-based, conceptual framework to the study of this critical
global issue.
