Thematic Focus: EU Response to Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Beyond Slavery (openDemocracy, May 2015) [access]
- New blog series on "trafficking, smuggling and migration, arguing that mobility is central to life and that state restrictions on movement are the true threat to human wellbeing."  Read the first post.

EU Anti-trafficking Policies: From Migration and Crime Control to Prevention and Protection, Policy Brief, no. 2015/09 (Migration Policy Centre, 2015) [text]

The EU’s Planned War on Smugglers (Statewatch, May 2015) [text via Migrants at Sea]
- See also text of the EU plan and EU press release.

"Migrant Crisis: Smuggling or Trafficking? Politicians Don't Seem to Know," The Guardian, 22 April 2015 [text]

The Vital Difference between Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling (openDemocracy, Nov. 2014) [text]

The War on Migrants and Refugees: Has the ‘Never Again’ Imperative Been Forgotten? (Essays on Migration and Politics Blog, May 2015) [text]

WikiLeaks Releases Classified Documents Describing EU Plans For Military Strikes Against Libyan Migrant Smugglers (Migrants at Sea, May 2015) [text]

Will the EU Migration Agenda (at Last) Propose to Update the EU Legislation on Smuggling? (Free Group Blog, May 2015) [text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Europe (26 May 2015)

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